Cloud Buying Behavior In The Post-Snowden Era
April 15, 2014
Grazed from Forbes. Author: Ben Kepes.
Many cloud vendors predicted that Edward Snowden’s whistle blowing about widespread NSA surveillance would fundamentally change the technology landscape in general, and the cloud computing landscape in particular. The theory went that customers, wary of their most intimate corporate data being perused by US agencies, would flock to non US cloud vendors to give them security over their data.
Non US vendors such as OnApp and GreenQloud, along with regional service providers such as telcos, either publicly or privately had a view of increasing levels of interest in their services as an alternative to AWS, Google, Microsoft MSFT -0.05% and the other global cloud vendors…
But while there have been a never ending list of press releases from one or another non US based vendor saying just how worried customers really are, the incumbent vendors – from AWS to Microsoft, from Rackspace to Google GOOG -2.22%, don’t look to be suffering from any kind of customer mass exodus…
Read more from the source @ http://www.forbes.com/sites/benkepes/2014/04/15/cloud-buying-behavior-in-the-post-snowden-era/
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