Can Domestic-Only Cloud Services Address Cloud Computing Risks?
August 17, 2014
Grazed from CipherCloud. Author: Michael Higashi.
The cloud technology landscape has grown more complicated and more fraught with FUD in recent months. This is being driven by the ever-changing landscape of data residency and data privacy laws, and the growing mountain of revelations of government agencies demanding cloud service providers (CSPs) to hand over private consumer and enterprise data. For markets outside the United States, fears are particularly strong that any data stored on US soil or by US-based CSPs is vulnerable to NSA surveillance.
Some CSPs headquartered outside the US are leveraging these fearsDomestic-Only Cloud Services Address Cloud Computing Risks to push a model of domestic-only data centers as a way of addressing the cloud computing risks surrounding data residency and privacy…
North of the US border, for example, “German software giant SAP announced plans to open its first Canadian data center,” a decision made to “help the company accommodate Canadian customers looking for in-country SAP cloud solutions,” as Business Cloud News reported recently. In fact, according to IDC research, a whopping 60 percent of Canadian cloud customers prefer their cloud services “to be delivered within Canada”…
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