Microsoft proposes ‘Cloud Computing Advancement Act’
Posted by amcanty on January 22, 2010
“Microsoft has called on Congress to make a law for protecting consumers and businesses as cloud computing becomes a more popular IT option.
Brad Smith, senior vice president and general council, spoke at the Brookings Institute on Wednesday in Washington, D.C., and proposed that Congress create a “Cloud Computing Advancement Act.” Microsoft wants to start a national conversation on building confidence in cloud computing and protecting sensitive data hosted on the cloud, the company said.
“No technology is perfect. Nothing is perfect,” Smith told an audience of business leaders. “But unquestionably the PC revolution has empowered individuals and democratized technology in new and profoundly important ways. As we increasingly connect smarter client devices with the resources in the cloud, our challenge is to build on these successes and make them greater still. We should not and need not sacrifice the personalization of technology in order to benefit from computers in the cloud.”
With cloud computing, people and businesses can host data and applications in third-party data centers connected via the Internet. By reducing the need for on-premise computer servers and adding the ability for automatic application scaling and management, cloud computing has the potential to save businesses lots of money in IT spending.”
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