Europe taps Amazon and Telefonica for cloud push
November 20, 2012
Grazed from ZDNet. Author: David Meyer.
Top EU officials will meet with companies such as Amazon and Telefonica on Monday to discuss ways to set up a single European market for cloud services. The steering board meeting will be the first for the new European Cloud Partnership, which looks to take advantage of the public sector’s buying power to influence cloud computing provision in the region. To do this, the group will try to come up with common cloud procurement standards.
Digital agenda commissioner Neelie Kroes said in January that the European Commission will put €10m (£8m) into the partnership, in the hope of eventually pooling resources between member states…
The European Cloud Partnership’s steering committee is chaired by Estonian president Toomas Hendrik Ilves, and features members ranging from ousted HP chief executive Leo Apotheker to Amazon chief technology officer Werner Vogels. Companies such as F-Secure, Accenture, SAP and ATOS are also represented, as are the governments of Norway, Spain, France, Austria, Poland and the Netherlands…
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