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<atom:link href="http://adage.com/article/digitalnext/digital-consumer-s-curiosity-cloud-computing/140021/#comments" rel="self" type="application/rss+xml" /><title><![CDATA[Comments on: Judy Consumer's Head Is in the Clouds]]></title>
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<description><![CDATA[Judy Consumer, in this case, a mom who does freelance sports photography, asked me the other day, "I wonder what all this talk about computing in the clouds is about? I have so much footage that I need to access and I do it today with external drives. Managing these external drives is driving me nuts." That was the third time I had heard that type of question in about two weeks. It was hard not to take notice.]]></description>
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<title><![CDATA[By: Howie G]]></title>
<link>http://adage.com/article/digitalnext/digital-consumer-s-curiosity-cloud-computing/140021/#comments-51002</link>
<description><![CDATA[There is a big problem with the cloud. You still need a terrestrial backup. What happens if you upload all your video to a You Tube and then they go bust and shut down. I used to have a massive Yahoo Photos website and when they closed down it was ridiculously tedious to re-upload everything so I didn&#039;t. To make the cloud a reliable play you need a method of switching what cloud you host your information on easily, seamlessly, and trouble free.]]></description>
<pubDate>Mon, 02 Nov 2009 13:30 EST</pubDate>
<author>Howie G</author>
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<title><![CDATA[By: Bill Fallon]]></title>
<link>http://adage.com/article/digitalnext/digital-consumer-s-curiosity-cloud-computing/140021/#comments-50801</link>
<description><![CDATA[Having a high-speed Internet connection opens up lots of possibilities for both business and consumer services &quot;in the cloud,&quot; particularly those relating to storage, archiving, etc. Much the same way as TiVo/DVR&#039;s relieved people of having to make sure the &quot;Tape was in the machine&quot; to record a TV show, you could easily see how an application running in the background on your PC and sending files to the cloud for storage could easily solve the &quot;regularly backing up is a pain in the neck&quot; problem that afflicts most PC users.

On the dark side of things, putting your data someplace else makes it less secure than the pile of backup CD&#039;s or DVD&#039;s in your basement - in two ways. First, what do you really know about the company that&#039;s holding onto your stuff - what if they go out of business, have a catastrophic outage, etc. When they retire a disk array do they wipe it clean or are your documents still on it, etc. A member of our community produced this short video on questions to ask your cloud services provider. http://www.comodovision.com/small-business/security-questions-for-your-cloud-services-provider/

The other is, what if they get hacked? While you may be asking yourself why would any hacker care about my PC backup, consider that the key enabler of the social engineering attacks we&#039;re now hearing about just about daily is the lowly address book.

Bottom line is that you need to think about who you&#039;re doing business with in this regard in the same way you might think about who&#039;s safe deposit box you&#039;re going to put your physical world valuables in. If a deli offered sandwiches and safe deposit boxes you probably wouldn&#039;t do it. Trouble is on the Internet, it&#039;s not always easy to tell who&#039;s a deli and who&#039;s (really) a bank.]]></description>
<pubDate>Thu, 29 Oct 2009 17:52 EDT</pubDate>
<author>Bill Fallon</author>
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<title><![CDATA[By: Robert Barnett]]></title>
<link>http://adage.com/article/digitalnext/digital-consumer-s-curiosity-cloud-computing/140021/#comments-50790</link>
<description><![CDATA[I think the term cloud computing is too loosely used and people do not know what it means really. 

This &quot;Judy Consumer&quot; might only need an online backup service rather than a cloud service. I dont&#039; know if cloud computing is ready for prime time this time around...]]></description>
<pubDate>Thu, 29 Oct 2009 16:09 EDT</pubDate>
<author>Robert Barnett</author>
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<title><![CDATA[By: Nicholas sherm]]></title>
<link>http://adage.com/article/digitalnext/digital-consumer-s-curiosity-cloud-computing/140021/#comments-50758</link>
<description><![CDATA[We provide network and support services for small companies and I can tell you that even the very small business are looking for a higher level of technology solutions that I thought possible. 

If I imagine how this trickles down to end users - I think Judy is right. Consumers are getting smarter and braver about carving out the internet they want for themslves.]]></description>
<pubDate>Thu, 29 Oct 2009 14:24 EDT</pubDate>
<author>Nicholas sherm</author>
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<title><![CDATA[By: JAMES KOVARIK]]></title>
<link>http://adage.com/article/digitalnext/digital-consumer-s-curiosity-cloud-computing/140021/#comments-50756</link>
<description><![CDATA[Always great to read an article like this right after you&#039;ve just experienced the need. My wife recently expressed concern about losing her enourmouse iTunes collection as her laptop started acting up. I found a solution at dropbox.com that has a consumer solution that I&#039;m considering. The site appears to be growing quick nicely. I agree with Judy that this is going to be a significant consumer trend.]]></description>
<pubDate>Thu, 29 Oct 2009 14:19 EDT</pubDate>
<author>JAMES KOVARIK</author>
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<title><![CDATA[By: PR 4SEO]]></title>
<link>http://adage.com/article/digitalnext/digital-consumer-s-curiosity-cloud-computing/140021/#comments-50749</link>
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<pubDate>Thu, 29 Oct 2009 13:47 EDT</pubDate>
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<title><![CDATA[By: Wendy Cutting]]></title>
<link>http://adage.com/article/digitalnext/digital-consumer-s-curiosity-cloud-computing/140021/#comments-50748</link>
<description><![CDATA[Depending on your SaaS service providers there are different levels of security. Whenever you have data floating in the cloud it is vulnerable. We&#039;ve had this issue in every industry, Finance being one of them but all banks now enable you to bank online.

Cloud or SaaS is the way of the future. Desktop apps will be a way of the future. We do have hurdles right now that will continually be removed such as downtime, security, etc. But, the cost to doing business in the Cloud probably out ways the risk for most people.

I&#039;m heavily involved with SaaS discussions with several developers around the country. We are all seeing a shift even in the large companies with huge IT groups looking to outsource to SaaS if there is an app that fills the requirements. In this time of economic downturn business is lean but still needs to compete and compete with fewer employees. That is why moving out of old expensive IT ways and into SaaS model is moving front and center. SaaS has been around a long time and is gaining market momentum thanks to our economy and proven great online apps such as Google, Facebook, Flickr, etc.]]></description>
<pubDate>Thu, 29 Oct 2009 13:47 EDT</pubDate>
<author>Wendy Cutting</author>
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<title><![CDATA[By: SEDEF ONDER]]></title>
<link>http://adage.com/article/digitalnext/digital-consumer-s-curiosity-cloud-computing/140021/#comments-50745</link>
<description><![CDATA[The recent data loss crisis by Microsoft&#039;s Danger servers affected T-Mobile Sidekick phone users and was significant enough to cause T-Mobile to suspend all phone sales of its Sidekick models.

Customers actually filed lawsuits alleging MSFT and its subsidiary Danger failed to make good on promises that the service would securely and safely back up users data.

As of last week, Microsoft&#039;s Danger team continues to work round-the-clock to help customers restore data, in the form of contacts and photos. While the disaster was averted in part, Microsoft (and unfortunately T-Mobile) was left with egg on its face.

As an Apple MobileMe user of more than a year, I know from the spotty-at-best service I get simply from trying to sync up my calendars on three devices that I won&#039;t rely on &quot;the cloud&quot; to store any valuable personal data. I trust my Time Machine backups (hourly and daily) on external drives -- and which recently helped me recover seamlessly from a hard drive crash in my MacBook PRO.

There is indeed a dark lining around cloud computing. Buyer beware at best.]]></description>
<pubDate>Thu, 29 Oct 2009 13:31 EDT</pubDate>
<author>SEDEF ONDER</author>
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<title><![CDATA[By: Melissa Roberts]]></title>
<link>http://adage.com/article/digitalnext/digital-consumer-s-curiosity-cloud-computing/140021/#comments-50732</link>
<description><![CDATA[Cloud computing has been around for a long time and it was mostly a B2B play. I do not see anything to suggest that this time around cloud computing will gain better penetration, especially amoung consumers. The significant security issues loom large.]]></description>
<pubDate>Thu, 29 Oct 2009 11:38 EDT</pubDate>
<author>Melissa Roberts</author>
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