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Rich Miller: The Cloud Computing Compliance Conundrum

Posted: February 08, 2010

There’s lots of discussion about worries about security in the cloud. Chris Hoff writes today that cloud security concerns are often intermingled with compliance, which is quickly becoming a key factor in establishing comfort for enterprise users.

“The only measure that counts in the long run is how compliant you are,” he writes. “That’s what will determine the success of Cloud. Don’t believe me? Look at how the leading vendors in Cloud are responding today to their biggest (potential) customers — taking the ‘one size fits all’ model of mass-market Cloud and beginning to chop it up and create one-off’s in order to satisfy…compliance.”

more of the Data Center Knowledge article from Rich Miller

Categories: CIO Strategy,Colocation Compliance,Data Center,Data Center Certification,Data Center Compliance

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