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The creepy AI-driven surveillance that may be infiltrating your workplace (www.businessinsider.com)

submitted 11 months ago by [email protected] to c/[email protected]

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[–] [email protected] 5 points 11 months ago (1 children)

We're very much on the same page. Seeing the SMB's get sucked into cloud because on-prem has hardware costs is really frustrating. I blame bean-counter, because hardware is a capital expenditure and cloud is like leasing something.

The short-term financials look good, but disregards the risks and costs of going to cloud. That my SMB IT friends don't make this more clear to their clients is really frustrating.

Backup is a great use-case for cloud, you address the risk of local problems, so I get that. But office 365/email/outlook? No thanks. But MS just makes it so much cheaper/easier, especially for SMB.

[–] [email protected] 5 points 11 months ago* (last edited 11 months ago)

Agreed on all points. Backup is indeed often a great candidate for cloud. Like you said, it's usually cheaper and safer in the long run and addresses all the checklist items you'd have to implement locally for redundancies and security.

All these vendors forcing us to move to a rent based economy is tiresome.