From Mary Brown | August 11th, 2009
Robert Lemos of CIO.com addresses the benefits that the cloud provides to organizations in terms of not having to invest in basic IT infrastructure. However, he also identifies some important pitfalls that need to be avoided. One pitfall includes the fact that data held by a provider may well be under less stringent discovery rules than data held within the organization. This presents some interesting considerations particularly for those who are collecting and storing regulated information. What are some of the mitigation strategies that you would recommend to those opting to hand over their data to a 3rd party vendor?
Share your thoughts and comments.
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From Mary Brown | May 28th, 2009
I attended a security conference recently, where the consensus seemed to be that cloud computing is here to stay. This is despite the fact that most organizations do not truly understand the implications of storing their data over the Internet on servers outside of their control. According to ZDNetAsia, the CTO of Sun Microsystems is hoping to create a forum to look into this particular issue.
What has been your experience with storing data out in the cloud? Do you recommend it, and if so, do you have strategies for mitigating some of the associated risks that you would like to share?
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