With expanding world economies and soaring demographics, the need for sustainable infrastructure is one of the great global challenges of our time. The subject was addressed head on during two ISO conferences on infrastructure, held recently in London and Singapore.

Outsourcing is a good business strategy. It improves efficiency, cuts costs, speeds up product development, and allows companies to focus on their “ core competencies”. And with help from a new ISO standard, the future is looking bright.

The use of cloud computing is soaring, and by 2016 this growth will increase to become the bulk of new IT spend, according to Gartner, Inc. But as more and more information on individuals and companies is placed on the cloud, concerns are being raised about just how safe an environment it is.

Cloud computing is a new way of delivering, consuming and producing IT resources via the Internet. Forging new standards work will only boost the potential and make the technology even more promising.