Cloud Computing

The video did help make sense of this. The only gist of it I had previously was that you could access "your stuff" from any computer any time...like Google docs, etc. The commercials ("to the cloud!") also kind of drove home the point that it makes your things uber-accessible. I think the only way I've used this before are the Google applications. Things in the video were questionable to me though, when it comes to using this alone for business purposes, etc. How much faith can you have in systems managed entirely elsewhere? It made it seem philosophical, and like a good philosophy, but what if your stuff is lost or damaged or errors occur? It seems like a hard sell to me to rely on the cloud and the cloud alone. Libraries are always on the cutting edge of technology when it comes to sharing information, and there may be library services we use now that are cloud-like and I don't even realize it. (Are there?) I'm sure this will be in our futures. We're all for accessibility. I just hope we don't go around saying "to the cloud!" all the time.