Dealing with data sovereignty issues and the Cloud
August 8, 2013
Grazed from ComputerWorld. Author: Randall Jackson.
The issue of data sovereignty is starting to drive business decision making with regard to data held in the cloud, according to New Zealand email security and hosting company SMX. SMX co-founder and chief technology officer, Thom Hooker, said government organisations are particularly sensitive about the sovereignty issue, which is a driver behind SMX’s high uptake among government and local government organisations.
More than half of New Zealand’s local government organisations and around one third of the District Health Boards have now subscribed to SMX’s cloud service. Hooker said data sovereignty is an even more important issue nowadays as businesses begin to move mail servers to the Cloud…
“In the past, when organisations ran their own email servers, business owners, CIOs and IT managers knew where their data was located. In this era of commoditised cloud computing many of the large global players in this space prefer that you don’t ask where your data is stored. In SMX’s case we’ve always been very open about deploying email infrastructure in the same jurisdiction that we sell our services.”…
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