[Info-vax] IE8 got me too :-( Sorry Jeff.

[Arne Vajhøj]

On 20-01-2010 21:24, Richard B. Gilbert wrote:
> Arne Vajhøj wrote:
>> On 20-01-2010 09:39, AEF wrote:
>>> On Jan 18, 10:00 am, billg... at cs.uofs.edu (Bill Gunshannon) wrote:
>>>> I would prefer to see the corresponence and data that
>>>> my business relied on to remain under my control.
>>>
>>> We agree! I couldn't believe it when I first hear of putting your
>>> business's data in the "cloud".
>>
>> Lots of companies are outsourcing operations.
>>
>> The benefit by cloud over traditional outsourcing is that
>> you pay for usage - you can have 2 CPU's this week,
>> 25 CPU's next week and 7 CPU's the week after - and you only
>> pay for actual usage.
>>
>> Sure you can not hop into an airplane, fly to India, be shown
>> a computer room and have somebody point to a rack and say "THAT
>> is your system", but that is not a real problem.
>>
>> (making applications run functionally and secure in cloud context
>> do raise some technical problems that need to be solved)
>
> But where is the customer's data and who is making backups? Who, besides
> you, has access to your data?

Who has access if you make a traditional outsourcing/hosting?

It is many years since companies decided that was OK.

Given the trend to encrypt everything sensitive even within
ones own datacenter, then many companies apparantly ask
the same question for those.

Arne