Clouding Over

摘要

I participated in a demo with an enterprise social softwarernvendor not too long ago in which the vendor explained some new functionality it was adding to its tool. The functionality would allow licensees to support file sharing with external partners. This idea could prove to be a bit tricky because the product in question is fundamentally an intranet platform that runs behind the firewall. So the vendor set up its own file-sharing service for its customers to use with external collaborators. That immediately set off a string of questions in my head, the first out of my mouth being, "Where do all those docs get stored?"rn"The cloud," Mr. Vendor responded smartly.