IT needs to get over its cloud denial, or management will get over IT

Re:IT needs to get over its cloud denial, or management will... by buro9 on Monday February 02, 2009 @02:18PM (#462715)

I read stuff like this, and the same questions that I've put to Microsoft and Amazon come round again... can data placed in the cloud be kept within a geographic/legal set of borders through policy and how do we approach compliance rules for archiving, freedom of information and data protection?

To these questions, deafening silence or waffle. Never a serious and practical response.

The cloud is immature in terms of it's enterprise applications until these kind of questions are being addressed with multiple answers.

For small business the cloud may be a godsend, but to the enterprise the cloud is something for the small guys to play with that might make them better customers/partners.

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Re:IT needs to get over its cloud denial, or management will... by wildwood on Monday February 02, 2009 @04:26PM (#462909)

The docs for Amazon S3 state that a bucket can either be kept in the US or in the EU. How precise a location are you needing? (They're not going to have multiple data centers per zip code.)

Aside from that, I'm not sure what role you would expect them to take for archiving - isn't it your job to decide what data needs storing, and how to organize it?

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