Cloud computing has won the hearts of many people in the corporate world and even individuals who wish to remotely store and secure any data. There are indeed many platforms which support cloud computing and this technology field has been dominated with the likes of Google Cloud, Microsoft Azure and Amazon Web Services. Many experiments with cloud computing have indeed turn out to be a huge global success and perhaps one of the elements which has been rarely looked into is whether such storage platforms can be vulnerable to threats such as data loss and inaccessibility.
It turns out that cloud computing may not be that secure and this was demonstrated by Microsoft server outage in December 2015. The outcome was that users of Microsoft 365 had their cloud-stored data out of reach for some time and such an occurrence is likely to have a bad influence on huge corporations which rely on continuous data access for convenience in their operations. The other problem is that cloud computing does require highly reliable internet access for any data to be accessed. This in turn can add a lot of operational costs as catering for the extra internet access costs means that some organizations will be forced to regularly review their revenue books.
Many people do turn to cloud platforms as temporary data storage platforms to guarantee safety in case data in the primary storage gets lost or inaccessible. This is considered a good move; however, we shouldn’t forget that cloud platforms too are prone to malicious hacks which can lead to vast amount of data being wiped off from storage servers or unintended password change which can lock out any access to data. The meaning is that though cloud platforms are considered generally safe and convenient to store data, they shouldn’t be relied 100%.
It turns out that cloud computing may not be that secure and this was demonstrated by Microsoft server outage in December 2015. The outcome was that users of Microsoft 365 had their cloud-stored data out of reach for some time and such an occurrence is likely to have a bad influence on huge corporations which rely on continuous data access for convenience in their operations. The other problem is that cloud computing does require highly reliable internet access for any data to be accessed. This in turn can add a lot of operational costs as catering for the extra internet access costs means that some organizations will be forced to regularly review their revenue books.
Many people do turn to cloud platforms as temporary data storage platforms to guarantee safety in case data in the primary storage gets lost or inaccessible. This is considered a good move; however, we shouldn’t forget that cloud platforms too are prone to malicious hacks which can lead to vast amount of data being wiped off from storage servers or unintended password change which can lock out any access to data. The meaning is that though cloud platforms are considered generally safe and convenient to store data, they shouldn’t be relied 100%.