How Sears Could Have Used the Cloud to Stay Available Black Friday
Published Dec 03, 2008
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That's an excellent point. You can't keep your servers separated from other cloud client servers, because all the physical hardware is a shared resource, necessarily. The separation occurs at the virtual machine layer, if virtualization is the core technology on which the cloud is built.
The jury is still out regarding applications and PCI/SOX compliance in the cloud. While some PCI requirements, such as application firewall/code scanning could certainly be addressed in the cloud, still there are other points in the requirements that may not be adequately addressed in the cloud.
Lori