[so_real]

The way it was explained to me, is that the cloud is everywhere. You put your data in the cloud, and it is stored on any number of physical machines, in any number of countries, so you never have to worry about a disk failure losing it, or a segment of the network going down making it unavailable. That sounds great until you wonder who has access to it. Do you really want your competitors to know who your vendors are? the names of your most productive sales people? the target objectives for your next sales campaign or media blitz? etc, etc. I don't have a problem with library and audio visual material being ubiquitous. But there are just some things better kept under lock and key.

[LaserJock]

“But there are just some things better kept under lock and key.”

I agree. Even in a full-on information age, there will be a need to protect some data. I'm thinking it's a tiny amount though.