{"id":8526,"date":"2013-08-06T23:23:11","date_gmt":"2013-08-06T23:23:11","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/www.cloudcomputing-news.net\/news\/2013\/aug\/07\/what-will-be-future-cloud-europe\/"},"modified":"2013-08-06T23:23:11","modified_gmt":"2013-08-06T23:23:11","slug":"what-will-be-the-future-of-the-cloud-in-europe","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/icloud.pe\/blog\/what-will-be-the-future-of-the-cloud-in-europe\/","title":{"rendered":"What will be the future of the cloud in Europe?"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>I recently tuned in to a GigaOM webinar on the future of the cloud a few weeks back. Key topics discussed were what&rsquo;s driving cloud adoption in Europe and whether Europe can truly build a vibrant cloud ecosystem.<\/p>\n<p>It was an interesting debate, which got me thinking: We listen to the likes of Gartner and other analysts on what the future will bring for cloud, but what do you as a cloud user or vendor really think about this?<\/p>\n<p>GigaOM predicted that EMEA would account for 20 per cent of the global cloud market at about $40bn in 2014 and that&rsquo;s <strong>ALL<\/strong> cloud technology. Even though that&rsquo;s a more conservative number than Gartner, its still a big number, and I am sure it is one that has a lot of vendors salivating. Given that is a bucket that includes ALL Cloud technologies, it would be interesting to &#8230;<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>I recently tuned in to a GigaOM webinar on the future of the cloud a few weeks back. Key topics discussed were what&rsquo;s driving cloud adoption in Europe and whether Europe can truly build a vibrant cloud ecosystem.<br \/>\nIt was an interesting debate, whi&#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-8526","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/icloud.pe\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/8526","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=8526"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/icloud.pe\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/8526\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/icloud.pe\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=8526"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/icloud.pe\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=8526"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/icloud.pe\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=8526"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}