{"id":8361,"date":"2013-07-23T23:23:19","date_gmt":"2013-07-23T23:23:19","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/www.cloudcomputing-news.net\/news\/2013\/jul\/24\/new-zealand-updates-cloud-policy-follows-australias-footsteps\/"},"modified":"2013-07-23T23:23:19","modified_gmt":"2013-07-23T23:23:19","slug":"new-zealand-updates-cloud-policy-follows-in-australias-footsteps","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/icloud.pe\/blog\/new-zealand-updates-cloud-policy-follows-in-australias-footsteps\/","title":{"rendered":"New Zealand updates cloud policy, follows in Australia\u2019s footsteps"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>As all eyes were on Australia in the Asia Pacific cloud computing space, New Zealand has taken a similar leap through the Institute of IT Professionals NZ (IITP) and published an updated cloud policy, called the Cloud Code.<\/p>\n<p>The v2.0, released today, has two key agreements for all potential signatories: no cloud washing, and upfront disclosure of cloud products and services.<\/p>\n<p>New Zealand&rsquo;s cloudy code of practice was first developed in 2011, in partnership with the major CSPs, so it could be argued that this release is a long time coming. Yet it certainly appears timely, with Australia pushing forward its National Cloud Computing Strategy back in May.<\/p>\n<p>And with 86% of Australian enterprises currently in the cloud, according to figures recently published by IDC, the growth potential is clear &ndash; as CloudTech examined in its editorial earlier this month.<\/p>\n<p>But what will this latest development mean for New &#8230;<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>As all eyes were on Australia in the Asia Pacific cloud computing space, New Zealand has taken a similar leap through the Institute of IT Professionals NZ (IITP) and published an updated cloud policy, called the Cloud Code.<br \/>\nThe v2.0, released today, ha&#8230;<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":9,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"closed","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-8361","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/icloud.pe\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/8361","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/icloud.pe\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/icloud.pe\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/icloud.pe\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/9"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/icloud.pe\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=8361"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/icloud.pe\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/8361\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/icloud.pe\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=8361"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/icloud.pe\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=8361"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/icloud.pe\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=8361"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}