In this paper, we analyse the results of a detailed survey of the privacy policies, and data protection terms more broadly, of 40 major cloud computing services, including Amazon Web Services, Google Cloud, and Microsoft Azure. We review terms relating to controller and processor designations;...

Effective protection of individuals under the EU’s General Data Protection Regulation (‘GDPR’) depends mainly on the ‘accountability’ of one or more persons, usually organizations, for ensuring compliance with relevant obligations. As we will see, identifying the ‘controllers’,...

In this paper we explore the rights that individuals have under the EU’s General Data Protection Regulation (‘GDPR’) when their data are processed in clouds, and the remedies that might be available to them if those rights are breached. The complex nature of cloud ecosystems can make it...

In this paper, we report the results of a detailed survey of the standard contracts for 40 major cloud computing services, including Amazon Web Services, Google Cloud, and Microsoft Azure. We cover a broad range of contractual issues, including clauses dealing with choice of law, termination,...

Adoption of cloud-based systems has been relatively modest — regardless of significant marketing push by major public cloud providers. The cloud-based model utilizes distributed information technology services accessible over networks. The networks can be internal part of organizations'...

Cloud computing adoption by organizations has been minor despite the initial optimism. The primary concerns obstructing adoption of cloud-based services are security, loss of control, and inadequate legislative. In a cloud-based model, information technology services are distributed and accessed...

Research into computing resource markets has mainly considered the question of which market mechanism provides a fair resource allocation. It has not been discussed how a large variety of resource types influences the liquidity of resources in the market. Markets containing large numbers of...

Based on the promising developments in Cloud Computing technologies in recent years, commercial computing resource services (e.g. Amazon EC2) or software-as-a-service offerings (e.g. Salesforce.com) came into existence. However, the relatively weak business exploitation, participation, and...

This paper presents the design and implementation of the GridEcon Marketplace. In addition to supporting a market mechanism for trading computing resources on a pay-per-use basis, this marketplace also provides an environment for integrating value-added support services. These value-added...

Within this paper, we present the GridEcon Platform, a testbed for designing and evaluating economics-aware services in a commercial Cloud computing setting. The Platform is based on the idea that the exact working of such services is difficult to predict in the context of a market and,...