{"id":3639,"date":"2012-09-17T03:51:45","date_gmt":"2012-09-17T03:51:45","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/www.cloudcomputing-news.net\/news\/2012\/sep\/17\/you-cant-outsource-the-risk-of-cloud-storage\/"},"modified":"2012-09-17T03:51:45","modified_gmt":"2012-09-17T03:51:45","slug":"you-cant-outsource-the-risk-of-cloud-storage","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/icloud.pe\/blog\/you-cant-outsource-the-risk-of-cloud-storage\/","title":{"rendered":"You can\u2019t outsource the risk of cloud storage"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>Now that could computing has become a mainstream option for secure storage, the few who still publicly question its security are having a harder time finding an audience.<\/p>\n<p>Corporate accountants and executives love any idea that saves money, and their aversion to risk dwindles each time another big company jumps on the cloud bandwagon.<\/p>\n<p>And there are plenty of IT managers who are happy to pass on the responsibility of maintaining servers for data backups if the executive team is open to a different solution.<\/p>\n<p>The big drawback to cloud computing, at least in my opinion, is that you can only outsource responsibility to a certain level before the risk becomes intolerable.<\/p>\n<p>And the question that very few corporate leaders are asking is: what happens when a failure occurs?<\/p>\n<p>In this modern era where companies spend endless resources on consultants and lawyers to pinpoint blame, a case of &ldquo;cloud collapse &#8230;<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Now that could computing has become a mainstream option for secure storage, the few who still publicly question its security are having a harder time finding an audience.<br \/>\nCorporate accountants and executives love any idea that saves money, and their av&#8230;<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":9,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"closed","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-3639","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/icloud.pe\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/3639","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/icloud.pe\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/icloud.pe\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/icloud.pe\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/9"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/icloud.pe\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=3639"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/icloud.pe\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/3639\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/icloud.pe\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=3639"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/icloud.pe\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=3639"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/icloud.pe\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=3639"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}