3 years ago
For the company I was looking for a cloud provider...
For the company I was looking for a cloud provider who made it a point of honor not to share the data and that the servers are on European soil. The latter already makes a difference, so certainly later. In the end 2 candidates remained, Tresorit and Vboxx. The final decision was made on the basis of email (Tresorit, Vboxx), chat (Vboxx) and telephone (Vboxx). It has become Vboxx. I think the low threshold for them to be able to speak to a person by telephone or via chat is FANTASTIC. Of course our company (SME) was then still a prospect. After 9 months as a customer I can still confirm that this has not changed.
It was a very difficult decision for us as a company to go to the Cloud. No matter how you look at it, you provide confidential data to an external party. I do not understand why large European companies deal so loosely with choosing their Cloud partners who, for example, fall under US law. Only 3 months later, after choosing Vboxx, we fully went for the cloud. Reason 1 is the fact that as a company you can still protect your data, you cannot control what employees do with this data. If you don't give them a tool themselves, they use Dropbox, One drive and Google drive. Because they do choose to have their data with them everywhere through an external company. Reason 2 is ransomware. If you know that these types of viruses encrypt EVERYTHING, really EVERYTHING, on the same network (yes, also the backup systems!), Then I would prefer that our data is external so that you can go back 90 days, for example. As an SME this is simply not a part where you want to invest a lot of time and money, you cannot keep up with the hacker / virus world, let alone defend yourself against it. "It does not happen to me" principle should really not be the reaction. Prevention is better than cure. Reason 3, how much confidential data is already sent internally, which also ends up on external servers? As an SME you do not escape the Cloud, so choose your partner yourself.