(Say your cloud provider goes out of business. What guarantee do you have they'll really wipe all the hard drives and backups holding your data when they liquidate all their equipment?) Furthermore, as the cloud gets more popular, I think you'll see more instances of outages/downtime to go with it. Whether it's really warranted or not, businesses are going to get nervous when the execs read about the latest outage someplace, and start asking what their I.T. departments are doing to ensure it doesn't impact them.
What guarantee do I have the my IT staff will wipe the hard drive of the desktop/laptop/server that we throw away once they are broken or obsolete?
Most people on here are giving examples of really high level IT job where industry certification is required (online banking, medical, etc). They don't seem to take into account the hundreds of thousands of companies with small IT department that are full of incompetent and unprofessional people. In those companies, going to the cloud and getting rid of the little fat guy, the one that gives attitude to anybody that calls because it takes him away from his facebook or online games, is an awesome thing.
As for outages, same thing applies. I don't know any company that has 0 downtime EVER. The cloud will be down sometime, just like my IT department managed servers.
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(Say your cloud provider goes out of business. What guarantee do you have they'll really wipe all the hard drives and backups holding your data when they liquidate all their equipment?) Furthermore, as the cloud gets more popular, I think you'll see more instances of outages/downtime to go with it. Whether it's really warranted or not, businesses are going to get nervous when the execs read about the latest outage someplace, and start asking what their I.T. departments are doing to ensure it doesn't impact them.
What guarantee do I have the my IT staff will wipe the hard drive of the desktop/laptop/server that we throw away once they are broken or obsolete? Most people on here are giving examples of really high level IT job where industry certification is required (online banking, medical, etc). They don't seem to take into account the hundreds of thousands of companies with small IT department that are full of incompetent and unprofessional people. In those companies, going to the cloud and getting rid of the little fat guy, the one that gives attitude to anybody that calls because it takes him away from his facebook or online games, is an awesome thing. As for outages, same thing applies. I don't know any company that has 0 downtime EVER. The cloud will be down sometime, just like my IT department managed servers.