When it comes to cars or machines, "made in Germany" is seen worldwide as a sign of quality, but some firms are now extending it to "cloud computing", the buzzword at this year’s CeBIT tech fair.
It may seem paradoxical to impose borders on this multi-billion-dollar industry, which allows users to store data remotely rather than on individual machines, but this is exactly the aim of Deutsche Telekom. The head of the German communications giant, Rene Obermann, told visitors to the CeBIT this year that "the ‘German Cloud’ could present a competitive advantage for us."…