Before we dig into this, let me say up front, I am looking for a little reader participation on this one.  I know what the clouderati think about this topic, but I really want to hear from regular folks—the ones that will be writing checks and putting the reputations is not their jobs on the line.

Over the weekend, I got a chance to catch up on my reading and ran across a couple of articles on online backup services, one in Macworld, and one in Time magazine, the latter is about as mainstream as you can get.  Both articles were well done and covered things like pricing, ease of use, but both missed what I think is the most salient point.