Cloud Standards: Portability, Privacy, Security, …

What standards efforts are underway related to the Cloud? How are these standards trying to address Cloud Portability, Privacy and Security among other aspects of the Cloud? What is the future for Cloud standards? How are national regulations affecting Cloud adoption and Cloud standards?

- by multiple speakers

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Jamie Clark, General Counsel for OASIS (Organization for the Advancement of Structured Information Standards), advises on legal and policy matters as well as the consortium's extensive liaison efforts. He represented high technology companies in their banking, trade finance, acquisitions and securities transactions throughout the 1990's, and served two terms as chairman of the American Bar Association's business law subcommittee on electronic commerce. While a practicing attorney, he was a contributor to the original ebXML project (now ISO 15000), co-editor of its business process standards in 2001, and chairman of the ebXML Joint Coordinating Committee. Prior to joining OASIS's staff in 2003, he was vice president and general counsel of a healthcare e-commerce company, and corporate partner in a Los Angeles law firm. He is a U.S. delegate to the e-commerce working group of the United Nations Commission on International Trade Law (UNCITRAL), and an expert adviser on automated contracting and Internet law for the U.S. State Department. He is a frequent speaker and author in e-commerce and information security law as well as complex finance transactions. Jamie holds JD and BSc degrees from the University of Minnesota, and is based in Los Angeles.

Arijit Sengupta, CEO of BeyondCore, the Chair of the Cloud Computing Chapter of the International Association of Outsourcing Professionals (IAOP), the IAOP Ambassador for India, member of the Indian Cyber Security Advisory Group, and IAOP representative to the Advisory Board of the Cloud Services Measurement Initiative Consortium (CSMIC). BeyondCore won the Overall Most Innovative Cloud Provider award at the Up 2010 Cloud conference ahead of more than 150 firms. BeyondCore's SplitSecure Cloud Privacy solution was among the top three Cloud Infrastructure solutions at the GigaOm Structure 2011 conference. Arijit has guest lectured at Stanford and other universities on globalization and outsourcing; spoken at conferences in a dozen countries; and has been written about in The World Is Flat release 3.0, the New York Times, San Jose Mercury News, and other leading publications. Arijit held leadership positions at several eBusiness initiatives and previously worked at Oracle, Microsoft, and Yankee Group. He has received eight patents in the domains of Business Process as a Service, business process improvement, privacy and information security. Arijit holds an MBA with Distinction from the Harvard Business School and Bachelor degrees with Distinction in Computer Science and Economics from Stanford University.

Christine Sublett, Chief Information Security Officer, BeyondCore. Christine is an IT governance, security and privacy executive with extensive experience in healthcare regulatory compliance and health information technology. Most recently, Christine was the VP Security and Information Technology of StayWell Health Management. Prior to that, Christine was the Chief Information Security Officer at Lucile Packard Children’s Hospital at Stanford. Christine is active in a variety of IT governance and security organizations including InfraGard, ISSA, and ISACA. She holds Bachelor and Master degrees from the University of California, Davis and San Francisco State University.