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Is the Cloud a Good Thing

Dec
5
2008

Candle at the Flying Scotsman, Mt Lawley, Perth

Cloud computing is all the buzz at the moment, another trendy topic, but it isn’t that new in relative terms, either is the SaaS models, having grown out of the ASP model of the last century.

But you know despite being immersed in all this web “stuff” from day to day,  I just have this nagging feeling about the information we put out in the cloud. Is it really that safe!

At the Edge of Web Conference colleague Stephen Collins in his Enterprise 2.0 – A New Age of Aquarius? talk touched on the social aspect of SaaS and that most of his software that he uses is in the cloud. Leaving very little in terms of desktop software.