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  Migrating infrastructure to the cloud -- what the board needs to know

  Publié: juillet 18, 2019, 4:12pm CEST par Johnny Carpenter

  If you serve on the board of a UK organization, it’s likely that digital transformation is high on your agenda as you look strategically at futureproofing your business. A key part of that is ensuring that the IT infrastructure supporting your company is functioning robustly as a platform on which to build competitiveness, rather than a legacy anchor holding back innovation and growth. Moving to an Infrastructure-as-a-Service (IAAS) set-up is increasingly the way that companies aim to unlock potential and enable more dynamic, flexible business processes. The benefits of IAAS are clear: It’s flexible and can easily scale as your… [Continue Reading]
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  Choose a cloud vendor that meets your needs

  Publié: octobre 31, 2014, 12:27am CET par Johnny Carpenter

  

  There is little doubt that cloud will play an increasingly important role as more and more organizations adopt cloud based strategies to underpin their IT infrastructures. Indeed, cloud hosting offers a wide variety of advantages to companies with the expertise to take advantage of it. Applications can be rolled out faster, resources can be rented rather than purchased and infrastructure can be right-sized to support monthly and seasonal peaks.

  However, a global survey commissioned by iland in April 2014 and undertaken by analyst firm Enterprise Management Associates (EMA), highlighted that there are also plenty of challenges when moving to a new cloud based infrastructure. In fact, 91 percent of those surveyed experienced at least one unexpected challenge when moving to the cloud with pricing, performance, scalability and location all topping the list of issues.

  The EMA research revealed that most organizations won't adopt a single vendor for their cloud requirements but will work with multiple vendors to best meet their IT, security and compliance needs. One of the reasons behind this relates to data sovereignty, as most organizations consider the guaranteed location of their workloads of paramount importance, as this can impact the laws that govern the application, the data and ultimately the company. Most organizations going down the cloud route will therefore seek to control the movement of their IT footprint in accordance with conscious choices regarding data sovereignty.

  Organizations should choose a vendor that can guarantee the location of its IT workload, with proximity being a key factor in this decision. However, the flip side is that this leaves little protection against local natural disasters or territory-related data breaches. If you have your data safely located elsewhere, for example your fail over data center is located far from home, this does provide an additional layer of security. Many organizations, however, won't consider this as a viable option due to data sovereignty and compliance to local regulation and laws.

  This is particularly important for EMEA companies as the EU Data Protection Directive adopted in 1995 is set to be replaced with new legislation known as The EU General Data Protection Regulation. It is expected to be introduced some time in 2015. I question how much impact this new legislation will have and wonder how prepared many of the existing and up-and-coming cloud providers are for this new regulation.

  In particular data collection, retention and breaches are areas that the EU plans to tighten up on with the new regulations. Here are a few aspects that we've gleaned of particular importance:

  Data Collection

  Two significant new rulings around the collection of data are:

  • EU users must acknowledge that they are aware they are submitting personal data.
  • Data portability is still to be worked out, but when it is, there will be massive fines for leaking data across countries. Fines for non-compliance are already in place and can be up to 2 percent of the annual global sales of the company.

  Data Retention

  Data retention is currently under review in the EU. In April 2014, the Court of Justice of the European Union declared the Data Retention Directive invalid. The Directive had ordered European states to pass laws that obliged certain Internet organizations to log records of their user's activity, keeping them up to two years and providing police and security services access to them. The court decided that the Directive was not proportionate and did not go far enough in protecting the fundamental rights to privacy and the protection of personal data.

  However, the court did recognize that data protection under specific conditions does serve a legitimate interest to the general public, namely the fight against serious crime and the protection of public security. So although the Directive was declared invalid, rest assured companies will not have a free rein to do what they want.

  Data Breaches

  Data handling and protection is a major concern. Failure to meet regulations can mean expensive fines for cloud providers, wherever they are located. If a breach occurs the cloud provider is required to contact the EU regulatory body. Failure to do so means additional sanctions can be levied.

  If the breach occurred because adherence to proper data protection was not performed the cloud provider can expect to pay a sanction which, again, could be up to 2 percent of the annual global sales of the company.

  Johnny Carpenter is UK director of iland

  Published under license from ITProPortal.com, a Net Communities Ltd Publication. All rights reserved.