Got a mail from $CUSTOMER super-top-management today (we have accounts in the $CUSTOMER AD because we need to do remote stuff and also get on their premises, so we get all the inspiring emails meant for employees as well).
They are moving all "My Documents" shares to "the cloud".
s encountered just in that hurrah mail and linked documentation:
- storing internal corporate data on the public internet (they do NOT run the servers themselves)
- estimating savings of € 50,000,000 by that move
- telling people "this system works perfectly" and "you must not use this system for sensitive or secret documents" literally four lines apart
- before sharing "technical documents" across country borders, you have to make sure you meet export regulations (WAT? It's the cloud, how the fuck should I know if that document just crossed a border?)
- in the Android version of their cloud client thing (didn't check for other versions), if you share a document with somebody else YOU CANNOT EDIT IT until that person gives it back to you
- Shit gets synchronised from the "cloud" to your local storage, so you better have enough hard disk capacity. No more freeloading off those file servers for you!
I'm really looking forward to the big roll-out. Give your data to the clown! Clown access! Clown storage! Clowns everywhere!
- Honk * * honk *