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Google Cloud Connect: Could This Be The End of File Servers?

We typically don’t publish new posts to FPPad minutes after seeing interesting tweets, but this information is making the rounds quickly today.

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Here’s the 2:21 video (embedded below) describing how Google Cloud Connect works. This will be the way we’ll all work in a few short years.

Why buy expensive, costly, and vulnerable file servers when cloud storage exists? Yes, yes, we hear you crying out

But is it secure?!? Is it bad (and potentially a compliance violation) to put clients’ personally identifiable information into the Google Cloud?

I trust those questions will be answered in time.