Sigh! Four years and folks are still trying the upsell the cloud. Maybe the NSA is offering an additional bonus? 😛

Most of us who've been in this business awhile understand the benefits of various technical and business solutions. The "cloud" or service providers work better in some circumstances and for a sub-set of institutions. We still have the same issues we had four years ago: bandwidth, service, accountability and security.

And security is a much larger elephant considering the events of the last year. It's apparent that an insider or an government agency can totally damage an organization. Why do you want yet another company and their employees/contractors to have access to your data by outsourcing it? You're increasing the liability and attack surface.