On 10 Jan 2011 at 11:43, techconnect wrote:
> We are a private k-8 school and we have a board member who is telling us
> that we should not buy any new servers to replace the current ones, he says
> everything is moving to the cloud and so should our stuff(user folders,
> authenication AD win 2003 R2 and Exchange 2003 is what we're using, they
> want to move to gmail but there's no central management there I know of,and
> offsite backups only.) We have about 350-400 students and faculty and they
> want to be on the bandwagon to the cloud I think without understanding
> everything about it(I'm not entirely clear either) and was looking for
> thoughts and opinions or resources.
Interesting take on this idea here:
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Why I´m Having Second Thoughts About The Wisdom Of The Cloud
"...It used to be that if the US government wanted access to documents or
letters in my possession they´d have to subpoena me directly. As a foreign
citizen there are all sorts of ways I could fight the request - and it was
at least my choice whether to do so. As someone living in the US I also
had the whole weight of the 4th Amendment on my side. Now, with everything
in the cloud, the decision whether to hand over my personal information is
almost entirely out of my hands. And unless, as happened with Twitter, the
company storing my data decides to fight for openness on my behalf,
there´s every possibility that I won´t even hear about the request until
it´s too late. That´s just not how things should work in a free society.
"Of course, it remains statistically unlikely that I´m going to be the
subject of a subpoena any time soon. I´m hardly an enemy of the state. But
then again, until recently, neither were many of the supporters of
Wikileaks. Who´s to say that an innocuous organisation I give support to
today won´t suddenly become highly controversial tomorrow?
"For that reason, I´m giving serious thought to the idea of taking my
communications back out of the cloud: switching back to a traditional
email client and storing my documents on my encrypted hard-drive."
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Seen here:
http://techcrunch.com/2011/01/10/why-im-having-second-thoughts-about-the-wisdom-of-the-cloud/
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