Week 3 Discussion 2 - Data Storage in the Cloud

 Week 3 Discussion 2

"Data Storage in the Cloud" Please respond to the following:

• Imagine that you are the CIO of a multinational consumer-based organization that has redundant servers across the globe. Examine three regulatory challenges you may face. Propose the technical or operational approaches that you would use to mitigate these factors.
• From the third e-Activity, examine the possible innovations that cloud computing has yet to realize in organizations. Provide at least three recommendations that you could suggest to a CEO that would invoke disruptive change to an organization.

Week 3 eActivities

· Go to the Security Assertion Markup Language’s (SAML) Website located at http://saml.xml.org/. Take note of the security risks or benefits of using SAML in the cloud. Be prepared to discuss.

· Go to the Open Cloud Manifesto’s Website and read their manifesto located at www.opencloudmanifesto.org. Be prepared to discuss.

· Go to the ACM Digital Library’s Website and read “Cloud Computing and Electricity: Beyond the Utility Model”, located at http://delivery.acm.org/10.1145/1740000/1735234/p32-brynjolfsson.pdf?ip=199.107.67.96&acc=OPEN&CFID=113722695&CFTOKEN=64753600&__acm__=1347301298_45e37156eadc700b78609324912a8046. Be prepared to discuss.