Today we have more personal information on our cell phone than our grandparents could fit in their safe deposit box. When it comes to our business, the servers located at our workplace contain everything, and I mean everything, about our business including tax returns, accounting data,
What is The Cloud anyway? It doesn’t sound very secure. Clouds are cute and fluffy and float around. They are barely even solid. You fly through them in
Here are some pictures of what many small business servers look like:
And that is if you are lucky! You might be more familiar with this:
Now….I want you to sit back, take a moment and look at a couple of the potential places your crucial, all important data is kept if you move to the cloud. As you watch the following video, think about the times you have had to “reboot” your server, or the electricity went out in your building.
As opposed to your server closet, this is the design behind the place that houses some of the data in the cloud:
Here is another quick video on one of Microsoft’s Data Centers:
At the end of the day, it is fully understandable why people are nervous about moving their critical business systems into the cloud, but their couldn’t be a safer place. As a matter of fact, even if you store you data in the cloud, the most unsafe place it would reside is on the computer sitting on your desk.