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Cloud Computing Is Safe For Your Business Analysis

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Cloud computing and storage is becoming a popular among computer users, with programs like Google Drive and iCloud. Whether it’s safe or not, is up for discussion. The article “Why cloud computing is safe for your business,” by Sage.com and “Should you use iCloud Photo Library?” by Serenity Caldwell support cloud storage as “No, your data isn’t secure on the cloud,” by Lucas Mearian, and “8 Reasons to Fear Cloud Computing?” by Sara Angeles are against cloud use. Sage.com and Caldwell do not contain enough evidence to change the claim that cloud computing is unsafe. “Why cloud computing is safe for your business,” by Sage.com explains the positive aspects and ensures safety is included in the cloud. Sage is a company that endorses a cloud service itself. The article explains how it everything is backed up on the cloud, and there isn’t an issue of data scatter on …show more content…

She also uses quotes from outside sources and hyperlinks within her article to prove points. Angeles states, “Hackers have been around from the start and they are not going anywhere any time soon. And as technology advances, so do the risks that come with adopting them.” This quote should have meaning to any audience, as it is known that companies have been hacked, and there are news stories of hacking all the time. Along with Mearian’s article, she also brings up the point that the government can request information from a website at any given time. She states that clouds are very easy to access, as she quotes a cloud law speaker named Robert Scott, “Information security has always been finding a balance between ease of access and the sharing of information verses completely locked down security, the more you have of one, the less you have of the other.” If a cloud law speaker also realizes that the security isn’t correlated with the ease of access, then the cloud can’t be a very safe

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