Whilst many cloud providers may play it down, one of the Intel fellows claims we still have a lot of questions around security and privacy to answer before strong cloud adoption takes hold.
Cloud computing may be the hot topic in technology right now but an Intel fellow has warned there are still questions that need to be answered before full scale adoption becomes a reality.
During a panel discussion with a number of fellows at IDF 2010, Kevin Kahn, Intel senior fellow and director of the communications technology lab, claimed the questions marks hovering over security and privacy in the cloud were yet to be dealt with.
“We really have a lot of questions to answer about how cloud computing rolls out, particularly in the area of privacy and security,” he said.
“[For example] what exactly is the legal status of your data if you are using a cloud service that happens to put one of their data centres in France? You are a US citizen perhaps, you think you are dealing with a US company, but because of the time of day, the maintenance schedule of the data centre here, your data happens to be in another country. What is your legal status?”
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Source: itpro.co.uk
By: Jennifer Scott
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