INTUG Responds to EC Consultation on Cloud Computing
1 September 2011Yesterday INTUG responded to the European Commission’s Consultation on Cloud Computing, focusing on cross border issues.
Yesterday INTUG responded to the European Commission’s Consultation on Cloud Computing, focusing on cross border issues.
It is often said that Skype isn’t of much use in enterprise communications, because connections routed over the Internet are not as stable as those over the PSTN or the ISDN. It is also claimed that Skype would have to be more secure before we can send sensitive traffic from business networks to the outside world. But this is at odds with reality, since many international enterprises have been using Skype for some time.
Today, INTUG released a paper on cloud computing, which talks about IT companies embracing the cloud computing opportunity as a way of providing additional services to their existing and potential customers.
How to benefit from cloud computing without putting sensitive data at risk? The European Network and Information Security Agency (ENISA) published a 123 page report on the subject and found that Cloud Computing actually can enhance data security.