Google Cloud Deals: Are Some More Equal than Others?
April 12, 2010
“Frustrations with Cloud Computing Mount” runs down a number of issues with cloud computing. The hassles wander all over the map. But the article contains a quite interesting point about Google’s cloud computing agreements. Here is the passage I found fascinating:
The big cloud customers, such as the City of Los Angeles, which reached an agreement for unlimited damages with Google when it contracted to use its Google Apps services , should it ever violate its nondisclosure agreements, can negotiate terms that may give them a transparency and enforcement leverage. But many other users don’t have that clout and, and in a lot of cases cloud providers may not even provide the logging information needed to prove a breach, said Jim Reavis, the founder of the Cloud Security Alliance.
I think this means that some are more equal than others.
Stephen E Arnold, April 12, 2010
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