Beware the geopolitically dis-integrated clean cloud
January 3, 2014
Grazed from ComputerWeekly. Author: Adrian Bridgwater.
Developers should take note of the more evolved and complex nature of cloud computing environments in the wider sphere of total computing ecosystems — so much so that they should consider cloud as sometimes, more than just "simple" software application development processing and storage capacity capabilities supplied as a service.
Sometimes, a cloud is not just a cloud. Now we also have to consider the fact that a cloud can be a Geopolitical Cloud. SAP cloud computing evangelist Sven Denecken reminds us that in China you need a local Chinese cloud and that, unfortunately, security and data protection concerns have accelerated the geopolitical discussion around cloud datacentre location dramatically in recent times…
But warns Denecken, "There is a risk for all if the cloud becomes too fragmented [as a result of wider geopolitical dis-integration]."…
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