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TechWeek Europe Alibaba Opens Data Centre In Silicon Valley. Chinese e-commerce giant Alibaba has opened its first ever cloud computing data centre in the US this year. Located in Silicon Valley, the data centre will be run by Aliyun, Alibaba’s cloud computing division. Back in China, Alibaba has more than 1.4 million customers for its cloud services over five data centres (four in mainland China and one in Hong Kong), and is the largest IaaS provider in China with a 22.8% market share in the first half of 2014, according to IDC.
Computing NHS Care.data 'can never be 100 per cent secure’. The Care.data programme will push the NHS towards a consent-based model of data sharing by 2020, but 100 per cent security of patient information can't be guaranteed, Tim Kelsey, NHS England's national director for patients and information, has admitted.
The Guardian From GCHQ to tech giants: why the fight for your personal data matters. Privacy International is battling to force GCHQ to delete information that has been collected illegally – but could we all be doing more in the battle for our data?
Cloud News
Computing Cloud computing security and privacy fears stopping EU from moving to 'government cloud'– report. The adoption of cloud computing in the public sector across the European Union is being held back by worries over how sensitive data can be secured, according to a report by the European Union Agency for Network and Information Security (ENISA).
Cloud Pro AWS's exclusive CIA cloud platform 'ready to go’. The CIA is about to start using Amazon Web Services' (AWS) cloud in a $600 million deal, after it achieved "final operational capability" 18 months after work started to beef up Amazon's platform. Doug Wolfe, the CIA’s chief information officer, said his organisation will use a classified version of AWS's cloud, an isolated region that only the CIA and other high-security organisations can use, making it more secure than Amazon’s standard public cloud service as reported by EnterpriseTech.
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