Cloud Storage: Is the Business Model Flawed?

Author: Jason Blackwell, Practice Director, Digital Home

Published: 16 Jul 2009

The "cloud" continues to get a lot of coverage, as new applications and concepts are developed. Most certainly, there are significant advantages to storing content where it can be accessed from anywhere, and cloud applications like Google Docs provide very good, low-cost (even free) software that can be run from virtually any web browser. However, as consumers start to embrace the idea of storing valuable content on remote servers, the potential dark side of cloud computing becomes more apparent. With the current economic trends, as well as the continual development of DRM schemes and technology, some of this content could disappear, never to be seen again. What then?

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