Mar 26, 2009
Understanding the risks of cloud computing
Web-based tools such as Google Docs and Flickr can be very useful and convenient, but they’re not the safest place for your data
There are two kinds of risks in putting your data online. One is that you can never be quite sure who has access to your information once it has migrated beyond the hard drives and backup storage devices in your home. The other risk is that the information, and sometimes the applications you need to make use of it, may be available only when you are connected to the Internet and the service is up and running. BusinessWeek reports it here.
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