Tuesday 27 July 2010

Cloud Computing – Internet Access is Everything


A short while ago I wrote an article entitled “Cloud Computing – Hot Air or Business Reality?“. This looked at the pros and cons of cloud computing – BIG BENEFITS, BIG RISKS.

Risk number 1 was summed up by IT specialist Andy Scott “Loss of Internet = loss of information systems. PERIOD.” At each place of use, it is a must to have at least two totally independent reasonably high-speed internet connections, This is often landline + 3G.

Being one of the few areas of the country that hasn’t have Virgin cable, the new Virgin boxes have reminded me ...

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