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An article by David Braue posted on the stuff.co.nz website.
This article provides insight into certain risks associated with using a cloud computing services provider.
The article states, "Web-based services like Apple's iCloud; file-sharing site DropBox; Adobe's Photoshop Express; Microsoft's new Office 365 apps and Windows Live services; photo-sharing sites like Facebook, Yahoo's Flickr and Smugmug; and Google Docs and related apps - these, and hundreds of other online services, are built around the idea that the software providers will look after your data for you, forever.
Since they promise to look after that data, you assume they're backing it up and will always make it available to you - but what if they don't, or can't? What if, as in the case of file-sharing site Megaupload, they are unexpectedly closed down. Or, as now-defunct hosting provider Distribute.IT found out last year in dramatic style, what if they're hacked, data protection measures fall over, and countless gigabytes of crucial customer data is lost?" Links are provided in the article to the examples referenced in the article.
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