{"id":4376,"date":"2012-10-29T11:32:07","date_gmt":"2012-10-29T11:32:07","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/www.cloudcomputing-news.net\/blog-hub\/2012\/oct\/29\/is-the-road-to-the-european-cloud-paved-with-good-intentions\/"},"modified":"2012-10-29T11:32:07","modified_gmt":"2012-10-29T11:32:07","slug":"is-the-road-to-the-european-cloud-paved-with-good-intentions","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/icloud.pe\/blog\/is-the-road-to-the-european-cloud-paved-with-good-intentions\/","title":{"rendered":"Is the road to the European cloud paved with good intentions?"},"content":{"rendered":"<div style=\"text-align: left;\" dir=\"ltr\">At the end of last month the EU released its plans for &ldquo;Unleashing the Potential of Cloud Computing in Europe&rdquo;.<\/div>\n<div style=\"text-align: left;\" dir=\"ltr\">&nbsp;<\/div>\n<div style=\"text-align: left;\" dir=\"ltr\">But although the&nbsp;document(s)&nbsp;&#8211;&nbsp;just like EU commissioner Kroes in this&nbsp;video&nbsp;&#8211; do a good job describing&nbsp;in non-technical terms what cloud is and why Europe should care about having a competitive cloud position, it kind of stops there.<\/div>\n<div style=\"text-align: left;\" dir=\"ltr\">&nbsp;<\/div>\n<div style=\"text-align: left;\" dir=\"ltr\">Even though it defines three key actions &ndash; around Standards, Terms and Public Sector taking a lead role &#8211; most described actions consist of softer items such as &nbsp;&ldquo;promoting trust by coordinating with stakeholders&rdquo;, &ldquo;identifying best practices&rdquo;, &rdquo;promoting partnerships&rdquo; and &ldquo;investigating how to make use of other available instruments&rdquo;.<\/div>\n<div style=\"text-align: left;\" dir=\"ltr\">&nbsp;<\/div>\n<div style=\"text-align: left;\" dir=\"ltr\">Now of course European cloud computing can benefit from funding reserved for other EU initiatives such as the Connecting Europe Facility, and from side initiatives such as the &ldquo;Opinion on Cloud Computing&rdquo; published by the Article 29 working party that gives privacy-related contracting &#8230;<\/div>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>At the end of last month the EU released its plans for &ldquo;Unleashing the Potential of Cloud Computing in Europe&rdquo;.<br \/>\n&nbsp;<br \/>\nBut although the&nbsp;document(s)&nbsp;&#8211;&nbsp;just like EU commissioner Kroes in this&nbsp;video&nbsp;&#8211; do a good job des&#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-4376","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/icloud.pe\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/4376","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=4376"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/icloud.pe\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/4376\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/icloud.pe\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=4376"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/icloud.pe\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=4376"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/icloud.pe\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=4376"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}