CISPE (Cloud Infrastructure Services Providers in Europe) is a trade association gathering IAAS (Infrastructure as a Service) cloud providers to express their views at a European scale. CISPE is a non profit organisation registered in Belgium and declared to the European Union Transparency Register (# 041495920038-44). The association has been started since some IAAS players had some difficulties to make their business model understood by some policy makers.
The association aims to advocate for an EU wide Cloud First public procurement policy, and engage for a European Digital Single Market including the promotion of high level security and data protection rules/standards as well as avoiding vendor lock-in.
Although the association was formally registered in early 2017, it has been operating since 2015.
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The CISPE Data Protection Code of Conduct
In order to help IAAS providers and their customers to reach compliance with the coming EU General Data Protection Regulation (GDPR), who will enter into force 25 May 2018, CISPE has released the CISPE Data Protection Code of Conduct. On the top of the required compliance to meet with the GDPR, the Code also ensures that IAAS Customers may choose to have their data located and processed exclusively in Europe, and that the supplier will not re-use customer's data.
The compliance has to be declared by CISPs/IAAS providers service by service.
The CISPE Code of Conduct has been launched 27 September 2016 at the European Parliament, and the first 30 services has been declared by first CISPs/IAAS providers 14 February 2017
Announcements received a very large press coverage across Europe, including: Le Monde, InfoDSI, El Pais, La Repubblica, Silicon, Cloud Magazine, Computer Sweden, Tom's Hardware, L'informaticien, Global Security Mag, EU Observer, Politico, Computer Weekly, IAPP, Il corriere della Sicurezza, LeMagIT, Bloomberg TV, ITR Manager, Heise.de, COR.COM, ZDNet, ElEconomista.es, IT Channel, EuropaPress, 01net, The Register, CIO Dive and many others.
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Members and supporting organizations
Members and supportive organizations manage operations in more than 15 European countries including France, Germany, Italy, Ireland, UK, Finland, Sweden, The Netherlands, Spain, Bulgaria, Poland, Switzerland.
Companies Members of CISPE and/or supporting the Code of Conduct, includes: Arsys, Art of Automation, Aruba, AWS, BIT, Dada, Daticum, Dominion, Enter, Fasthosts, FjordIT, Gigas, Hetzner Online, Home, Host Europe Group, IDS, Ikoula, LeaseWeb, Lomaco, Netalia, Netcetera, Outscale, OVH, Seeweb, Serverplan, SolidHost, UpCloud, VTX, XXL Webhosting, 1&1 Internet
Organization
CISPE is a non profit association under the Belgian law. The General Assembly elects within its members a Board of less than 10 members.
The composition of the Board of Directors should at any time take into account composition rules: a majority of the board should be composed with European Headquartered companies; a majority of the Board should be composed by small and mid caps (< EUR 1B turnover) and represent at least 3 different EU countries (considering worldwide HQ location). The first Chairman of the Board is Alban Schmutz.
The General Secretary is named by the Board. The first General Secretary is Francisco Mingorance
The Board also names Code of Conduct Task Force (CISPE CCTF) who is in charge to working out the evolution and improvements of the CISPE Data Protection Code of Conduct.
The organization is open to any member operating at least one IAAS service in one European country, and engaging to declare at least one service under the CISPE Code of Conduct within 6 months.
References
External links
- CISPE website
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