Last week, in discussing findings from the BT Global Services Enterprise Intelligence survey, I wrote about why cloud computing environment location matters:
“Many of the clouderati will tell you that the physical location of the cloud computing environment shouldn’t matter to adopters. While technically and architecturally this might be true, given appropriate and reliable network connections, there are business implications of physical location. Most notably, regulatory and compliance concerns for cloud-resident data.”
Today, via Twitter, I became aware of an Interactive Data Protection Heat Map, published by Forrester, and shared on their Infrastructure & Operations Professionals blog:
“To help you grasp the varying scope of regulatory requirements at a high level, we’ve also created an interactive privacy heat map that denotes the degree of strictness — highlighting scope of protection, affected entities, ‘adequacy’ standards met, and heavily surveilled countries — across national data protection regulation.”
The map is in Flash, go check it out.
Related posts:
- James Urquhart: It’s not (just) the data destination, it’s also the journey
- Forrester to Enterprise Architects: Use Cloud Phenomenon to Boost Role as Business Advisor
- BT Global Services Enterprise Intelligence Research Report: Location does matter in Cloud Computing
- MWD Advisors Survey: Cloud Computing is Fundamentally about Service Delivery & Consumption
- @ Forrester IT Forum: James Staten, How much of your future is in the Cloud?
