Admittedly, I’m not very tech-savvy. In fact, I would even go as far as to say that I am a techno-dummy. So why am I suddenly interested in Cloud?
Basically, I think it interests me because everyone I know stores their data in it.
I am usually behind when it comes to technology and this is one of those times. I’ve been afraid of cloud technology ever since it came out.
My concerns centered on the fact that nothing on the Internet is really secure, even though they keep telling us that it is. My reasoning has been that if hackers like WikiLeaks and OpenLeaks can hack into millions upon thousands of classified government documents and access all kinds of banking information, then nothing on the Internet is safe.
I have also been afraid of my data being lost to cloud storage. There have been too many times when I sent a document that got lost in an internet black hole, or someone sent me a document while we were both sitting at our computers, and it got lost in the ether.
I recently stored my music on a cloud that is probably floating around somewhere. It took a week to put away and since then I have not been able to find it. I know it’s out there somewhere; I just don’t know how to get it down to earth and put it on my laptop.
And after I stored my music in the disappearing cloud, I heard that one of those cloud data storage facilities was shutting down and their customers were being asked to make other storage arrangements.
I saw a lot of posts and it sounded like controlled chaos. People were worried about losing their data or that they had too much data to move quickly and efficiently. It sounded like chaos judging by the intensity of the posts I was reading.
When I see things like this happen to newer and better technology, I’m glad I’m not so smart about it. It makes me move much slower until many of the bugs are resolved before I buy the latest device.
I think I’ll stick with my multicolored floppy backup system. At least I can see them. I can’t see my music in the cloud, so I’m not even sure it’s there, but the floppies? The ones that I can see.