Hungary must think ahead!

When a young boy discovers his surroundings all you can do as a parent, is think ahead and look out for his safety. I find that I’m already one step ahead before he takes his next step... no question that my job is to teach him what to do next. 

Based on my experience cloud computing issues are still quite immature in Hungary. And I’ve also noticed that there is very little content or information about cloud computing written for the Hungarian market. I’d expect that Big companies like Microsoft, and Google would pay attention a small markets like Hungary. So they can help us grow, and mature with them in mind. Most of the time they do not…. But sometimes there are surprises.

I was looking for information about secure cloud computing and I found that last Monday Microsoft published a cloud paper on ’trusting’ the cloud in Hungarian. So it’s really interesting to finally see how a big company like Microsoft is thinking ahead and trying to take advantage by working to provide more intelligent and comprehensive information to help educate the Hungarian market about cloud computing issues.

And what is this report? This information is extremely technical, so be ready for a hard read!.....But I tell you I think this is a big deal! To have a big company commit and to try and get companies around Hungary thinking about the Cloud in a more logical way, is about time..

The paper is called ‘The Microsoft Approach to Cloud Trasparancy’  and provides Microsoft’s perspective on using an open standard called the Cloud Security Alliance (CSA) in framing what companies need to consider when adopting cloud services. The paper references a repository of papers that includes information from most major cloud providers, such as Amazon, Box, and yes Microsoft to help pick a good cloud provider!. The repository is called the known as the Security, Trust and Assurance Registry (STAR) for its cloud solutions. So this is how the cloud providers are working to try and help us grow up, and become a real player in the cloud market.