Cloud Computing's Stormy Side


	Cloud Computing's Stormy Side

dewitte

2-20-2008 3:26 PM

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<div style="margin: 12px 0px; font-family: arial; color: #333333; background: #ffffff; border: solid 4px #e5e5e5; width: 100%; clear: left;"><div class="CM_CTB_Content_Wrap" style="margin: 0px; padding: 0px;background-color: #ffffff;"><div style="border-bottom: solid 1px #dcdcdc; white-space: nowrap; margin-bottom: 8px; background-color: #eeeeee ;background-image: url(http://www.clipmarks.com/images/source-bg.gif); background-repeat: repeat-x; height: 24px; line-height: 24px; vertical-align: middle; padding-bottom: 4px; color: #666666; font-size: 10px;" ><a href="http://clipmarks.com/clip-to-blog/" title="see clips that are hot right now"><img src="http://content.clipmarks.com/blog_embed/e42abb4f-cdf9-4a12-b163-3065606f714f/3921E593-56F8-41BC-9BE4-5C31D635E21D/" alt="" width="19" height="19" border="0" style="vertical-align: middle; margin: 0px 4px; display: inline; border: none; float:none;" /></a>clipped from <a title="http://www.forbes.com/2008/02/17/web-application-cloud-tech-intel-cx_ag_0219cloud.html?partner=technology_newsletter" href="http://www.forbes.com/2008/02/17/web-application-cloud-tech-intel-cx_ag_0219cloud.html?partner=technology_newsletter" style="font-size: 11px;">www.forbes.com</a></div><blockquote style="text-align: left; padding: 0px 8px; margin: 4px 0px 8px 0px; background: transparent; border: none;" cite="http://www.forbes.com/2008/02/17/web-application-cloud-tech-intel-cx_ag_0219cloud.html?partner=technology_newsletter"><P>Web applications, at a glance, appear to be <B>Google</B>'s gift to mankind. </P></blockquote><div style="height: 2px; font-size: 2px; background: #dcdcdc; border-bottom: solid 1px #f5f5f5; margin: 2px 4px;"></div><blockquote style="text-align: left; padding: 0px 8px; margin: 4px 0px 8px 0px; background: transparent; border: none;" cite="http://www.forbes.com/2008/02/17/web-application-cloud-tech-intel-cx_ag_0219cloud.html?partner=technology_newsletter"><P>The Internet giant offers users free applications such as e-mail, word processing, spreadsheets and storage, and hosts them "in the cloud"--in other words, on Google's <B></B>
    (nasdaq:
      <A class="maintkrlink" href="http://finapps.forbes.com/finapps/jsp/finance/compinfo/CIAtAGlance.jsp?tkr=GOOG">GOOG</A> -
	<A href="http://www.forbes.com/markets/company_news.jhtml?ticker=GOOG">
       news
    </A> -
    <A href="http://www.forbes.com/peopletracker/results.jhtml?startRow=0&name=&ticker=GOOG">
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    </A>) machines, not yours. Users access these programs through the Web in a format that allows for easy data sharing.</P></blockquote><div style="height: 2px; font-size: 2px; background: #dcdcdc; border-bottom: solid 1px #f5f5f5; margin: 2px 4px;"></div><blockquote style="text-align: left; padding: 0px 8px; margin: 4px 0px 8px 0px; background: transparent; border: none;" cite="http://www.forbes.com/2008/02/17/web-application-cloud-tech-intel-cx_ag_0219cloud.html?partner=technology_newsletter">But when it comes to security and privacy, cloud computing services, also offered by <B>Microsoft</B>
    (nasdaq:
      <A class="maintkrlink" href="http://finapps.forbes.com/finapps/jsp/finance/compinfo/CIAtAGlance.jsp?tkr=MSFT">MSFT</A> -
	<A href="http://www.forbes.com/markets/company_news.jhtml?ticker=MSFT">
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    </A> -
    <A href="http://www.forbes.com/peopletracker/results.jhtml?startRow=0&name=&ticker=MSFT">
       people
    </A>) and a growing number of other companies, may have a not-so-silver lining.</blockquote><div style="height: 2px; font-size: 2px; background: #dcdcdc; border-bottom: solid 1px #f5f5f5; margin: 2px 4px;"></div><blockquote style="text-align: left; padding: 0px 8px; margin: 4px 0px 8px 0px; background: transparent; border: none;" cite="http://www.forbes.com/2008/02/17/web-application-cloud-tech-intel-cx_ag_0219cloud.html?partner=technology_newsletter">Say, for instance, that an investment bank worker uses Google Spreadsheets to organize a list of employee Social Security numbers. If that file gets hacked, government investigators trying to subpoena information could approach Google for the Social Security numbers without informing the bank--the data reside on Google's servers, not the bank's.</blockquote></div><div style="margin: 0px 6px 6px 4px;"><table style="font-size: 11px;border-spacing: 0px;padding: 0px;" cellpadding="0" cellspacing="0" width="100%"><tr><td style="background:transparent;border-width:0px;padding:0px;">&nbsp;</td><td align="right" style="background:transparent;border-width:0px;padding:0px;width:107px" width="107"><a href="http://clipmarks.com/share/3921E593-56F8-41BC-9BE4-5C31D635E21D/blog/" title="blog or email this clip"><img src="http://content6.clipmarks.com/images/c2b-foot.png" border="0" alt="blog it" width="107" height="17" style="border-width:0px;padding:0px;margin:0px;" /></a></td></tr></table></div></div>

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