{"id":8092,"date":"2013-07-07T23:22:44","date_gmt":"2013-07-07T23:22:44","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/www.cloudcomputing-news.net\/news\/2013\/jul\/08\/how-can-emea-catch-north-america-cloud\/"},"modified":"2013-07-07T23:22:44","modified_gmt":"2013-07-07T23:22:44","slug":"how-can-emea-catch-up-with-north-america-in-the-cloud","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/icloud.pe\/blog\/how-can-emea-catch-up-with-north-america-in-the-cloud\/","title":{"rendered":"How can EMEA catch up with North America in the cloud?"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>It&rsquo;s a fairly well known truth that EMEA (Europe, Middle East, Africa) isn&rsquo;t as up to speed as North America in utilising cloud technologies. It is being addressed, if the EU&rsquo;s cloud strategy launched last September is anything to go by &ndash; yet the gap is still there. So what can be done?<\/p>\n<p>Duncan Greenwood, sales director at CA Technologies, believes that EMEA CIOs, in these belt-tightening times, have pressures built on them borne out of survival rather than growth; and as a result, cloud is the only way to go.<\/p>\n<p>&ldquo;They&rsquo;ve got this innovation agenda that the business is demanding &ndash; faster, cheaper, we want it more, we want it now,&rdquo; Greenwood explains in a call to CloudTech. &ldquo;That&rsquo;s the difference in mentality between the US and Europe.<\/p>\n<p>&ldquo;The lack of investment innovation in technology is absolutely driving them to the cloud, and that&rsquo;s why &#8230;<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>It&rsquo;s a fairly well known truth that EMEA (Europe, Middle East, Africa) isn&rsquo;t as up to speed as North America in utilising cloud technologies. It is being addressed, if the EU&rsquo;s cloud strategy launched last September is anything to go &#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-8092","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/icloud.pe\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/8092","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=8092"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/icloud.pe\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/8092\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/icloud.pe\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=8092"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/icloud.pe\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=8092"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/icloud.pe\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=8092"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}