When you think security, you often think about firewalls, spyware, and black hat hackers and crackers, who seem devoted to breaking through your computer security systems. But there’s another kind of security that you ought to be just as concerned about – system failure.
Think about all of the data that’s on your computer or in your server. It’s safe and secure with all of your updated security systems in place, right? But when your system goes down – which almost every system (no matter how large or small) does from time to time – is it storing information you need right now, before IT can restore you to full functionality? The inability to access that information may mean that you miss a deadline, that you are unable to make a presentation, that you lose an account. Of course you know to back up everything – you tell everyone in your organization to back up their files. And of course (we say with tongue firmly implanted in cheek), that happens all of the time. But even if you’ve backed up 99% of your files, Murphy’s Law demands that the files you really need are in that 1% that you can’t reach.
That’s not an issue for people who compute on their clouds. Their files are always there, available from any connected computer. Even if their one and only computer is down, they can make a trip to a public library, access their cloud, and bingo – there are the files they need.
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