Re: "Follow the Law" computing

Laws and policies don't change often on a single region (USA), taken across a global infrastructure they changes very quickly. I agree with most of James points. I posted thread about "GeoPolitical Cloud Computing" a few weeks ago which touched upon the some of the same points.

On a side note, my biggest issue with Nick Carr is he very theoretical, I prefer a more practical look at infrastructure from people who are actually building these next generation data centers.

Nice Job on the post.

Reuven

On Fri, Jun 13, 2008 at 10:25 AM, Chris Marino <c...@snaplogic.com> wrote:

Laws and policies don't change very fast, if at all. Can't think of any
circumstances where I'd really want to move or migrate data because of
this.

Seems like a stretch to me.
CM

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>I posted about a subject that I thought this group may like to chew on.
>
>- There is a theory out there about using cloud
>technologies--both public and private--to save on operational
>costs (such as electricity and cooling) by moving compute load
>over the course of an earth day to the dark side of the
>planet. It is generally called "follow the moon".
>
>- However, both Canada and France have provided examples of
>policies set with the Geopolitical realities of "the cloud" in
>mind. (Canada prohibits public IT projects from running in US
>data centers due to the Patriot Act, and France refuses to
>allow government employees to use Blackberries as the
>communications are processed in the UK and US where France
>fears interception risk is high.)
>
>- So, why not consider moving workload to wherever the current
>task is "most legal" using a combination of database sharding,
>database replication and vmotion/livemotion. At the very
>least, make it damn near impossible for a single jurisdiction
>to nail you with a violation.
>
>See http://blog.jamesurquhart.com/2008/06/follow-law-computing.html
>for the detailed rundown.
>
>I can't shake this vision, though I know there are many holes.
> What do you think?
>
>James
>
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