One of the big revelations within the evolving PRISM scandal is how important a role big data and cloud computing have played in enabling the NSA to facilitate the scale of monitoring they achieved.
While there are many things to be said on both sides of the discussion around the PRISM program, its diminished presence within the 24 hour news cycle has given many within the cloud computing and big data industries pause enough to provide some analysis of the programs impact on the technology space.
Mark Milian of Bloomberg recently published a post articulating the perceived problems the PRISM fallout proposes for U.S. based cloud providers.
Citing a global survey detailing respondents’ reticence to continue with cloud providers, market projections for the cloud industry have been reduced on expectations that more businesses will jump ship.