November 2011 Archives

Data

Five Steps to a More Coherent Data Framework for Europe’s Single Market

For any data-driven enterprise hoping to grow its operations in Europe today, the vaunted Single Market is a chimera. Rather than a harmonized legal framework and clear rules for how companies must safeguard people’s personal information and preserve their privacy, one finds a confusing patchwork.

Take the example of a cloud computing service that offers software tools, data storage, and processing power for enterprise-level clients to use in running their operations. The technology architecture of such a service should easily allow the cloud provider’s physical headquarters to be located in one country, its servers to be located in another, and its customers to be spread all over Europe. (Such economies of scale are in fact the very point of cloud computing.) The cloud service provider’s client companies, in turn, could have their own customers in any number of different locations. (more…)

Compliance and Enforcement

SOPA Needs Work to Address Innovation Considerations

When House Judiciary Chairman Lamar Smith and his bipartisan cosponsors last month introduced the Stop Online Piracy Act (SOPA), I said in a press statement that the bill would have to balance key innovation, privacy and security considerations with the need to thwart the threat rogue websites pose before BSA can give its support to … Read More >>

Industry

India’s Opportunity to Accelerate IT Growth

After a week of meetings with policymakers and business leaders in New Delhi, I leave convinced India is on the right path to achieve its goal of becoming a power center in the global IT economy. As I noted a few days ago, the country is moving rapidly up the leader board in IT industry

Industry

At Last, Industry-Standard SAM for Organizations

In every sector of the global economy, organizations of all types rely on software tools to communicate, to make products, to offer services, and to manage their operations. But keeping track of all those software assets can be a challenge, especially for a large enterprise. More divisions, more teams, more projects mean more software — … Read More >>

Industry

Partnering to Strengthen India’s IT Ecosystem

“Technology has transformational power,” the Government of India declares in its 2011 National Policy on Information Technology. “It is a great leveler of opportunity within and across economies.” This observation is undeniably true, and India is well on its way to achieving its aspiration of harnessing technology innovation to become one of the world’s leading … Read More >>