Data protection, contracts, and the cloud meet in ISO 27018
May 22, 2015
Grazed from CloudComputingIntelligence. Author: Richard Kemp.
As it approaches its first birthday, ISO 27018 – the first international standard focusing on the protection of personal data in the public cloud – continues to move centre stage as the battle for the Cloud moves up a gear.
At the highest level, this is a competitive field for the biggest companies – think billion dollar investments and million square foot data centres with a hundred thousand servers using enough energy to power a city. According to research firm Synergy, the Cloud infrastructure services market – Infrastructure as a Service (Iaas), Platform as a Services (PaaS) and Private and Hybrid Cloud – was worth $16bn in 2014, up 50% on 2013, and is predicted to grow 30% to over $21bn in 2015…
Synergy estimated that the four largest players accounted for 50% of this market, with Amazon at 28%, Microsoft at 11%, IBM at 7% and Google at 5%. Of these, Microsoft’s 2014 revenues almost doubled over 2013 and Amazon recently reported its AWS (Amazon Web Services) revenues at $1.6bn in the first quarter of 2015, up 50% on 2014…
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