Cloud Computing: Will there be an Amazon of Europe?
October 4, 2012
Grazed from GigaOM. Author: Barb Darrow.
Can a single vendor dominate the public cloud services market in Europe as Amazon has managed to do in the US? It’s not very likely. The single biggest reason is obvious: Europe is not the US. Can one company dominate the public cloud Infrastructure-as-a-Service (IaaS) market in Europe as Amazon has in the US?
The short answer is no. The longer answer is that Europe — for many reasons — is a much more fragmented (perhaps fractious) market than the US — or North America for that matter. Here’s why it would be hard for one infrastructure player — even Amazon — to dominate the European Cloud…
Data protection sitch remain fuzzy
If the European Commission is able to unify the varied data protection mandates across the 27 European (EU) countries as promised, public cloud adoption would probably speed up. Many companies are just deferring cloud decisions — or adopting private cloud that would let them keep their data local — because they don’t know how these laws would affect them now or in the future. The EC cloud computing report, issued last week, does recommend that the various governments come up with a comprehensive plan on data protection, the goal being a “single set of rules at the EU level and a one-stop shop for enforcement.”…
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