An interesting example of data gravity and cloud computing and personal data being physically held somewhere with more lax laws in your editorial Steve.....

In Europe, at least, I think the law states something like personal data cannot be physically or electronically transferred to another non-EU country. So for the EU countries, at least, I don't think this will be a future driver for distributed data.

There will be other valid drivers of course in the future for distributed/clouds etc...

Rgds,

Dave