What to make of clouds and your data warehouse

Cloud computing has been a buzz word for long enough that we're getting lots of differentiation and jargon: Hybrid clouds, internal clouds and private clouds. One issue that you ought to keep in mind as you evaluate the many cloud permutations is data security, as required by PCI, HIPAA, Sarbanes-Oxley and the like. Stephen Brobst, CTO of data warehouse provider Teradata, tells Information Week that while it's technically feasible to run data warehouses in public clouds--the kind run by Amazon and others--there are privacy and governance concerns that make it almost inconceivable to do so with personal data. So some sort of proprietary environment may be best in this area. Article