Cloud storage is the storing of data using web facilities. Google docs is an example of cloud storage facility used to store documents. However these facilities have drawn questions as to whether they are safe to store data without any manipulation by outside intruders.
Some of the questions are :
- Should Government be allowed to access these storage facilities without permission of the onwer of the data?
- What type of data should be stored using cloud storage?
- Is this data safe from felony computer crimes?
All these questions are in the minds of potential cloud storage users.
I will start with the advantages of cloud storage:
- Workers can access business documents anytime ans anywhere.
- The users can increase or decrease the use of the computing resources and services easily and flexibley.
But are these advantages enough to trust cloud storage? Take a look at these cases that took place in 2008:
In February 2008 Amazon S3 suffered two outages. In August of that same year G-mail was not available twice for two hours, RIM's blackberry service was out for 18 hours. From my point of view cloud storage can not give a perfect service but it is by far better than on site storage.
No storage facility can guarantee 100% perfection because one way or another way computer hackers are going to find a way around.
Let me know what you think by posting you comments on my site.
Acknowledgements:Kim, W.(n.d.).Cloud Computing: Today and Tomorrow. South korea: Sungkyunkwan University.
I think if people are storing files on free cloud storage services like yahoo then the files shouldn't be private one's.They should be files that you wouldn't mind anyone seeing.Because if government wanted to view your files then they would only have to seek permission from the cloud storage service provider.So the best way to store files on cloud storage especially for companies is to store files on their own network because if the government wanted to view your files they would have to ask you for permission.And if the data is stored on a network it is much safer because it may be a lot harder to get access to a network depending on the security measures set in place.
ReplyDeleteI don't think is the proper thing for a business man t be saving his documents on line without having any back up. It is really nice to be saving documents in such storage but we have to consider the type of message to be saved on cloud storage. But looking at my own point of view I suggest that this thing so "cloud storage" shouldn't be abolished and people should use at their own risk.
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