Some of my memories started kicking in when I happened to read an article on the internet "What To Do When Your Cloud Service Fades Away" by @sergeykandaurov
I have been a cloud service offerings for more than a decade around 1998-2000. I remember using some of the so called dotcom SaaS companies who offered the onpremises tools services online then (now called as the Cloud services). Some of them were box.com, usa.net, freeservers.com I used to have accounts in all of these SaaS free offerings when the storage capacities used to be 1-10MB space whereas the standard data transfer mechanism used to still the 1.44 MB Floppy disk. These websites used to offer free storage and it used to be mechanism for backing up or storing data even on a 64kbps dialup line those days.
Most of these Y2K companies died during the period 2002-2005 and probably the only surviving company is freeservers.com.These companies were good enough to notify their users and gave adequate time for take the data backup from these website before they were shutdown. So I too ensured to take a back copy of my old data that was on the cloud.
Currently, there are many companies that offer the services to a typical internet user such as Microsoft's Skydrive, Google's drive, Dropbox.com, Soundcloud.com etc. As an individual, I have account on all of these cloud services. Similalry, there are many corporates and enterprises uses Cloud SaaS services such as Outlook.com (the microsoft exchange server on cloud), Salesforce.com, workday.com, netsuite.com,....and the list goes on.
Have you thought about how would you ensure to take a backup or migrate from one of the cloud SaaS companies decided to move on by closing their business or when you feel insecure holding data with them. This is one of the place where companies like Informatica can provide tools to integrate between the cloud systems and the on-premises . To read more visit www.informatica.com and www.informaticacloud.com
I have been a cloud service offerings for more than a decade around 1998-2000. I remember using some of the so called dotcom SaaS companies who offered the onpremises tools services online then (now called as the Cloud services). Some of them were box.com, usa.net, freeservers.com I used to have accounts in all of these SaaS free offerings when the storage capacities used to be 1-10MB space whereas the standard data transfer mechanism used to still the 1.44 MB Floppy disk. These websites used to offer free storage and it used to be mechanism for backing up or storing data even on a 64kbps dialup line those days.
Most of these Y2K companies died during the period 2002-2005 and probably the only surviving company is freeservers.com.These companies were good enough to notify their users and gave adequate time for take the data backup from these website before they were shutdown. So I too ensured to take a back copy of my old data that was on the cloud.
Currently, there are many companies that offer the services to a typical internet user such as Microsoft's Skydrive, Google's drive, Dropbox.com, Soundcloud.com etc. As an individual, I have account on all of these cloud services. Similalry, there are many corporates and enterprises uses Cloud SaaS services such as Outlook.com (the microsoft exchange server on cloud), Salesforce.com, workday.com, netsuite.com,....and the list goes on.
Have you thought about how would you ensure to take a backup or migrate from one of the cloud SaaS companies decided to move on by closing their business or when you feel insecure holding data with them. This is one of the place where companies like Informatica can provide tools to integrate between the cloud systems and the on-premises . To read more visit www.informatica.com and www.informaticacloud.com
