Secure & Accountable, but Is It a Cloud?

[Greg Pfister]

Is this a security use case? Or is it not a cloud?

Taser (yes, that Taser) is getting into e-evidence: Head-mounted
camera feed stored directly, secure, chain of evidence maintained, few
hands touching it, sent to their... cloud?

(I found this through Gervas Douglas post here: http://bit.ly/2yNi9H,
original here: http://bit.ly/3GdVTj )

The words all say cloud, but I'm not convinced this isn't just a data
center that some day could be a SaaS cloud. Most relevant (for me)
part of the article:

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"At some point, five, 10 years down the road, [using public clouds]
may be an acceptable law enforcement practice," Stephens said. "Right
now, it's not."

Instead of developing their own cloud infrastructure out of open
source tools and commodity hardware, like Amazon or Rackspace, Taser
chose to build on Cisco's Unified Computing Solution (UCS) and
VMware's vSphere. Stephens wanted to buy ready-made products, since he
didn't have the IT expertise in-house to build a cloud from scratch.

Despite that, Taser could still buy cloud technologies "out of the
box" and become a Software as a Service (SaaS) cloud provider. Taser
was also Cisco's first UCS customer, according to Stephens, making it
an important test case for Cisco's private cloud sales efforts.

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Greg Pfister
http://perilsofparallel.blogspot.com/