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Who Owns Application Delivery Meta-Data In the Cloud?
Random Feature writes "The Cloud Computing Interoperability Forum (CCIF) is currently discussing cloud portability specifications. It seems crazy to define a standard before we even know who owns what in the cloud because you can only port what you own. For example, if you created a security or acceleration policy for your cloud computing-based app, is the policy yours or the provider's? Who owns meta-data in the cloud?" True portability between clouds seems to hang on the answer.
The article was not very clear, plus Joyent was a lousy example to use. Joyent has big names associated with it, because it was started by many well-known independent developers, but it's actually pretty unreliable as far as most hosts are concerned.
The ownership of medical data is a huge problem with providers (even though HIPPA is out there). If you really press techs with start medical record providers, the attitude is simply that the data is theirs
I have worked in the medical computing industry, and I agree that you are right. On the other hand, "we" (being my ex-employer) wouldn't say that we "own" the data, but we are "caretakers" for it. In some sense, that makes it "our" data. We will not share it with others, unless they are HIPAA compliant (and we have a HIPAA compliant reason to give it). And we will secure it as if it was our own private, important, secret data.
Personally, as an ex-employee of a HIPAA compliant company, I don't see much of a problem in this regard.