Comments on: Location independence in the cloud not always a good thing http://insidehpc.com/2008/09/18/location-independence-in-the-cloud-not-always-a-good-thing/ HPC News Without the Noise for Supercomputing Professionals | insideHPC Sun, 09 Jun 2013 01:54:13 +0000 hourly 1 http://wordpress.org/?v=3.1.1 By: John West http://insidehpc.com/2008/09/18/location-independence-in-the-cloud-not-always-a-good-thing/#comment-94373 John West Thu, 18 Sep 2008 19:51:46 +0000 http://insidehpc.com/?p=2294#comment-94373 Greg - great observation. The US federal government obviously has many concerns in this area as well for their data, and I imagine and some of the Sarbanes Oxley provisions would cause problems for US companies in this regard as well. Hadn't thought of this angle before. Thanks! Greg – great observation. The US federal government obviously has many concerns in this area as well for their data, and I imagine and some of the Sarbanes Oxley provisions would cause problems for US companies in this regard as well.

Hadn’t thought of this angle before. Thanks!

]]> By: Greg Pfister http://insidehpc.com/2008/09/18/location-independence-in-the-cloud-not-always-a-good-thing/#comment-94368 Greg Pfister Thu, 18 Sep 2008 19:43:09 +0000 http://insidehpc.com/?p=2294#comment-94368 There's at least one non-performance reason location transparency cannot mean location invisibility: Geopolitics. It may be illegal for your data to be held in the country where the cloud server resides. For example, certain Canadian privacy laws are apparently in conflict with some US Patriot Act provisions, so Canadian companies should be careful where their servers are located. There’s at least one non-performance reason location transparency cannot mean location invisibility: Geopolitics. It may be illegal for your data to be held in the country where the cloud server resides. For example, certain Canadian privacy laws are apparently in conflict with some US Patriot Act provisions, so Canadian companies should be careful where their servers are located.

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