It seems that in order to address the data residency requirements, that public cloud providers are increasingly starting to offer their cloud services in local regions, even through local hosting providers instead of own data centers. There is an interesting blog post by Terry Wolozsyn about this trend at the Cloud Computing at Ulitzer site.
In response to these data residency requirements, Oracle made a very interesting announcement today - they will be offering their CRM on-demand in Australia through a local hosting provider in Sydney. What this means for Oracle customers is that they can adopt Oracle's CRM cloud solution, while addressing their data residency requirements - the data never leaves the shores of Australia.
This somehow appears to disconnect the claimed benefits of public cloud computing - and has in fact been termed as "quasi-private clouds" - as somewhere in between public and private clouds. It will be interesting to see if this will continue as a trend in the future.
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