Sponsored Feature The steady migration of applications and infrastructure out of in-house data centres and server farms and into the cloud looks unstoppable at this moment in time. Research firm Gartner has estimated that by 2025, 51 percent of IT spending on application and infrastructure software, business process services and system infrastructure will have shifted to the public cloud, up from 41 percent in 2022. And you can bet that large volumes of the data that those applications and systems host and process will go with them.
The cloud offers all sorts of potential advantages around flexible procurement, resource utilisation, cost and scalability, but it still has work to do on data security. While cloud service providers do offer rudimentary cyber defences, there can be no guarantee that their customer's sensitive data won't be impacted if their multi-tenanted systems are compromised due to internal disruption or external infiltration.
That can be a difficult leap of faith for some. Pretty much every industry we can think of - both public and private sector – is subject to stringent data privacy regulations which vary from one country or region to the next. The European Union General Data Protection Regulation (GDPR) applies to all EU countries and organisations based outside the bloc that deal with the data or citizens residing in those countries, for example. On top of that are country specific European laws like the German Bundesdatenschutzgesetz (BDSG) which governs the exposure of personal data, which are manually processed or stored in IT systems.
At the same time three US providers – AWS, Microsoft and Google – are estimated to have accounted for 72 percent of Europe's entire cloud spend during the second quarter of 2022. But what happens if tho ..
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