jeff.mason (6/22/2012)
I still have seen nothing to convince me that regulatory requirements like HIPAA, SOX, FDA validation, et al can be safely supported in an external cloud. Internal, maybe, but how can a DBA guarantee data protection at that level when someone else owns and maintains the servers?
The third party vendor has to support those same regulatory requirements. If they aren't cretified under the necessary authorities, you don't use them.