Legal issues such as data privacy and compliance regs may have you considering where the clouds actually reside
Clouds are everywhere and can be used from anywhere, right? Wrong. The fact is that when considering national laws, you may find that your data is legally not able to leave the border.
That's the case in many parts of Europe that forbid some data from being transmitted or stored outside of the country. Canada also has some rules that prohibit some data being stored in the United States due to the U.S. Patriot Act's provisions that let the federal government examine corporate records.
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To get around this issue, several cloud computing providers, such as Amazon.com and Salesforce.com, have points of presence in many developed countries. There's a performance argument for this distribution of systems, but another reason is to adhere to many laws directing where some data can legally reside.
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Source: infoworld.com
By: David Linthicum
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