Cloud companies will grapple with increasing government privacy regulations, says Porticor: 2015 Tech Predictions
January 3, 2015
Grazed from SiliconAngle. Author: Suzzane Kattau.
In 2015, more companies will migrate their compliant data to the cloud, there will be more cloud-targeted attacks by hackers or countries, and more U.S. cloud computing companies will deal with increasing European privacy regulations. This is all according to Ariel Dan, Executive VP and co-founder of Porticor Ltd., a cloud encryption and cloud security solutions provider for enterprises and small to medium-sized businesses (SMBs).
Dan’s predictions about enterprise cloud are all part of our second annual Technology Predictions series in which industry experts share their predictions with us about the hot tech trends that they think will take center stage in 2015. We’ll be sharing all of their predictions with you over the next couple of days. Read on for more from Dan…
Prediction No. 1: Companies will migrate their compliant data to the cloud
In 2014, we saw a significant adoption of the cloud by health-technology companies that used the cloud to provide services to healthcare providers and consumers. While we estimate that the cloud healthcare and Health Insurance Portability and Accountability Act (HIPAA)-compliance space will continue to grow in 2015, we also forecast that additional companies will migrate their compliant data to the cloud. Financial institutions will continue to rapidly adopt more and more cloud technologies and, in 2015, we will see additional requirements for cloud PCI compliance as more and more services will be provided as Software-as-a-Service (SaaS) applications to consumers…
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