You can’t outsource the risk of cloud storage

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.

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.

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.

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.

And the question that very few corporate leaders are asking is: what happens when a failure occurs?

In this modern era where companies spend endless resources on consultants and lawyers to pinpoint blame, a case of “cloud collapse …