The Cloud is a lovely analogy, but that's all it is - an analogy. You're still forced to deal with realities like 'What are the privacy laws in the country where my data is physically stored?' and 'Can I even tell which country my data is stored in and how will I know if the location changes?'.

The US Patriot Act, for example, left those of us outside the US scrambling to ensure that no private or confidential data was being stored on servers in the US where it could be subject to arbitrary search and seizure. I'm not interested in going through that again.

I'll stick to offsite storage in a reassuringly physical vault a few miles away, thanks anyway.

Robb