Patent ID: 8528101

Claim:
A computing data center configured to provide computing resources, the computing data center comprising: one or more physically isolatable units comprising discrete physical computing assets; a computing device comprising at least one processor and a memory communicatively coupled to said processor when said computing device is operational, said memory having stored therein computer readable instructions that, upon execution by the computing device, cause the computing device to at least: provide, in the computing data center, one or more computing resources on behalf of a user within the one or more physically isolatable units; based at least in part on physical data security preferences received from the user, identify a set of the computing resources for which a physical security exception action plan is to be applied and identify physical computing assets that are providing the identified set of computing resources for which the physical security exception plan is to be applied; determine that a security exception at the one or more physically isolated units associated with the identified physical computer assets has occurred; and in response to the determination, and according to the physical security exception action plan, remove the identified set of computing resources from within the one or more physically isolatable units.