Given all the discussion recently of the security of one’s data in the cloud, I’m linking over to a poll that storage provider EMC’s Scott Waterhouse is doing on The Backup Blog. This is his personal blog and is focused on pretty geeky storage related issues — he writes about backup, recovery and archiving.
His poll asks a very simple question: would you backup business data to the cloud? The only clarification he offers is that the cloud in this case is a public cloud or a service provider cloud–not a private cloud that your corporation or small business operates inside your firewall. (The poll takes place on the right hand rail of the site and not in the post itself.)
Remember, this is not about you as a consumer backing up your iTunes collection or kids’ pictures to Mozy or Carbonite. This is about business data - be it for a corporation, medium-sized business or small business.
Scott says that the essence of his question is this “…would you be willing to treat backup software as a service, and use somebody else’s infrastructure at a different site to do your backup?” So, for those of our readers who have corporate data that you carry around with you on your laptop, or for our IT readers who have a decision-making roll in whether a company puts its data in the cloud, let him know your thoughts.
I just completed it and wasn’t really surprised by the results (I won’t tell you the results I saw otherwise you won’t go take the poll).
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