Lobbyists downgrade EU countries on cloud computing
March 8, 2013
Grazed from EUObserver. Author: Benjamin Fox.
Industry lobbyists have downgraded EU countries in their world ranking of top performers on cloud computing, as the Union prepares to overhaul its data protection rules. Japan, Australia and the US are top of the cloud computing class, according to the Cloud Scoreboard, published on Thursday (7 March) by the Business Software Alliance, an international lobby group.
Four EU countries – Germany, France, the UK and Italy – are in the top 10. But all six EU nations featured in the study have lost ground. Italy and Spain were the biggest fallers, slipping back by four and two places in the rankings, respectively…
The biggest mover was Singapore, which jumped five places to fifth overall. The BSA said data privacy was one the main benchmarks used to draft the survey. Cloud computing lets people store data on external servers instead of their own computers. It means they can access information and IT services from anywhere in the world and helps businesses to cope with surges in data volume…
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