RE: "Follow the Law" computing

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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>Sent: Friday, June 13, 2008 12:09 AM
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>Subject: "Follow the Law" computing
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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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