It has not been too long since Google lost millions of e-mails and struggled to get most (!) of them back for customers. Amazon recently had cloud issues where they were not able to restore all the data their cloud customers had placed on their servers.
I recently sat in on a presentation hosted by the Chattanooga Technology Council called "Cloud Computing: Separating Fact from Fiction." The Google and Amazon situations were discussed in this meeting and IT leaders questioned whether the cloud was secure enough yet for any other than benign data.
Are you ready for the cloud? If so, will you use a public service or a private cloud?
Companies are being urged to go virtual and into the cloud to be competitive. We usually read advice to use private clouds, not public clouds. Controlling our own cloud can afford some degree of protection beyond security on public clouds; however, they are both accessible through an IP address, making both types of cloud vulnerable.
But in addition to the security and data integrity of cloud computing, legal and compliance issues become more ah, clouded, – OK, more complex – when we enter the cloud.
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Source: networkworld.com
By: M. E. Kabay and Gordon Merrill Gordon Merrill
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