“What struck me about BEYOND

my research is just how cloud

high up the corporate

agenda the issue has

gone.”

Data sovereignty is the

single biggest concern for

clients outside the US that

are looking at adopting

public cloud computing,

reports advisory firm

Gartner.

However, nearly a third

of executives polled by

Larato said that it was

hard to find information

about data sovereignty.

“It is a minefield for us,”

‘

longer the case,” explains reported one financial

These concerns

Larato managing director services company. “There

are shared by

Lucy Green. is even some confusion

clients who

about whether you own

believe there are

“Cloud service providers your data on Facebook or

risks associated

can shift a client whether it is in the public

with having their

organisation’s resources domain.

personal details

between servers within

stored outside

’

a data centre and even “Regulation by the

of the UK

between data centres Financial Services

Lucy Green

as required. Those data Authority is not

centres can potentially be prescriptive they don’t tell

located anywhere in the you what the right things

world. are... [continued] 9