The growing buzz around cloud computing the past few years has resurfaced what are really ever-present concerns in information technology and data management. The topics of trust, security, compliance and regulation — they’re not going to go away.
Does anyone really expect that, say, the government’s appetite for regulation and rules regarding digital records will decrease?
There was a time you could take a server, put it in a room, watch it, work on it, replace it. Now, with virtual machines, they can be created and spun up anywhere, wherever those resources are available. Many of our types of clients have certain requirements for data, however, they need to be able to answer, “Is it within the bounds of a state or country? Who is accessing that data? Do I have proof that the data hasn’t been moved or changed, and if so who did the moving and changing?”
