Despite being a great hope for IT managers to reduce data storage costs, we are seeing a growing concern about the complexities of cloud computing creating major issues for system integration, data integrity, data migration, access and (gasp) record-keeping. This May 15 issue of CIO magazine that I received had several sidebars to a major article entitled " Cloud Computing: What CIOs Need to Know About Integration".
See http://tinyurl.com/33wezt5
After a discussion of the thorny issues for IT managers regarding how to integrate cloud environments with their IT architectures, on the next to the last page (5) it says "Still, some industries may find only marginal use for cloud computing because integration can't be done as transparently as it can on-premise, says Colburn, the Finra CIO. Financial services companies must deal with so many compliance issues that a clear and complete view of their vendors' operations is imperative, he says. For example, like other securities exchanges and associations, Finra must adhere to the strict recordkeeping regulations in the Securities Exchange Act, which require keeping many documents, including e-mail messages, for five years. For the first three years, they must be "easily accessible." If a cloud provider won't specify exactly where Finra's e-mail is at any given time, Colburn says, he can't be sure that it is easily accessible. So for now, Finra's e-mail will stay in the regulator's own data centers, he says."
There is some discussion of the thorniness of standards. But the main theme of this article is that cloud computing is so complex that is even daunting to IT managers, not to mention CFOs and CEOs. It would seem a good area for records managers to keep asking about record-keeping risks. For all of the data/records stored in the cloud-o-sphere.
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John Phillips
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Subject: RAINdrip: Feds REALLY want to move into the Cloud (really they do!)
http://bit.ly/b9pFnK
And this article is going a long way towards expressing just how they plan
to do that, now that after 2 (well almost 3) months of delays, the RFP is
out... sort of.
And talk about TRUE DOUBLE SPEAK DOUBLE SPEAK... read this portion of the
article and see if you can tell me what it means, cuz I'm lost! This sounds
as if it came right out of "Alice in Wonderland"... we are developing
standards, but they're NOT REALLY standards, they're tests that show stuff
works!
"Finally, NIST announced Thursday that it has decided to help facilitate the
collaborative development of standards for cloud computing in an effort it
calls Standards Acceleration to Jumpstart Adoption of Cloud Computing
(SAJACC). According to Dawn Leaf, NIST's new senior executive for cloud
computing, SAJACC aims to accelerate the development of cloud standards and
develop some consensus around elements of cloud computing which are amenable
to standardization.
In general terms, SAJACC will define specific use cases cloud computing
standards could cover, such as moving a virtual machine between clouds,
develop methods to test whether those scenarios are actually possible by
creating test specs and executing against them, and posting this information
on a cloud standards portal that it plans to launch.
"We're not trying to write cloud computing standards, but are trying to do
some testing on reasonable system interfaces or specifications of systems
and make the test results available so people can see something is
absolutely possible because the test results show it," NIST senior computer
scientist Lee Badger said Thursday."
Even when Frank Gorshin played The Riddler on Batman he couldn't come up
with one THIS good!
Larry
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