Comments on: Argument against the Cloud or Why you don’t want your data on somebody else’s server http://foliovision.com/2010/01/argument-against-the-cloud-your-data Making the web work for you Sat, 18 May 2013 14:16:05 +0000 hourly 1 http://wordpress.org/?v=3.5.1 Foliovisionhttp://foliovision.com/site/wp-content/themes/foliovision/images/foliovision-logo-380.gifhttp://foliovision.com24066Making the web work for you By: alec http://foliovision.com/2010/01/argument-against-the-cloud-your-data#comment-23363 alec Sun, 07 Feb 2010 01:45:04 +0000 http://foliovision.com/2010/01/03/argument-against-the-cloud-your-data#comment-23363 In general, simple man is right. The larger companies like IBM and Microsoft will certainly be offshoring it. I’m not sure if Amazon is offshoring or not.

But as in the original post, onshore or offshore, Amazon could be datamining at any given time.

I know that our host Cartika is not offshoring for the moment. I know about half the support staff by name and know a few of them personally.

]]> By: simple man http://foliovision.com/2010/01/argument-against-the-cloud-your-data#comment-23355 simple man Sat, 06 Feb 2010 19:05:30 +0000 http://foliovision.com/2010/01/03/argument-against-the-cloud-your-data#comment-23355 “Not just any Tom, Dick or Harry will be running the cloud servers”

do you not realize that once your data is in the cloud the cloud keeper will find the cheapest way to manage it – OFFSHORE

]]> By: Marcel Klimo http://foliovision.com/2010/01/argument-against-the-cloud-your-data#comment-23253 Marcel Klimo Thu, 21 Jan 2010 18:11:00 +0000 http://foliovision.com/2010/01/03/argument-against-the-cloud-your-data#comment-23253 Alec, what do you mean by strange? Of course Facebook is data mining and using it for advertising.

]]> By: Steve Nutt http://foliovision.com/2010/01/argument-against-the-cloud-your-data#comment-23172 Steve Nutt Sun, 10 Jan 2010 13:04:22 +0000 http://foliovision.com/2010/01/03/argument-against-the-cloud-your-data#comment-23172 Not just any Tom, Dick or Harry will be running the cloud servers and somewhere along the line you have to trust someone. Remember that Microsoft probably made the browser you are using to view this page and many of you will have a GMail email address. Does Microsoft keep track of where you are going and what you are doing on the Internet? – Of course not. Now Google on the other hand….. damn – there goes my argument down the pan :-(

]]> By: alec http://foliovision.com/2010/01/argument-against-the-cloud-your-data#comment-23164 alec Sat, 09 Jan 2010 16:06:03 +0000 http://foliovision.com/2010/01/03/argument-against-the-cloud-your-data#comment-23164 Hi Marcel,

I’m sure there is some spying going on through the IBM, SAP and Oracle database servers. You do run this risk with your own internal IT team as well. One can hope that the big firms are doing some policing. Certainly one has to consider carefully the ethics of a company to which one entrusts sensitive.

Your apprehension about being spied on are somewhat strange given that your homepage is on Facebook. If you are looking for data mining, you need go no further than facebook.

]]> By: Marcel Klimo http://foliovision.com/2010/01/argument-against-the-cloud-your-data#comment-23161 Marcel Klimo Fri, 08 Jan 2010 21:10:58 +0000 http://foliovision.com/2010/01/03/argument-against-the-cloud-your-data#comment-23161 I’m glad somebody is bringing up this issue of cloud computing. It seems as though only the cost-reducing benefits of cloud computing have been pointed out so far.

However, I can’t stop to wonder. Do major software companies like Oracle, SAP or IBM have back doors in their software, which enable them to “spy” on their customers and leverage their data?

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