The issue whether to trust the cloud is very much up for debate. Some individuals absolutely don’t trust it. Others are okay while even other favor the ease of use, cost savings and overall simplicity.
I have found many in IT who don’t trust it at all. Cloud based infrastructure can be a threat to their job security. We know it takes more IT staff to manage a full MS Exchange environment for a company, than a Google Apps domain.
I’m sure the debate will continue to go on and on, but slowly the cloud IS winning. More and more companies are recognizing the cost savings and data control which goes with cloud hosted and SAS solutions.
All that said, we do know one good thing local servers are really good at: hiding emails from the State department if your last name is Clinton. ;-)
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