The first part—if it’s not viable for some people now, it surely will be, and probably soon.
Ok - so the hope is with you.

with regards
In the past the inteligence services all over the world were in business
in all kind of investigations.Sometimes a dirty business.We all knew this a bit from
Cinema and via Tom Clancy. Later goverments noticed a need to avert danger coming from industrial espionage.
The services in some countrys were ask by officials to fight against and to protect the most sensitive homeland companys.
Then they found out the forreign spys are the same boddys they fight against in the past?
No piracy from private gangsters - piracy from official services of friendly countries (and from some unfriendly of cause) - we just know the comon issues as industrial espionage.
Todays easy going in this business
is total different.
There is no need of gangsters,spys,
intelligence service.
Beause of : big companys are using clouds.
The safety ? - there is no problem for college boys to get datas.
with regards
PS : SOME years later some were confused about " What - a cloud is not 1000% safe ??? - a friend worked at a general dynamics plant - they are also using clouds- there!!"
No they don't - one come into prism if one is trying to upload datas on a cloud server!!
The question is still :Why General Dynamics did not use a cloud from the first day this funny technologie was born?