Thursday, July 10, 2008

Re: Why won't people use clouds: The grey part of the silver lining

If your potential customer bought that line they are fools. The data in
the cloud isn't MORE secure, it can't be. There are more people involved
in the systems and hence more opportunities for the data to be compromised.

Chuck Wegrzyn

Ray Nugent wrote:
> I met with a potential customer today and the requisite data security
> questions started to rain down. I asked them how secure the data in
> their data center was and then produced a 2 gig USB drive from my
> pocket and dropped it on the table. It got kind of quiet for a bit and
> then the discussion turned to how much MORE secure data would be in a
> cloud with more control over who has physical access to the data.
> Great discussion though...
>
> Ray

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