Public Policy and Regulatory Implications for the Implementation of Opportunistic Cloud Computing Services for Enterprises

Eric Kuada, Henning Olesen, Anders Henten

2012

Abstract

Opportunistic Cloud Computing Services (OCCS) is a social network approach to the provisioning and management of cloud computing services for enterprises. This paper discusses how public policy and regulations will impact on OCCS implementation. We rely on documented publicly available government and corporate policies on the adoption of cloud computing services and deduce the impact of these policies on their adoption of opportunistic cloud computing services. We conclude that there are regulatory challenges on data protection that raises issues for cloud computing adoption in general; and the lack of a single globally accepted data protection standard poses some challenges for very successful implementation of OCCS for companies. However, the direction of current public and corporate policies on cloud computing make a good case for them to try out opportunistic cloud computing services.

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Kuada E., Olesen H. and Henten A. (2012). Public Policy and Regulatory Implications for the Implementation of Opportunistic Cloud Computing Services for Enterprises . In Proceedings of the 9th International Workshop on Security in Information Systems - Volume 1: WOSIS, (ICEIS 2012) ISBN 978-989-8565-15-0, pages 3-13. DOI: 10.5220/0004086300030013


in Bibtex Style

@conference{wosis12,
author={Eric Kuada and Henning Olesen and Anders Henten},
title={Public Policy and Regulatory Implications for the Implementation of Opportunistic Cloud Computing Services for Enterprises},
booktitle={Proceedings of the 9th International Workshop on Security in Information Systems - Volume 1: WOSIS, (ICEIS 2012)},
year={2012},
pages={3-13},
publisher={SciTePress},
organization={INSTICC},
doi={10.5220/0004086300030013},
isbn={978-989-8565-15-0},
}


in EndNote Style

TY - CONF
JO - Proceedings of the 9th International Workshop on Security in Information Systems - Volume 1: WOSIS, (ICEIS 2012)
TI - Public Policy and Regulatory Implications for the Implementation of Opportunistic Cloud Computing Services for Enterprises
SN - 978-989-8565-15-0
AU - Kuada E.
AU - Olesen H.
AU - Henten A.
PY - 2012
SP - 3
EP - 13
DO - 10.5220/0004086300030013