Beyond the daily benefits the US enjoys from its close ties with Israel, the US has three fundamental, permanent, vital national security interests in the Middle East.
Security and availability are well-well-founded concerns, but CIOs and other executives looking at cloud need to take a close, hard look at another risk, something far more fundamental to their businesses.
There are fundamental differences between the aviation industry and the practice of medicine that make it unsafe to draw too close an analogy between the two.