Comments on: Home http://officeinthecloud.com Using web services to power a small business online Sun, 12 Dec 2010 05:03:41 +0000 hourly 1 By: Glenn Nicholas http://officeinthecloud.com/#comment-3 Glenn Nicholas Fri, 02 Apr 2010 15:58:56 +0000 #comment-3 Good points Svend. We've moved on a bit since this initial take. We use S3 for our server backups. And Dropbox.com serves a dual purpose: - shared folders - offsite backup for important business docs Running Google Apps via webmail interface, no need for antivirus. But I agree desktop apps will be around for a bit yet. Good points Svend.
We’ve moved on a bit since this initial take.
We use S3 for our server backups.
And Dropbox.com serves a dual purpose:
- shared folders
- offsite backup for important business docs

Running Google Apps via webmail interface, no need for antivirus.

But I agree desktop apps will be around for a bit yet.

]]> By: svend http://officeinthecloud.com/#comment-2 svend Mon, 08 Mar 2010 04:47:46 +0000 #comment-2 Looks ok. The backup needs a bit more thought if you want to hold your backups in your hand. I think better solutions will come. At the moment most hosted disk space providers will offer a backup with a retention period of about a week, but Jungle looks good. Most corporates want a few months minimum. I've had first hand experience of why you would want a couple of months rollback. Dumping all your data to a backup device a few times a month will soon eat your upload/download unless the hosting company comes to the party with a special application to allow incrementals of deduplication. Jungle will change you for excessive file downloads as a backup would incur. Maybe you just trust the hosting company. Better test their backups regularly to be sure. Still need someone to run around and install antivirus on the PCs. They will prefer a centralized management console, but that is comming. Symantec are planning hosted AV management. And until Google deliver their browser based OS, and then Microsoft follow suit, people will still want local applications like office, and someone needs to install these and fix them when the break etc. Personally I don't think all of the pieces are quite in place yet but there is enough there for small companies of three to ten to hang in there and I think this will be changing very fast now. It is expecially appealing if you are a startup as you don't have any baggage applications that you need to convert. You just go cloud from day one. Looks ok.

The backup needs a bit more thought if you want to hold your backups in your hand. I think better solutions will come. At the moment most hosted disk space providers will offer a backup with a retention period of about a week, but Jungle looks good. Most corporates want a few months minimum. I’ve had first hand experience of why you would want a couple of months rollback. Dumping all your data to a backup device a few times a month will soon eat your upload/download unless the hosting company comes to the party with a special application to allow incrementals of deduplication. Jungle will change you for excessive file downloads as a backup would incur.

Maybe you just trust the hosting company. Better test their backups regularly to be sure.

Still need someone to run around and install antivirus on the PCs. They will prefer a centralized management console, but that is comming. Symantec are planning hosted AV management.

And until Google deliver their browser based OS, and then Microsoft follow suit, people will still want local applications like office, and someone needs to install these and fix them when the break etc.

Personally I don’t think all of the pieces are quite in place yet but there is enough there for small companies of three to ten to hang in there and I think this will be changing very fast now.

It is expecially appealing if you are a startup as you don’t have any baggage applications that you need to convert. You just go cloud from day one.

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