Sunday 8 May 2011

Sony woes may cause some to rethink cloud computing

Sony data breach that compromised the personal data of more than 100 million customers of the Japanese electronics conglomerate may claim yet another victim -- the cloud computing industry.

Some businesses are rethinking plans to move to cloud-based computer systems located at remote data centers that can be accessed over the web.

Shares of companies that specialize in cloud computing have been some of top-performing stocks over the past year. But the attack on Sony, as well as a massive outage at Amazon.com Inc's cloud computing center, have caused some businesses to put the brakes on plans to move their operations into the cloud.

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Sony woes may cause some to rethink cloud computing