{"id":3438,"date":"2012-09-03T10:18:39","date_gmt":"2012-09-03T10:18:39","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/www.cloudcomputing-news.net\/news\/2012\/sep\/03\/bsa-eu-cloud-uptake-lower-global-average\/"},"modified":"2012-09-03T10:18:39","modified_gmt":"2012-09-03T10:18:39","slug":"bsa-eu-cloud-uptake-lower-than-global-average","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/icloud.pe\/blog\/bsa-eu-cloud-uptake-lower-than-global-average\/","title":{"rendered":"BSA: EU cloud uptake lower than global average"},"content":{"rendered":"<p><strong>Highest number of cloud users in Romania and Greece, according to research<\/strong><\/p>\n<p>Research from software advocates Business Software Alliance (BSA) has inferred a surprising lack of cloud usage among European Union computer users.<\/p>\n<p>The figures, surveying 4000 people, showed that across the EU, whilst 86% of respondents used cloud services for personal use, less than a third (29%) used it for business purposes.<\/p>\n<p>Greece and Romania had the most cloud users with 39%, higher than the global average of 24%, with Poland (25%), the UK (21%) and Austria (20%) making up the top five.<\/p>\n<p>The most popular responses to the question &ldquo;What type of online cloud computing services have you used?&rdquo; were:<\/p>\n<ul>\n<li>Email service (79%), compared to a global figure of 78%<\/li>\n<li>Online word processing aligned with 36% of EU consumers (45% global numbers)<\/li>\n<li>Photo storage and online games came joint third (35%) with European computer users<\/li>\n<\/ul>\n<p>The global figures &#8230;<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Highest number of cloud users in Romania and Greece, according to research<br \/>\nResearch from software advocates Business Software Alliance (BSA) has inferred a surprising lack of cloud usage among European Union computer users.<br \/>\nThe figures, surveying 4000 &#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-3438","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/icloud.pe\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/3438","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=3438"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/icloud.pe\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/3438\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/icloud.pe\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=3438"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/icloud.pe\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=3438"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/icloud.pe\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=3438"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}