Your confidential enterprise data in the cloud?

Another proof point for why the industry is converging to a world of both software and services: the BBC reports that the French security services have realized that if their high-level government officials use Blackberries, their email ends up in someone else's datacenter and that may constitute a security risk. 

Customers will make decisions about where they want to store their data based on security, privacy, data retention, compliance and other issues.  Some will opt to run the risk of someone else having the data, some will insist on control.