Private clouds: A valuable concept or buzzword bingo?

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Governance and Control are a serious isssue...: The blog seemed to try to downplay the loss of control of business information and data like it was the same as losing control of an electricity grid. The two things are not the same. When the electricity grid goes down, sure business stops but when the grid comes back up, the business state resumes for the most part. When your data is stolen, sold, or access is denied, your business does not get to resume.

Recently a bank sent valuable customer information to a random Google account. The owner of the Google account didn't respond to the e-mail in the way the bank wanted so the bank had Google shut the account down with out the owners permission. Note: I don't think I have the right to link to the story or I would.

Now image that happening to your company. Do you want to be the CEO of a company that just lost all of it's data cause the cloud services didn't back it up? Do you want your company shut down cause a foreign government asked you cloud provider to shut you down with out notification? Do you want to be the CEO of a compay whose private strategies get publicly published by people dissatisfied with your business model?

I don't hate Cloud Computing but I do recognise that anything put in a cloud whether it is Google, a Cloud Service provider, or just the Internet itself is effectively putting information and data to everyone in the world in an open and readable format. If you don't mind people knowing the data, it works, if it is something you don't want the general public to know about, you might want some privacy guarantees before putting it in a cloud.; Posted by: mr1972 Posted on: 10/01/09 You are currently: a Guest | Members login | Terms of Use