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Letter: Head in the clouds

Published 8 May 2013

From Ian Chapple

Further to your article on the perils of storing digital files in the cloud (30 March, p 34), anyone who believes that it’s a good idea to back up documents solely in the cloud, particularly with a single provider, is seriously misguided. If your business relies on digital files or media, you must maintain your own private, offline archive, even if this consists of nothing more than a collection of external hard discs stored in a safe place.

The Hague, The Netherlands

Issue no. 2916 published 11 May 2013

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