[Info-vax] The new world that VMS will be living in

[Dave Froble]

On 12/7/2020 2:44 PM, Arne Vajhøj wrote:
> On 12/7/2020 2:35 PM, Bill Gunshannon wrote:
>> On 12/7/20 2:10 PM, Arne Vajhøj wrote:
>>> Deutsche Bank just announced that they have signed with
>>> Google to move most of their IT To Google cloud.
>>>
>>>  From the press:
>>>
>>> <quote>
>>> The two companies on Friday finalized a cloud computing agreement
>>> under which the German lender plans to shift most of its data onto
>>> Google servers, technology head Bernd Leukert said in a phone interview.
>>> ...
>>> The deal will include “applications at the heart of our IT,” Leukert
>>> said in an interview,
>>> </quote>
>>>
>>> This follow that Capital One closed down their last data center
>>> a month ago after migrating everything to Amazon cloud.
>>>
>>> VMS will need to function - and function well - in such new
>>> environments.
>>
>> Once you move your data to The Cloud it ceases to be your
>> data.
>
> I do not see that.
>
> It is legally still your data.
>
> And assuming proper encryption is used, then you have access
> to data while the cloud provider does not have access to data.
>
> Arne
>

I believe that you totally miss Bill's point.  The issue is whether your 
data is protected from loss.

There have already been instances of cloud providers going out of 
business, and customer's data being lost.  Now, that's a hell of a way 
to run a business.

Yes, one can lose data on computers.  But one can mitigate the situation 
with reliable backups and other procedures.  In the cloud, one might not 
have such control of data protection.

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