{"id":1864,"date":"2012-05-31T11:32:13","date_gmt":"2012-05-31T11:32:13","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/www.cloudcomputing-news.net\/news\/2012\/may\/31\/europe-two-years-behind-us-cloud-adoption-says-gartner\/"},"modified":"2012-05-31T11:32:13","modified_gmt":"2012-05-31T11:32:13","slug":"europe-two-years-behind-us-in-cloud-adoption-says-gartner","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/icloud.pe\/blog\/europe-two-years-behind-us-in-cloud-adoption-says-gartner\/","title":{"rendered":"Europe two years behind US in cloud adoption, says Gartner"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>Many European companies may be moving to cloud now but they&rsquo;re two years behind America in terms of cloud adoption, according to research house Gartner.<\/p>\n<p>The analysts have put the difference down to a wide range of problems, including the diversity of Europe&rsquo;s 44 different nations, the recession and Euro crisis, as well as European privacy rules relating to data protection.<\/p>\n<p>Gartner elaborated upon these &ldquo;inhibitors&rdquo; and commented on each one. The report stressed that there were ways of using cloud safely, despite worries about privacy.<\/p>\n<p>Similarly, Gartner noted complex business-to-business (B2B) issues related to Europe&rsquo;s diversity, stating that because cloud computing was a fast growing business it will subsequently slow down the productivity of those who want to offer cloud services across Europe.<\/p>\n<p>Regarding the EU in general, Gartner commented that while the EU legislative process was extremely secure, it was time-inefficient because of it and &#8230;<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Many European companies may be moving to cloud now but they&rsquo;re two years behind America in terms of cloud adoption, according to research house Gartner.<br \/>\nThe analysts have put the difference down to a wide range of problems, including the diversit&#8230;<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":9,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"closed","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-1864","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/icloud.pe\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/1864","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/icloud.pe\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/icloud.pe\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/icloud.pe\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/9"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/icloud.pe\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=1864"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/icloud.pe\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/1864\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/icloud.pe\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=1864"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/icloud.pe\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=1864"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/icloud.pe\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=1864"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}