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This 6 page paper gives abstracts for five articles about electronic business communications, found in five different sources. Bibliography lists 5 sources.
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a different source. Discussion The first article is by Harry Lewis and is titled "Enter the cloud with caution"; it comes from Business Week (Online) and is dated August 4,
2008. (Since this is an online publication there is no page number.) Lewis discusses one of the latest developments in business today: instead of maintaining computer systems in-house, along with
an IT department to keep them running and solve the problems that inevitably crop up, companies are opting to put a lot of their information in the "cloud" and let
it reside on servers elsewhere (Lewis, 2008). The "cloud" is the euphemism people are using to refer to the Internet and simply put, companies are storing documents, financial information, business
proposals and all kinds of documents on servers managed by organizations like Google and Amazon (Lewis, 2008). This eliminates the IT department, as noted above, along with the need to
always have the latest software, the latest anti-virus protection and so on. But there are drawbacks, and Lewis advises businesses to proceed with caution before jumping into the new method.
Among the concerns are privacy, backing up data, and potential competition, among others (Lewis, 2008). Companies that have stringent regulations about privacy of their communications and work product should consider
the possibility that others will have access to sensitive information if they choose to operate in the cloud (Lewis, 2008). Many providers state that its the responsibility of the company
to back up their own data, so those who are unaware of this, or who assume that everything will be taken care of as part of the service, may lose
data (Lewis, 2008). It is possible that the company managing the data may some day be a competitor of the company that is using the service; the latter will thus
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