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NSA snooping is hurting U.S. tech companies’ bottom line
- junto 13y agoThis doesn't surprise me. I'm hoping that a few non-US companies start to take advantage of this faux-pas and will look to provide innovative solutions like their US counterparts. I'm already actively looking for alternatives to AWS and Rackspace for clients. There is a lot of work to do. Companies like Google, Amazon, Microsoft and Rackspace have a pretty impressive hard start in cloud computing. It isn't just the technicalities of server provisioning and management to achieve, but trust, billing and customer switching that will be key challenges for European and Asian providers to achieve. They now need to capitalise on the NSA debarcle and isolate other areas where the US cloud provides are failing to deliver. I don't know what those failings are, but there have to be some!
- malandrew 13y agoIt's just a matter of time. One of the great thing is that tools like Docker and Vagrant give you options that allow you to keep your infrastructure provider agnostic. We mainly lack tools to automate billing issues among providers. I wouldn't be surprised if you can eventually migrate your online business from country to country on a regular basic eventually. e.g. Here's a list of countries I want to operate in, here's what I'm willing to spend, here's how long I want to operate continuously in one country for a set amount of time, and here's how much redundancy I need. From there, you just let the software perform regular migrations of your business.
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- diafygi 13y agoThis is probably the most effective way to turn politicians around on the issue. As sad as it may be, a "jobs vs. security" debate is much more competitive in politics than "4th amendment vs. security" debate. The more times you can fit "NSA" and "job-killing" into the same sentence, the more politicians will start to question it.