>I honestly fail to see any good reason not to use the cloud anymore, at least for business. Cost-wise, security-wise, whatever-wise. Problem is point of failu

>I honestly fail to see any good reason not to use the cloud anymore, at least for business. Cost-wise, security-wise, whatever-wise. Problem is point of failure, many businesses need to be independent and having data stored in the cloud is a bad idea overall. Because it produces point of failure issues. Consider if we ever got a real nasty solar wind and the electric grid goes down, the more we rely on the internet and centralize infrastructure into electric devices, the more it becomes a costly point of failure. While many see redundancy as "waste" in terms of dollars, notice that our bodies have many billions of redundant cells and that's what makes us resilient as a species, we can take a licking and keep on ticking. Trusting your data to out-side sources generally is a bad idea any day of the week. You always want to have backups and data available in case of diaster, mishap, etc. Like no one has learned from this epidemic yet. Notice that our economic philosophy didn't plan for viral infections and has forced our capitalist society to make serious adjustments. Helping people is an anathema to liberals and conservatives / republicans / democrats, so for void to come along and actually force co-operation was a bit tragically humorous. As a general rule you need redundancy if you want to survive, behaving as if the cloud is almighty is a bad idea, I'm not sold on "software as a service" or any of that nonsense. It's just there to lull you into a false sense of security. You always need to plan for the worst case scenario for surviveability reasons.