European companies would American cloud providers, because they are worried about how their data is done as a result of the Patriot Act. Various Pro-panelexperts of Tweakers.net confirm this image.
From decided to submit, at the request of the Financial Times have taken place between some European it directors, it can be concluded that the cloud today, with a lot of interest is being viewed. Reason for this is, inter alia, the confirmation by Microsoft last month that the company as a result of the Us legislation in some cases also in Europe saved data to the US must submit.
This is the result of the Patriot Act, which requires that a company in the USA is located or in the hands of an American company, could be forced to data provided by the company is stored or processed, regardless of whether this is confidential or not. It also shows that American companies, in some cases, not to customers having to report if they be forced to disclose information, even though this is obligatory according to the European Data Protection directive.
“We are now not able to find a Us provider of cloud services to use, even if the dates are in a European datacenter is saved,” said one of existing it managers. According to the FT emerged from the session that many of the attendees were like that.
Also in the Netherlands, there appear to be companies to be internally struggling with any privacy questions around cloudhosting. So has the bank, where Pro-panelexpert Plofkotje works, decided to put everything under its own management. “Although the government had the idea to put things in the cloud to host, could not have a single cloud provider hard guarantee that our data is safe and who might have access to it.”
When the employer Pro-panelexpert ndeleeuw seems to be almost an aversion to arise against cloud computing, because the company does not want that data outside of the Netherlands is stored. “As far as we know, there is no cloudhoster that can guarantee that data in one location. That can for some companies be the reason for not using cloud computing to do. I can understand that many companies do not like to see that their intellectual property is issued to the U.s. government.”
Tweaker LeLo is currently working at a large German company in a consolidation and migration path, and even there, privacy is a hot issue. “However, this is not specific to cloud services, but for all services that are not in management to be carried out. This specific customer has therefore strict rules have been established, which allows all services and data will be categorized, and if it turns out that the access to sensitive data, this data Germany will not leave and also not be managed by external parties that also have offices outside Germany.”