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Straps and brackets cost too much. We pay one tech to find cables

It's a relative proposal. The need for a guy and a server has waned as cloud computing becomes the viable option for a small company. Sure you can drop in a NAS if you know even the smallest thing about computers and setup email with any of many cloud providers. But is that going to work when the office is 10 executives instead of 10 social media marketers?

The life of the cloud I think is what is exaggerated. The massive cost reduction the providers are seeing in providing the distributed data are due in part to offshoring and offhosting. A great deal of firms really can't bear that, especially with the US reaching further into data banks without warrants looking for whatever activity might suit them. The pullback is inevitable - its only a question of when.

Either cloud will start to look less attractive or IT firms will build better scaled systems. Usually when the hour looks bleakest is when the opposite happens. I would keep my eye out for local infrastructure changes that bring IT back in-house and delegate cloud computing to insensitive data and socially interactive applications. Having 200 people from a city I never heard of in a country I've never visited be in charge of all my material assets is a problem.

At least with the IT guy you know where you stand, and who's looking.

It's essential to have some help from the outside during your IT admin vacation

A well thought out idea like this is exactly what it admins avoid, unfortunately.

It's essential to have some help from the outside during your IT admin vacation

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