Comments on: In your opinion, it’s positive or negative to know where Google Data Centers are located? http://www.cloudviews.org/2009/05/in-your-opinion-its-positive-or-negative-to-know-where-google-data-centers-are-located/ Sun, 31 Jan 2010 10:59:05 +0000 hourly 1 http://wordpress.org/?v=3.0.1 By: pcalcada http://www.cloudviews.org/2009/05/in-your-opinion-its-positive-or-negative-to-know-where-google-data-centers-are-located/comment-page-1/#comment-153 pcalcada Tue, 16 Jun 2009 11:09:07 +0000 http://www.cloudviews.org/?p=905#comment-153 Although nowadays, in the legal perspective, the location of a company's data is very important, we have to admit that Cloud Computing paradigm is, at least, obliging to rethink this perspective in order to adjust it to the elasticity and ubiquity of the technologies promoted by it. As you have said, it's important to know what the vendors are doing with our data, but in the end it will be everything about reputation, trust links and contracts, because that is the bases of our economic system. Vendors have to build good reputation because that will be the only way to create trust links with costumers. Opening their doors (vendors' datacenters doors) will definitely help, but it won't be enough, a costumer will have alway to have procedures to avoid vendor's lock in, etc, etc... Although nowadays, in the legal perspective, the location of a company’s data is very important, we have to admit that Cloud Computing paradigm is, at least, obliging to rethink this perspective in order to adjust it to the elasticity and ubiquity of the technologies promoted by it.

As you have said, it’s important to know what the vendors are doing with our data, but in the end it will be everything about reputation, trust links and contracts, because that is the bases of our economic system. Vendors have to build good reputation because that will be the only way to create trust links with costumers. Opening their doors (vendors’ datacenters doors) will definitely help, but it won’t be enough, a costumer will have alway to have procedures to avoid vendor’s lock in, etc, etc…

]]> By: Maria Spínola http://www.cloudviews.org/2009/05/in-your-opinion-its-positive-or-negative-to-know-where-google-data-centers-are-located/comment-page-1/#comment-151 Maria Spínola Thu, 04 Jun 2009 00:50:15 +0000 http://www.cloudviews.org/?p=905#comment-151 I think the following statement is the perfect balance between confidence (Do You Know Where Your Cloud's Data Center Is?) and risk management: "What vendors are doing needs to be made public ... The exact measures don't need to be aired, but the degree of security provided needs to be stated, then audited by a trustworthy third party, who concludes whether the vendor is doing what it claims to be doing." Source: http://www.informationweek.com/cloud-computing/blog/archives/2009/06/its_6_oclock_do.html I think the following statement is the perfect balance between confidence (Do You Know Where Your Cloud’s Data Center Is?) and risk management:

“What vendors are doing needs to be made public … The exact measures don’t need to be aired, but the degree of security provided needs to be stated, then audited by a trustworthy third party, who concludes whether the vendor is doing what it claims to be doing.”

Source: http://www.informationweek.com/cloud-computing/blog/archives/2009/06/its_6_oclock_do.html

]]> By: Maria Spínola http://www.cloudviews.org/2009/05/in-your-opinion-its-positive-or-negative-to-know-where-google-data-centers-are-located/comment-page-1/#comment-150 Maria Spínola Sun, 31 May 2009 23:08:26 +0000 http://www.cloudviews.org/?p=905#comment-150 Google secrecy about Data Centers (on April 11th, 2008, I hope they keep it): "Google has made it difficult both to find out where they keep their data centers and how many they have. One big reason for this is that almost all IP addresses that Google uses (and there are a lot of them) are listed to their Mountain View, California address, so just looking at IP addresses (with IP WHOIS or IP-to-location databases) won’t help you figure out where their data centers are or how many they have." Source: http://royal.pingdom.com/2008/04/11/map-of-all-google-data-center-locations/ Google secrecy about Data Centers (on April 11th, 2008, I hope they keep it):

“Google has made it difficult both to find out where they keep their data centers and how many they have. One big reason for this is that almost all IP addresses that Google uses (and there are a lot of them) are listed to their Mountain View, California address, so just looking at IP addresses (with IP WHOIS or IP-to-location databases) won’t help you figure out where their data centers are or how many they have.”

Source: http://royal.pingdom.com/2008/04/11/map-of-all-google-data-center-locations/

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