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"Intel, like many other industry heavyweights, believes we are navigating towards a cyber future that will be heavily dominated by Cloud-based computing. According to Intel exec Jason Waxman, the rapidly evolving Cloud is already serving consumers and businesses by hosting terabytes of games, videos, pictures, databases and e-mail accounts.
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Ah, the cloud. You can't go for ten minutes nowadays without hearing the word. This article discusses one of the potential pitfalls of the cloud that will need to be addressed going forward: where the data actually resides, how vulnerable the data is to legal prying, and how much confidence the consumer has it the system. One thing's for sure: with an increasing number of consumers storing more and more of their information online instead of a local hard drive, these questions will need to be resolved.

It's all about The Cloud these days - your data, you entertainment, your everything - stored on a service that you can access with any online connection. The benefits are many, but what you don't always hear about are the down-sides of everything being cloud-based. What if you get locked out of your account? I've heard of more than a few people that get locked out of their Gmail account or who can't access their Gmail calendar. It happens to Hotmail and Yahoo users as well. What if the company hosting your information deletes it, either accidentally or not, or goes out of business? That's not an uncommon problem. In terms of uptime most cloud services are fairly robust, when things go wrong, they can really ruin your day. Read more...