Can the cloud model be trusted?

Hannah Breeze
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In light of fallen giant 2e2's demise, Hannah Breeze asks if there are too many flaws in the cloud model

"Pay up or lose access to your data" - that is a choice no customer wants to be given, but it is one with which 2e2's datacentre customers were faced when the firm entered administration last month...

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