Considerations about Cloud Services: Learning from Italian Scenario

• Author: Riccardo Cognini - Maria Concetta De Vivo - Damiano Falcioni - Pietro Tapanelli
• Position: PhD Student, University of Camerino, School of Science and Technology, Italy - Senior Lecturer, University of Camerino, School of Science and Technology, Italy - PhD Student, University of Camerino, School of Science and Technology, Italy - PhD Student, University of Camerino, School of Science and Technology, Italy
• Pages: 43-50

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Abstract

: Cloud services are ubiqu

nowadays a standard business practi

of a cloud s ystem, treating especiall

of issues ar ise form cloud computin

computing, specific contractual sche

body) and cloud provider. On one

elect

ronic communication and, furth

adaptable to new challenges of dece

well defined legal instruments. Obje

area, starting from the EU legislative

an operative solution. Indeed the Ita l

could use as better as possible to ad

work: after an introduction to the sta

be solved. Approach: observation of

for cloud computing contracts. Impli

Keywords:

privacy; Cloud Computi

1.

Introduction: Basic concepts

We start by providing a definitio

technologies that enable the deliver

storing and/or processing data th

virtualized on the Internet. In the

provided by the National Institute

Commerce, that defines cloud comp

network access to a shared pool of c

applic

ations and services) that can

effort or service provider interaction

three/four deployment and three serv

Essentially

the key characteristics ar

1

PhD Student, University of Camerino, Sc

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2

Senior Lecturer, University of

Camerino, S

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ax: +390737402561,

3

PhD Student, University of Camerino, Sc

Tel.: +390737402578, f

ax: +390737402561,

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PhD Student, University of Camerino, Sc

Tel.: +390737402578, f

ax: +390737402561

Legal Sciences in the New

iderations about Cloud Services:

earning

from Italian Scenario

o Cognini

1

, Maria Concetta De Vivo

2

,

miano Falcioni

3

, Pietro Tapanelli

4

quitous: for small to large companies the phenomenon of cloud

ctice. This

paper would compile an analysis over a possible imple

ally the legal a spect of this theme. In t he Italian market has a larg

ting. First of all, this paper investigates the l

egal issues associated

heme that is able to define rights a duties both of user (private and

ne side there is all the EU legislative production related to pri

urthermore, the Privacy Directive is under a revision process to

ecentralized data treatment, but concretely there are no any struc

bjectives: we pr

esent a possible solution to address the uncertain

tive production with the help of the specific Italian scenario that c

Italian legal system is particularly a daptable

to changing technolog

adapt the already existing legal tools to this new technological

state of the art, we show t he main issues and their critical points

of the state of the art to propose a new approach to find the suitab

plication:

main implications are about academics and researchers.

uting; Public

Administration; provider; contract

pts of Cloud Computing

ition of “cloud computing”: this term refers to a

very of a service, offered by a provider to a

user, wh

through the use of hardware/software systems d

he rest of the paper we adopt the definition of clo

te of Standa

rds and Technology (NIST), of U.S. D

puting as “a model for enabling ubiquitous, convenie

f configurable computing resources (e.g., networks, se

an be rapidly provisioned and released with minima

tion. This cloud model is composed of five essential c

ervice models.”

are the following:

School of Science and

Technology, Italy, Address: 62032, Came

61, e

-mail: riccardo.cognini@unicam.it.

o, School of Science and Technology, Italy, Address : 62032, Cam

61, e

-mail: concetta.devivio@unicam.it.

School of Science and Technology, Italy, Address: 62032, Came

61, e

-mail: damiano.falcioni@unicam.it.

School of Science and Technology, Italy, Address: 62032, Came

61

. Corresponding author: pietro.tapanelli@unicam.it.

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