DRAWBACKS OF CLOUD COMPUTING
The drawbacks are actually the same as those encountered by institutions that have information
hosted outside of the entity. Whereas, in the case of hard-copy document files and at the
enterprise level, this fear disappeared years ago given the benefits of cost reduction in
infrastructure management and security, in the case of digital data there is still a huge fear of
putting our information in the hands of third parties. This fear arises due to issues such as
confidentiality, theft, loss etc. Yet people are increasingly more likely to do so now that the use of
web 2.0 and social networks has become so widespread . There is nothing more sensitive than
banking or personal data, yet this data is stored in servers over which we have no domain or
ownership.
An institution might take the decision to progressively move towards Cloud Computing by
uploading applications which are not very sensitive such as: messaging, the booking of rooms,
meeting management, the liquidation of costs, and holiday management. Following this learning
process, more valuable information involving the corpus of the institution, i.e "Busines intelillence
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" might be uploaded to the cloud. In the case of librarys and information centers, this information
would include management funds and network transactions