Sebastian Welton<https://www.mail-archive.com/[email protected]&q=from:%22Sebastian+Welton%22> wrote: >Out of interest then, how do you get around the various data privacy rules such >as GDPR which may not allow storage of certain data outside of a certain >sphere? If AWS or another cloud provider is set-up to automatically transfer >this data out of that sphere, wouldn't the company in question be subject to >multiple privacy lawsuits?
You wouldn’t “get around” regulations. You’d comply with them. A public commercial cloud consists of real data centers in multiple physical locations where you can store backup data, strongly encrypted typically. If a regulation or law says you must store these backups in a particular country then you simply pick certain data centers but not others. All the public commercial clouds I’ve ever seen let you do that. If the public commercial cloud company does something contrary to your instructions then that’s likely a contractual violation of some kind, and the public commercial cloud company may also be violating laws or regulations. Likewise, if you hire a company to pick up trash from your offices, then the company dumps your trash on the White House’s lawn, that’s illegal. If you’re concerned that the public commercial cloud company (or your trash collection company) might violate the law then you probably shouldn’t do business with that company. If the company you hire violates the law then you should probably stop doing business with that company. Public commercial cloud companies exist, they offer lots of services, and many organizations buy their services. Just as they buy trash collection, telecommunications, office leasing, temporary staffing, payroll processing, talent recruiting, catering, and myriad other business services. Sometimes it makes sense for organizations to buy business services outside the organization, and sometimes it doesn’t. Either way (and both ways) the cloud object storage solutions for IBM Z and LinuxONE servers are available to help. ————— Timothy Sipples Senior Architect Digital Assets, Industry Solutions, and Cybersecurity IBM zSystems/LinuxONE, Asia-Pacific [email protected] ---------------------------------------------------------------------- For IBM-MAIN subscribe / signoff / archive access instructions, send email to [email protected] with the message: INFO IBM-MAIN
