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Scary stuff?
Guys, the article and the comments are a very good reading this morning 
Some comment that IT guys are arrogant and dismiss the fact that the changes are near and I partially agree to that, but what happens when you give way to users and allow them to use their equipment in the corporate world, how quickly we will have data leakage to the outside world after a child installs a free software on the ipad/android device and that device will be owned by the malicious person without the owner even realising what is happening.
Now, on to the cloud topic. To this day it eludes me the legality issue of keeping your data on the cloud, where is your data stored? India, Africa, China, Russia, Latvia ( I could go on and on), what happens when the compliance audit finds out that the data should have been stored anywhere else but the country you are operating in? Who is to blame the cloud provider or the company that moved to the cloud? I would argue that the IT geek era is gone, but what I see is the much bigger scale outsourcing, although saying this the companies for some reason bring the services in-house after a while and then end up paying more money to source the in-house team. And if someone will correct me wrong I will be much appreciative.
Box.net?!?! I don't even know where to begin here. To me personally the cloud document sharing solutions like box.net and dropbox are users heaven to be more free and more flexible, but are we absolutely confident that it is safe. By the way I am in no position to question the safety protocols and internal processes of any those providers, I am sure they are sound and closely monitored.
And for closing statement: The change is coming, the natural reaction is negative, that is how human being operate, but to those who say that IT geeks will disappear I say what will happen when IT geeks will be needed back again?
Some comment that IT guys are arrogant and dismiss the fact that the changes are near and I partially agree to that, but what happens when you give way to users and allow them to use their equipment in the corporate world, how quickly we will have data leakage to the outside world after a child installs a free software on the ipad/android device and that device will be owned by the malicious person without the owner even realising what is happening.
Now, on to the cloud topic. To this day it eludes me the legality issue of keeping your data on the cloud, where is your data stored? India, Africa, China, Russia, Latvia ( I could go on and on), what happens when the compliance audit finds out that the data should have been stored anywhere else but the country you are operating in? Who is to blame the cloud provider or the company that moved to the cloud? I would argue that the IT geek era is gone, but what I see is the much bigger scale outsourcing, although saying this the companies for some reason bring the services in-house after a while and then end up paying more money to source the in-house team. And if someone will correct me wrong I will be much appreciative.
Box.net?!?! I don't even know where to begin here. To me personally the cloud document sharing solutions like box.net and dropbox are users heaven to be more free and more flexible, but are we absolutely confident that it is safe. By the way I am in no position to question the safety protocols and internal processes of any those providers, I am sure they are sound and closely monitored.
And for closing statement: The change is coming, the natural reaction is negative, that is how human being operate, but to those who say that IT geeks will disappear I say what will happen when IT geeks will be needed back again?
Posted by mariulia@...
17th May 2012
