Thursday, July 10, 2008

Re: Why won't people use clouds: The grey part of the silver lining

Hi Jim,

Thanks for replying.

On Jul 9, 9:05 pm, "Jim Peters" wrote:
> Geez, I just don't get this ... the guys I work with would never consider
> putting data into the hands of a 3rd party, no matter who the 3rd party was.

Interesting. Do these guys prefer to colo their servers? Or do they
host from within a building/location that they physically control,
100%?

> I for one cannot imagine ever trusting Google to not be reading my email,
> uninteresting as that would be ...

But even so, you still use Gmail -- is that a case where the risks
associated with the cloud are outweighed by the benefits?


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