Originally Posted by
Mark Taylor2
Well, as many companies have learned and are about to learn.. the "cloud" is a myth. It's giving your stuff for someone else to hold. With cloudy services being hacked and more than a couple going bust, this is really not the way for any company of any size to go. Keeping your data (bookkeeping, drawings, etc.) on your own machines with good (by good, I mean regular and periodically test to see if they restore) is probably the best idea. To have a "cloud" in the middle of your manufacturing process is probably even a dumber idea.