[Info-vax] IE8 got me too :-( Sorry Jeff.

[Jan-Erik Soderholm]

Richard B. Gilbert wrote:
> Arne Vajhøj wrote:
>> On 20-01-2010 09:39, AEF wrote:
>>> On Jan 18, 10:00 am, billg... at cs.uofs.edu (Bill Gunshannon) wrote:
>>>> I would prefer to see the corresponence and data that
>>>> my business relied on to remain under my control.
>>>
>>> We agree! I couldn't believe it when I first hear of putting your
>>> business's data in the "cloud".
>>
>> Lots of companies are outsourcing operations.
>>
>> The benefit by cloud over traditional outsourcing is that
>> you pay for usage - you can have 2 CPU's this week,
>> 25 CPU's next week and 7 CPU's the week after - and you only
>> pay for actual usage.
>>
>> Sure you can not hop into an airplane, fly to India, be shown
>> a computer room and have somebody point to a rack and say "THAT
>> is your system", but that is not a real problem.
>>
>> (making applications run functionally and secure in cloud context
>> do raise some technical problems that need to be solved)
>>
>> Arne
> 
> But where is the customer's data and who is making backups?  Who, 
> besides you, has access to your data?

I saw one backup solution where you simply make a "backup copy"
on *another* cloud. A bit like an /image backup on another disk,
in the old world... :-)

> 
> I'll keep my data on my own disks thanks!
> 
> I know it's hopelessly old fashioned but so am I!
>