7 Reasons Not to Go to the Cloud
Cloud services, such as Office365, Quickbooks Online and Salesforce, have been revolutionary in the past decade allowing businesses to scrap on-site server iron—including maintenance, upgrades and support costs in exchange for a subscription contract. Smaller, more specific apps, like Monday.com, Basecamp, and Push, zero in with laser focus on a set of problems that used to be the sole dominion of custom applications, and do it affordably. Even though there are many reasons to migrate applications to the cloud, the swing to cloud services is not for every business, and many are wisely holding off. Here are 7 reasons why: 1. Security Handing over all your data and critical business processes to a third party takes trust. Though some are more secure than others, there is always risk involved in trusting your data with an external entity. LinkedIn, Adobe, Yahoo, among others, have already had hacks. Ever receive a threatening email with one of your passwords in the subject line?...