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To critics, cloud computing can't be trusted because you aren't in control of the data outside your network.But if that's the case, then how secure are the data and collocation centers that corporations contract with to host their data?
"It does come down to vetting the practices of the provider and making sure they meet the standards you want for your business," Phil Hochmuth, a senior analyst at Yankee Group, said Monday, the eve of Cloud Computing Innovation Day in Santa Clara, Calif.
For sure, this has to be one of the big questions we should all ask about any form of data hosting (live data and backups), including our own desktop, our web sites online, including documents in Cloud Computing.
