Michaël Van de Borne, Ingénieur de Recherche au CETIC, a présenté l’expertise du CETIC en matière de Cloud Computing à la conférence "Cloud Law or Legal Cloud?" qui s’est déroulée à Bruxelles, le 30 septembre 2011.
Date: 30 September 2011
Event: CETIC talks ⊕
Expertises:
Engineering of complex IT systems ⊕
Nowadays, an isolated machine is generally pointless. With the development of bandwidth, storage and data transfer capacities, computing is now based upon communication and mutualisation of
resources. In a "cloud computing" scheme, computing becomes a mere commodity, which is delivered on demand and from a remote, sometimes unknown or variable location.
The commercial representative of your IT provider has probably already informed you about the advantages of such services, but one question remains: ...are we "legally ready" for cloud computing?
Data protection and transfers, new contractual practices and painful international private law issues are the common issues to be addressed when analysing the phenomenon from a legal point of view.
Furthermore, each entity bound by regulatory compliance constraints has to assess whether "going into the cloud" is wise, or even allowed, taking into account its activities and the data or processes that it would like to outsource this way. The aim of the conference is to explore the legal contexts of cloud computing globally, but also from a sector-oriented perspective.
Detailed programme: see leaflet
Additional information and registration: www.juritic.be
