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Cloud Legislation Cloud Legislation is an interesting topic and a must for those organisation considering moving producton environmnets in to the cloud especially if they have sensitive customer or commercial data. There are both European Directives (European Data Protection Act) that need to be complied with and also and more significantly there is American legislation that has a direct impact on American Cloud Providers (Amazon Web Services, Oracle, Cisco, IBM) and acces to data hosted or provided as part of their Global service even if the data is retained in the host country (UK) or Europe. Recently in 2012 BAE Systems has been prevented from using Office 365 citing that their legal team would not allow them to sign up to a company wide agreement due to the terms of the patriot act. This would mean that all USA based companies would have to abide by the terms and therefore any European based organisations could be put at risk. January 2012 Technocrati Article on BAE Position - click here December 2011 Microsoft head admits that European Data comes under Patriot Act for US Companies - click here Article on European position and current machinations within Congress to resolve Patriot issue click here April 2011 Factual Analysis of Patriot Act - click here excellent article ZD Net Article on How USA can Access Euopean Company Data - click here |
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What the Hell is Cloud Computing!!" - Larry Ellison CEO Oracle Corporation "Cloud computing is not only the future of computing, it is the present and the entire past of computing... All it is is a computer attached to a network ... Our industry is so bizarre. They change a term and think they've invented a technology." - Larry Ellison CEO Oracle Corporation "The cloud services companies of all sizes…The cloud is for everyone. The cloud is a democracy."- Marc Benioff - CEO - Salesforce.com. "Cloud computing will be as big as e-Business" - Gartner Group" "Behind every Cloud there is another Cloud" - Judy Garland "With the cloud, individuals and small businesses can snap their fingers and instantly set up enterprise-class services." Roy Stephenson Intilligent Decisions Every Cloud has a Silver Lining but it is sometimes a little difficult to get it to the mint" - Don Marquis "Our industry is going through quite a wave of innovation and it's being powered by a phenomenon which is referred to as the cloud." Steve Ballmer CEO Microsoft
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