Perhaps you're thinking of moving some of your business processes to The Cloud. There's certainly no shortage of IT companies who would be happy to provide whatever cloud services you might want.
In addition to the usual due diligence about contract terms, cost analysis and so forth, there is one easy test that can quickly scuttle a bad "move it to the cloud" scheme before you've wasted your money and time analyzing it in detail.
Most computer users are at least somewhat aware of the importance of keeping backups of data. I suspect that most computer users are also less careful than they ought to be when it comes to protecting those backups.
TL;DR: If your digital data is worth anything significant to you, then you need to keep multiple, redundant encrypted backups of it in physically separate locations
OK, tech blogs. Hype all you like about thin clients, Web-based apps, and the end of heavy client-side computing power, but at the end of the day, there is still something to be said for powerful, well-provisioned end user workstations.
I'm a bit amazed by the recent hype over cloud computing. Google Docs, Salesforce, Amazon EC3, the list goes on: the tech blogs are falling over themselves to keep up with the latest software-as-a-service and cloud offerings. Listening to Google's PR team, one might think that we're about to give up on stand-alone computers altogether.
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