Cloud computing for health insurance firms? Not so fast, execs say

Health insurance and financial services industry executives say they’re not ready to trust their core data to the cloud. Executive say strict HIPAA and Sarbanes-Oxley Act regulations and security concerns make it impossible to trust much more than a few applications and back-up systems to the cloud. In this 3-minute video, taken at Interop NY last week, John Merchant, assistant vice president at The Hartford Financial Services Group, discusses the cloud computing challenges posed by regulatory and security requirements.