Is Moving Everything To the Cloud Really A Wise Move?

Now a days, the buzz word in software and storage is "The Cloud", or Cloud Computing, and how it makes things easier for the end user because all of your Documents, Files and Applications are stored online in a huge database accessible from anywhere on any device.  That's the theory that We as a society are expected to believe. But is Cloud Computing really all that it promises itself to be?

Companies have started to bank fully on the idea of Cloud Computing. Adobe has just moved all of its designs software to a subscription service called "Creative Cloud" Microsoft Office now offers their own subscription service called "Office 360" and Google themselves believe that the answer is to turn their Chrome Browser into a full Operating system where all your applications are accessed from the Internet via a "Always On" Network connected device.

And what happens, if you happen to question the logic presented of the benefits of a Always On, Always Accessible Cloud based world? You get looked at like you're the fictional character of Abe Simpson from the Simpsons as depicted in this image, told to get with the times and that The Cloud is the "Wave of the Future"

But is it really? Picture the following situation, Your Company has a tight deadline on a project that if you do not manage to meet can cost you Hundreds, or even Thousands, in profit, and damage the status of your Company as a reliable firm who always delivers. Your Office and Design software has moved to the Cloud and your Client NEEDS this project launched by a specific day. Suddenly the City has a Major power outage, Cellular Towers and Internet Connections are all down, or worse, like what happened once at a Job I was on where all systems used were ran through Internet Connections INCLUDING PHONE LINES, and the service provider lost Internet rendering an office of 300 unable to do anything but get paid for sitting and waiting for a return of services.

With Locally stored programs, a business can still continue to work on projects through the use of External Battery packs and Laptops with stand alone battery systems but in the Cloud based world, much like my fellow 299 other co workers that fateful day, your company could be left sitting around unable to finish a project one time.

Something to consider before believing that the Cloud is the solution, don't you think?