[Year 12 IT Apps] Cloud redundancy

[Donna Benjamin]

We run server nodes in Tokyo, California and London.
We also have a virtual server in Brisbane.

And we're a tiny 2 person web dev & hosting company.

What's of increasing interest are issues around legal jurisdiction when
it comes to data. Ever thought about who your "virtual" neighbours are
on the box your virtual server, or shared hosting arrangement sits on?

If you host data for people in other jurisdictions are you subject to
their laws? Or are they subject to yours? Or both? If you host your data
with a US company is your data subject to the Patriot Act? If the FBI
seize your server because someone is running a mega upload file sharing
service... do you have any recourse?

"May you live in interesting times... " ;)

- D.


On Tue, 2012-05-08 at 13:30 +1000, Roland Gesthuizen wrote:
> Sorry to reflect back on this old thread.
> 
> I heard from a senior IT engineer in NSW that many of the big cloud
> providers, now backup the data across continents. I has been said that
> 'it isn't a backup until the backup has left the building'. I guess we
> can now say that you don't really have a backup until you have stored
> it on multiple continental plates. If you could connect these volumes
> and sync with an atomic clock, it conjures an image of an
> intercontinental raid device or a super cloud drive that spans the
> globe with transnational redundancy. :-)
> 
> Regards Roland
> 
> On 20 April 2012 08:21, Mark KELLY <kel at mckinnonsc.vic.edu.au> wrote:
> > "Given some of the recent (and high profile) cloud storage outages with both
> > Amazon S3 and Microsoft Azure, there is a growing interest in providing
> > fault tolerance across storage providers. In the same way local storage
> > solutions provide RAID, cloud storage could benefit from a redundant array
> > of cloud storage solutions (RACS). "
> >
> > http://www.wired.com/cloudline/2012/04/duracloud/
> >
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