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Aussie, Eurozone Cloud Computing Industries Grow Gloomy On The US Patriot Act

by John on February 18, 2013

in Big Data, Business, Cloud Computing, Computing, Government, Host, IT, Security, Technology, Trends

Aussie, Eurozone Cloud Computing Industries Grow Gloomy On The US Patriot Act The European Union has resuscitated the more than a decade-old contention about data independence after giving an exposé of the US Patriot Act of 2001, which bequeaths the Federal administration, on the other side of the Atlantic, the power to seize data in any continent for surveillance reasons. The same rigmarole surrounding a legislation that is now a dozen years old has also visited upon the Australian scene, where CIOs are circumspect on whether to go ahead and store data offshore, where the United States’ forensic agencies have

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The US Government's Latest Move In Cloud Computing – FedRAMP

by Balaji on June 12, 2012

in Cloud Computing, Computing, Government, IT, Security, Storage, Trends

Five Things You Need To Know About FedRAMP The US Government’s Latest Move In Cloud Computing Last week, the US federal government launched the Federal Risk and Authorization Management Program (FedRAMP), which will help to build a single authentication standard for the government’s cloud services. During the past couple of years, the administration has built up a number of projects as  part of its cloud-first policy, and this new project could potentially reduce the burdens of CSPs working with the government. The FedRamp is yet another important initiative from the tech-savvy US administration and might eventually help build security standards

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