Great points across the board... AND
I agree with every point made here but I would not stop at iCloud. I really like iCloud or Sky drive as a personal service. Personally I use Skydrive for my personal storage needs (I'm a Windows guy)...
View ArticleNo GoDaddy
I would not host anything on GoDaddy after hearing numerous reports of them making it difficult to migrate to another service should you ever want to leave.
View ArticleRead the small print
Before you put your business data onto a cloud service (particularly a 'home user' style one) read the small print VERY CAREFULLY on the service. You don't want to have a nasty surprise bite you AFTER...
View ArticleNot just difficult to leave
With GoDaddy you also have to wonder about the way they support the US government/law enforcement/judicial system with regards to investigations and shutdowns of domains. There's been a number of cases...
View ArticleYeah, what stoneyh said.
The points raised aren't restricted to Apple's services. There are plenty of consumer-oriented cloud services that are equally ill-suited for business use. I wouldn't trust business data to any free...
View ArticleCloud, any cloud not secure enough
The biggest security risk to any company is the employees, not hackers or viruses or competing businesses (or China) but your employees. That is why we do security clearances both before hiring and...
View ArticleCloud is 'mutton dressed as lamb', just old mainframes
Cloud is just a fancy name for a mainframe server joined to you by Broadband, ADSL, DSL, 'Leased Line' etc to your device. It's all been done before and is the reason people changed to keeping data and...
View ArticleiCloud is hosted on a Microsoft product - Azure - Ha! LOL
Apple has finally given up on trying to get enterprise right. Anyone who has worked with MobileMe realizes how messed up Apple is in the enterprise realm. It is amazing that the most "valuable" company...
View ArticleAnd it "all depends"
If the business data is the Coca-Cola formula, then perhaps putting it online is not a good idea, while if the cloud data is stuff that's publicly available anyway, than why not?A bigger issue is that...
View ArticleOf course Bradley Manning had a security clearance :)
Vetting employees is a good idea, but you have to build controls to monitor and detect when your sensitive data is accessed, and when it goes out the door. There are lots of huge issues that can arise...
View ArticleZimbra stands up to comparison
Businesses and enterprise organizations needing to synchronize email and calendars will be much better served by Zimbra Exchange server. There are viable alternatives to Exchange which are also worthy...
View ArticleVery True and Look at the Cloud Provider
There is a reason other than the article states on why more and more big and security conscious businesses are avoiding the iCloud. I know at my work, the iCloud is severely restricted and Siri is not...
View ArticleTried Zimbra. What other options are there?
What other Exchange alternatives are there other than Zimbra? Tried it and ended up with usability issues with my Outlook worshippers.
View ArticleAn awesome consumer tool?
I cannot agree on that right now, simply because of the amount of calls I receive from clients where it just simply doesn't work or does not sync files properly. After a few more years and it's...
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