In just a few days, Lorenz Meis, from Telindus, will participate to IT Days where he will conduct a workshop on the following topic of data privacy and hybrid clouds. A seasoned professional with more than 15 years of experience in the ICT sector, Lorenz shared his expertise with IT One but also the new approach aiming at responding to the current challenges of the cloud service market.

"By definition, hybrid means that you are using two different environments"starts Lorenz. He continues: "You are therefore mixing private cloud services with public cloud services". Public implies that customers are sharing resources and also control. And even if it does not sound as being the safest solution – as security depends on how many pieces you control – hybrid cloud offers a lot of benefits and advantages for companies. "Yet, they will need a strategy to stay secure" adds Lorenz, who will give some guidance on how to make use of the advantages of hybrid clouds and, at the same, ensure the safety and data privacy during the Telindus workshop next September 29th.

 

The ability to leverage between private and public clouds

"Finding one-size-fits-all solutions or one-cloud-fits-all solutions for every use case is nearly impossible because businesses have different requirements for different types of application. Hybrid cloud offers the possibility to meet these needs" states Lorenz Meis. Hybrid cloud enhances the company's agility which can now move seamlessly between the two approaches: it is a new and more disruptive economic way of delivering IT service compared to the traditional hardware-bound, on premises, or private cloud only-bound service model. According to Lorenz, "hybrid cloud also allows companies to leverage the best of both worlds: they can use the cost-effective public cloud for non-sensitive operations on the one hand, and the private cloud for more critical operations on the other". Last but not least, companies can now easily allocate the resources for immediate and new projects at a much lower cost than using a local infrastructure, when needed.

 

Data privacy in Luxembourg

"Luxembourg has data protection laws which were originally defined for the financial sector" states Lorenz, and today, the same data protection regulation is also applicable to all other businesses. Companies active in the financial sector, PSFs – or professionals of the financial sector – need to comply with this specific framework. For example, data cannot cross the borders of Luxembourg, and according to the CSSF, the authority responsible for the financial regulation in Luxembourg, "data control and traceability within cloud services need to be guaranteed". Moreover, the country has developed a strong expertise and knowledge when it comes to datacenters, and the management of sensitive and critical data for the entire economy. "There are also the new regulations for e-archiving and e-signature"adds the cloud specialist, "all of this makes Luxembourg the perfect place when it comes to public or hybrid cloud solutions".

 

In this context, Telindus was able to develop a complete hybrid cloud solution based on CISCO and the Microsoft Azure technology, operated, controlled and managed in Luxembourg. "At the end of the day, it's all about matching the right solution to the right job" concludes Lorenz Meis.

 

Interview by Alexandre Keilmann