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By Paul Miller on June 10, 2013
I wasn’t going to talk about the current fuss around PRISM, but the speed with which conjecture, rumour and some (good) newspaper investigative work has turned into ‘fact’ and ‘truth’ online makes this worth addressing. The conjecture may be correct. The NSA, the FBI, TLA and ETLA might be plugged right into the data centres of the […]
Posted in Featured Posts, Trends & Concepts | Tagged cloud computing, cybersecurity, data protection, FBI, National Security Agency, New York Times, NSA, Patriot Act, prism, safe harbor, snooping, spying, The Guardian, Washington Post |
By Ofir Nachmani on April 18, 2013
In my journey through the cloud I often come across great new initiatives. The interesting fact is that although the cloud is a pure revolution terms such as SLA, TCO and ROI remain valid, new methodologies and techniques are presented to support them in the cloud. I recently met Uri Wolloch, the founder of N2W […]
Posted in Application Software, Featured Posts, Platforms | Tagged amazon, Amazon Elastic Compute Cloud, Amazon Web Services, backup, cloud computing, data protection, disaster recovery, High Availability |
By Paul Miller on January 9, 2012
Microsoft announced last month that its Software as a Service (SaaS) offering, Office 365, will better comply with European guidelines to ensure that customer data is adequately protected. This move is certainly welcome, but the long-armed spectre of the USA PATRIOT Act continues to hang over Microsoft and other US companies, regardless of customers’ nationality […]
Posted in Featured Posts, Trends & Concepts | Tagged amazon, cloud computing, data privacy, data protection, data protection act, Data Protection Directive, dpa, European Commission, european data protection, European Union, European Union law, microsoft, Microsoft Office 365, Office 365, Patriot Act, personal privacy, United States |