Hi

My gravest concern with the cloud is the 'sovereignty' of the data.

I work for central government in New Zealand. On paper NZ`s small scale is a good candidate for the cloud. But, who controls the data? What if the Singapore (say) datacentre is closed down by the authorities local to the datacentre and access to my data is denied? At the moment, to me, that is an unacceptable risk.

Between ORM and the cloud the DBA`s job is changing..

Cheers

James