Comments on: Europe cloud plan addresses data protection problem. Sort of.

By: Pim Bilderbeek

Pim Bilderbeek — Tue, 02 Oct 2012 07:29:16 +0000

Just like in food safety where the EU is regulating food traceability (from the farm to the fork), enterprises should track deployment options from the data center to the device to make sure the value chain is uncompromised:

http://ec.europa.eu/food/food/foodlaw/traceability/index_en.htm

What about your deployment models? How elastic is your IT? Have you got cloud traceability? Can you show cloud traceability in your cloud offerings?

http://www.themetisfiles.com/2011/08/computing-deployment-models-and-cloud-traceability/

Join the discussion, I am hosting a roundtable at Structure Europe in Amsterdam Oct 16/17 on the public cloud revolution. Q: Is Europe ready?

By: jvanacek

jvanacek — Sat, 29 Sep 2012 02:18:28 +0000

SAP has been working closely with EU Cloud Commission on a “gold standard” for certification, to streamline complexity of cloud service provider operations and ensure trust and transparency in vendor decisions by member states.

By: David Mytton

David Mytton — Thu, 27 Sep 2012 21:01:10 +0000

It’ll be interesting to see what impact this initiative will have. The EU has brought some excellent benefits for consumers (like reduced mobile roaming, which I wish would also apply when I roam in the US!) so hopefully they can do the same with B2B. There is precedent for consumer protection in contracts but doing the same for business will be tough. I expect they’ll just provide guidelines for this.

“EU-wide certification schemes for trustworthy cloud providers” will also be interesting. This is exactly the kind of thing that can get mixed up with EU bureaucracy so it’ll be important to have the certification mean something, which will be achieved by getting key industry players involved at a operational level, not just high level committees.

I would like to see involvement from companies of all sizes too – often larger corporates have the budget for what is essentially lobbying for these things. Startups (who are most likely to bring innovation) have less time and money to do this.

By: Barb Darrow

Barb Darrow — Thu, 27 Sep 2012 19:56:21 +0000

be blunt! i think many share your view!

By: ricdesan

ricdesan — Thu, 27 Sep 2012 17:20:34 +0000

I hate to be so blunt, but if you buy into the cloud ‘myth,’ thinking your data is going to be perfectly safe in an evolving totalitarian European world, I have a bridge you are just going to LOVE!