> From: "Julie J. Colgan" <[log in to unmask]>
> Date: June 15, 2012 9:28:25 AM EDT
> 
> Hi Hugh,
> 
> I agree that cloud backups, in many of cases, will not deliver significant
> savings and can add undesirable risk.  However, as Gordy notes, there are
> some applications where, when done right with the right vendor, cloud
> backup can make sense.

I agree that things like my iTunes and even my massive photo collections are served just fine on something like the Cloud that Apple offers. Apple provides that stuff for free but I accept that like LinkedIn tomorrow it will be a faithless friend and desert me.  I have the real value backed up several ways.  But anyone using the Cloud in the real world of records management has to have the sanity questioned.

Somewhere, there needs to be course given to IT Managers and CIO's that explains why speed and density and just a low cost place to store things is not a "Big Boy" solution. To ignore the 30 years of perfect performance of Tape (as long as you migrate and update like the program calls for).......... is like a Mother who ignores her one perfect son just because a new baby comes along. Okay my brother was a lot better looking!  I give him that!! 

New technologies that start with such horrific results in their opening days should be left at the curb no matter how many articles IBM, Google and Oracle and Microsoft bribe trade journals to run.  (Fun fact, when you see a new technology hyped as the next "Coming" look in the issue and see if that vendor has a massive ad buy!  "Oh say it ain't so Joe!"  
> 
> That said, I see more of my clients moving from tape to disk for their
> backups, not to a cloud.  Disk can offer the same security features of
> tape, but less labor and distributed costs (e.g. tape rotation, offsite
> storage, etc.).  It is also often faster to restore from disk when
> necessary.

There is a great presentation given by Fred Moore of Horison Technology that examines the reliability, the accuracy, security and cost comparison of Tape versus Cloud that is amazing.  He is scheduled to present on this issue in Chicago on September 6th at a session sponsored by PRISM.  It is a two day conference that coves a whole range of topics in this field. Fred is the keynote.  If you live in Chicago you might talk with your offsite storage company to see if you could attend this conference as it has a really great agenda.

It would be great if Records Managers played a role at these type of conferences as it would bring gravitas to your arguments with management and IT about how best to protect the corporation. Julie, I heard they are looking for one more Case Study about how solid records management, ERM and tape storage all come together.

They were going to have me do it; but, then they found out about by better looking brother and that ended it!

Word to the Wise: "When checking out at the grocery store; the checker turned to me and said "Strip Down and Face me!"  Well, I was starting to get really fed up with all this Homeland Security Procedures at airport...... but at the grocery store??  Well after the screaming stopped I found out she was talking about my credit card!!  So be careful of this!

I bet this sort of stuff never happens to Julie.......cause she is a consultant.  Larry I could see. He would be focused on his Bar B Que seasoning and would be absent minded and would already have his Hawaiin shirt halfway off before he caught himself.

> Snip from Mary:

> I believe these conversations are good, but do caution that it might be useful to clarify a bit more as we discuss.
> 
> Mary Hilliard, CRM

Exactly!  That was my point to the check-out girl.  But I still have to find another grocery store to shop in.  We must Clarify.

Hope you all have a great weekend.

Hugh Smith
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