Windows Server 2012 Hyper-V Installation and Configuration Guide

Clouds, Tenants, and Segregation

The collapse of Enron in 2001 (which provided the basis for the creation of the Sarbanes-Oxley Act of 2002), organizations such as the Coca-Cola Company and PepsiCo, and cloud providers such as Amazon EC2 and Windows Azure—what do all these have in common? Considering each of these independently or as a group, it is not difficult to see that each has a strong requirement for segregation: the need to ensure that departments within Enron were independently isolated to prevent accounting anomalies; the need to ensure intellectual property such as recipes of two soft drink giants remain confidential; the need to ensure that confidential data hosted on a cloud remains secure, protected, and for appropriate consumption ...