Building up cloud in Europe
The strategic importance of cloud computing and the wider picture of the Internet as a platform for business
enablement has not escaped the notice of politicians.
After a vow at this year’s World Economic Forum in Davos by...
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Building up cloud in Europe
The strategic importance of cloud computing and the wider picture of the Internet as a platform for business
enablement has not escaped the notice of politicians.
After a vow at this year’s World Economic Forum in Davos by
Neelie Kroes, vice president of the European Commission, to make Europe not merely ‘cloud friendly’ but ‘cloud
active’, a public consultation has just been launched as part of an initiative to formulate a European strategy for
cloud computing.
Speaking at last week’s EuroCloud Congress in Luxembourg, Rainer Zimmermann, a key advisor at the Commission
on technology policy, pointed out that cloud computing already accounts for around €35 billion of economic
activity within the EU, which for a growing industry puts it within striking distance of more mature industries such
as semiconductors (around €250 billion) and telecoms (some €2000 billion) — certainly big enough for policy
makers to take notice.
A series of working parties are curren
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