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Risks
Cloud computing is a relatively new development and many risks are still being identified and addressed.
In 2008 analyst firm Gartner identified seven “risks” of cloud computing, which are commonly referenced. These are: privileged user access (keeping sensitive information with a third party has inherent risks because you’re bypassing your company’s own IT shop); regulatory compliance (customers are responsible for their own security and data integrity); data location (you don’t know where the information is physically being stored, it could be anywhere in the world); data segregation (your data is stored alongside other people’s data and an encryption failure could make your data completely unusable); recovery (what happens in a disaster? Is the data being replicated?); investigative support (inappropriate or illegal activity might be hard or impossible to investigate); long-term viability (what happens if your provider is bought-out or bankrupted?).
Cloud computing uses technology to break down national borders but unfortunately legal systems cannot be evaded so easily
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Customers who have opted for cloud need to be aware of some of the issues in the small print of the contract
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Expectations may have been too high and knowledge scarce, but we have much to learn from the early adopters of cloud computing.
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Survey finds most small businesses improve disaster recovery plans using server virtualisation and cloud.
Study finds small companies embracing cloud, security worries overstated.
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The Government’s G-Cloud project continues to get support from Whitehall, with the Ministry of Justice the latest to endorse.
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