In 2011, Apple celebrated the triumph of data that is freely available regardless of the end device with the iCloud, but even if it took a while - the idea is much, much older. As early as the 1950s, Dr. Herbert R.J. Grosch at IBM outlined the combination of speed and cost, and of data and tasks from a few large computing units to many small ones; the cloud was born.
Today, the top five cloud providers (in reverse order) are Huawei, Alibaba, Google Cloud, Microsoft Azure, and Amazon Web Services. In the present, the cloud landscape - greatly simplified - is as follows: Either a privately hosted cloud is used, a public one or a mixed form (multi-cloud, i.e. the use of several clouds has been observed as a trend for several years). Private clouds offer greater security, but since the infrastructure and maintenance are all up to the developer, they are generally complex to use and manage and in some cases require not inconsiderable financial resources as well as a great deal of know-how and time spent on maintenance.
The opposite is true for public clouds: they are easy to use and require less knowledge & money: only ... if you give your data to the cloud, you give it out of your hands.
"There is no cloud - It's just someone else's computer. "
The idea is also anything but new, but few people draw consequences from it. Security expert Graham Cluley had an interesting suggestion: use "someone else's computers" as a term every time instead of "cloud."
Does company data, such as employee data, contacts built and grown over years, financial information, and last but not least, company knowledge and development, belong on someone else's computers? But what is the alternative? Is there a software where I have sovereignty over my data and do not have to entrust it to American or Chinese providers? Where the communication works according to the minimal data principle and is peer-to-peer?
A software where no-man-in-the-middle applies and I still benefit from all the advantages of the public cloud: user-friendly interface, low costs, low know-how and exactly the functionality I need?
Enter "ZUGSEIL" in the search engine of your choice.
Cloud rethought: Your data is yours!
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