Boosting presence of EU-based cloud providers would improve business take-up of cloud services
January 22, 2013
Grazed from Out-Law.com. Author: Editorial Staff.
The European Economic and Social Committee (EESC) said that businesses and individuals would be more likely to utilise cloud computing (CC) if their "trust" in the technology grew. It said that there is inherently less trust in using non-EU providers of cloud services and encouraged the Commission to take measures, such as enabling the use of "subsidies", to encourage EU-based cloud suppliers to emerge and improve trust levels.
The EESC said that there is currently a "dependency" on non-European companies providing cloud services to EU citizens because some existing EU-based providers lack the "same level of global visibility and influence" as Amazon, Microsoft and Google and are therefore "unable to compete" with those US firms…
"The Committee recommends that the Commission seek to promote the development of European digital energy production, i.e. the emergence and strengthening of European suppliers of CC infrastructure (IaaS: Infrastructure as a Service)," Staffan Nilsson, president of the EESC, said in a new opinion (12-page Word doc) the EESC has published on the cloud computing strategy issued by the Commission last year…
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