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EuroCloud Europe Awards Monday, December 12th, 2011 Paris, France

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SNW Europe, Datacenter Technologies & Virtualization World combined under the exciting new theme ‘Powering the Cloud’

‘Powering the Cloud‘ is the exciting new theme for the 2011 editions of SNW Europe, Datacenter Technologies and Virtualization World taking place on 2nd and 3rd November at Congress Frankfurt.
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This questionnaire is part of a study of current aspects in Cloud Computing. The study is conducted by Humboldt-University at Berlin and the SRH University in Berlin. We will provide every participant a summary of the study’s results and concrete recommendations for implementing Cloud Computing. Please leave us your contact details at the end of the survey in order for us to send your article.

Most of the questions in the survey are optional due to the different adoption grades of Cloud Computing in various industries. In order to facilitate a high quality  of the individualized recommendation, we recommend that you fill out all relevant questions.

Answering this survey will take approximately ten minutes.

You can access the survey at: research.asperado.com

Security and compliance are the two most important issues that stand out from the many that exist. With the initiative “SaaS Quality Seal” and by working out the fundamentals of the legal background, EuroCloud has started important projects to improve the general framework for a successful implementation of Cloud services in different areas (software, platform and infrastructure).
This guide is a basis for the correct classification of the legal requirements and focuses on the area of Software as a Service as a “public Cloud service”. This has resulted in the emergence of special requirements pertaining to data protection, which schould always apply to all SaaS applications. The overview of topics is derived from the test criteria used by the EuroCloud SaaS Quality Seal which is a thorough test of “Software as a Service” products, in terms of service, data security, data protection, contract terms, and interoperability.

Please request the guide as PDF by sending a mail to guide-law@eurocloud.de

From Server to Domain – Key risks by virtualization

• Generel Risk Assessment
• Recommendations to secure virtualized environment
• Security for cloud deployments

Presenter: Andreas Weiss, Director EuroCloud Germany

Key Risks by Virtualization

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The EuroCloud Deutschland Awards are aimed at providers of Cloud services that are active in the German market and will be awarded for the first time this year. The winners of the EuroCloud Deutschland Awards will also be given the opportunity to apply for the EuroCloud European Awards with alongside other European countries.

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In the last few years, cloud computing has become one of the fastest growing segments of the IT industry. However, as more and more information on individuals and companies is placed in the cloud, concerns are beginning to grow about just how safe the cloud environment is. The experts at this summit will look into the current state of cloud computing, provide an update on standards, as well as highlight best practices for overcoming security issues faced by cloud providers & customers today.

Andreas Weiss, Director EuroCloud Germany will present the EuroCloud activities around Data Security, Compliance and Data Privacy in respect to typical security risks.

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During the special event Cloud Live as part of the  DataCentre Expo in Düsseldorf the EuroCloud competence group Cloud Managed Services will hold a work shop with the key topic  “Management of Cloud Services for Supplier and Customer within a hybrid cloud eco system”.  A detailed agenda will be posted soon.

The event will take place on Sep, 16th form 1 pm to 5 pm.

As a special promo we can offer stands in the Cloud Expo area. EuroCloud members can get 20 % discount for all exhibitor packages.

You will find general information here:

Cloud Expo Live

The event takes place at

Düsseldorf Congress Centre
Stockumer Kirchstrasse 61
DE-40474

Visitor invitation : DataCentre Expo Invitation

For further general information about DataCentre Expo please visit http://www.datacentre-expo.com.

The combination of Software and Services requires a strong check of service levels, compliance rules and service management to satisfy the customer requirements. EuroCloud promotes an audit process with a clear statement of contractual service guarantees and reliable infrastructure to manage the SaaS offering as a trusted service.

Andrew Weiss has been in the IT sector for 25 years. In that time he has managed several medium-sized IT companies in various countries< and led IT projects for international corporations in the field of business process and workflow management.

Since 1999, Mr. Weiss worked actively in various competence groups with his expertise in SOA, B2B and e-commerce and currently directs the working Group E-Business at the German eco – Association of the German Internet Industry . Since 2010 he has been Director of the newly established EuroCloud Deutschland_eco eV and coordinates the substantive work for Germany within the pan european EuroCloud organisation.

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