Canada Cloud blog asks Would you trust a Canadian, with your Cloud Data?

Aside an image of the Mounted Police and a sled dog they speak of “global expansion”

..it is a very, very fertile area for new business start-up development, and is a key focus area for us as part of this Canadian Cloud initiative.

Canada also actually does have significant assets in the Cloud computing field, especially within this critical area of Cloud Data Privacy, and these provide a foundation for global expansion. Our primary activity to launch the network is to begin building an innovation portfolio around this cluster, aligning it to key markets like the USA and Europe.

For example on 19-Aug 2010, the Web 2.0/Cloud Computing Subcommittee of the American CIO.gov team published ‘USA’s Government Cloud Outsourcing Guide (11-page PDF), explaining how agencies can safely outsource to Cloud providers, focusing particularly on the aspect of privacy and how it can be protected through implementation of various best practices, like the NIST series, and it concludes with the recommendation:

“Private cloud vendors should be aware of these publicly published controls and should offer them as enhancements.”