Can cloud computing overcome its crisis of confidence?
February 18, 2014
Grazed from TheGuardian. Author: Editorial Staff.
Last year saw a whole host of news – from the NSA revelations around data and privacy breaches, to examples of lost customer data – that caused businesses and consumers to question governments, technology and, more specifically, the cloud. As the cloud has risen up the agenda over the last few years, I thought we’d left behind arguments about the perceived negatives, particularly security.
So I was somewhat surprised to also read an article from Chi Onwurah, Labour MP for Newcastle Central, late last year, who said she was "reluctantly and unhappily" moving to the cloud. Onwurah said that she doesn’t think cloud computing is "fully ready for the mass consumer market", and that she, like many others, has worries over security and data protection…
Clearly, the government has very specific data security concerns, but what this shows is that despite the best efforts of cloud computing providers and other companies operating in the space, reluctance remains…
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