For many, “cloud” has become almost synonymous with offsite IT, with data processing and IT services taking place somewhere out in the ether rather than on-premises. From an ideology standpoint, however, “cloud” really means something else: simply put, a new way of provisioning services and storage. Nevertheless, cloud services all seem to have one thing in common. That’s the ability to share data in an easily accessible fashion that incorporates security and controls without compromising the fidelity of the data.
European-U.S. data protection agreement: Yet another attempt, yet another failure
The recent agreement between the US and the EU is the third attempt to secure the transfer of personal data from Europe to the US. Holger Dyroff, co-founder and COO of ownCloud, does not see the new regulatory attempt as a satisfactory solution.
