US ambassador to the EU calls for solidarity. The EU and the US must work together to offer a credible response to the emergence of cloud computing, the US ambassador to the EU told a conference this week. William Kennard, a former head of the Federal Communications Commission, said that there was a “new sense of urgency” to debates about privacy, intellectual property rights (IPR) and data protection, because of the increasingly rapid move towards […]
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The migration of computing into a cloud of massive data centres spread all over the world is giving regulators a headache as they find themselves on the back foot of an industry-driven trend. Policy Summary The term ‘cloud computing’ describes a whole range of infrastructure, software, data or applications residing in the ‘cloud’ – that is to say, off your own premises and accessed via the Internet. A study carried out by the University of […]
With security concerns still trotted out as a major inhibitor to the adoption of Cloud Computing, the European Union’s cyber security Agency ENISA has weighed in with a new report on Governmental Cloud Computing that might upset the anti-federalists. Addressing security concerns, the Agency unsurprisingly concludes that private and community Clouds appear to be the solutions that best fit the needs of public administrations if they need to achieve the highest level of data governance. […]