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Jun 5 2008   12:07PM GMT

Overheard: Cloud computing too big a risk for mission critical apps



Posted by: Margaret Rouse
risk management, Cloud computing
paul-wallis.jpg The nature of Grid/Cloud computing means a business has to migrate its applications and data to a third party solution. This creates huge barriers to the uptake.

Paul Wallis, Is the Cloud There Yet?

Recently we’ve seen the London Stock Exchange fail, undersea data cables cut in the Gulf, espionage in Lithuania and the failure of the most modern and well-known data farm at Amazon.

In such a climate it will require asking the business to take a leap of faith to find solid footing in the cloud for mission critical applications.

And that is never a good way to sell to the business.

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Kvjacksn  |   Jun 5 2008   4:22PM GMT

This basically means that there is a need for “secure cloud” solution providers. This will be a subset of the cloud computing industry that will service government, financial, defense and other industries that value (and are willing to pay for) high security clouds. Just last month the US Defense Information Systems Agency announced a cloud initiative. That means the sub-industry formation is well underway.