Spouting Shite

Putting private data in the cloud may be breaking the law

At CloudCamp Gateshead I gave a presentation on how putting personal data in the cloud is a major problem for companies. This was a presentation that I borrowed from Daragh O’Brien (Castlebridge Associates).

The presentation covered areas such as:

• The cloud computing promise — a nirvana where all your needs are catered for in a scalable and magical way
• The spanner in the works — the data commissioner (boooo!!)
• The actual problems — not having a sufficient contract with your provider and the movement of data outside the legal jurisdiction
• Nailing the exit closed — problems selling your business due to non-compliance with the various data protection acts
• Recommendations — some basic examples of how we (StormMQ and Rozmic) help our clients to get around these issues.

Have a look at the video and my slide deck below. I apologise for jumping around and my stuttered delivery….I did not practice the presentation properly in advance!!