The year 2012 has definitively been marked by a rapid development of cloud computing technologies all over the world.

Though most of the companies have been operating in the cloud for years now, the true peak of cloud computing is yet to be seen in 2013, especially in Europe. Experts and cloud enthusiasts predict pretty much the same destiny of the cloud in the following year.

Worldwide expansion

The European Union has recently brought an act on implementing cloud computing technologies and standards for all member states. The reason it hesitated to adopt the cloud were the problems related to standardisation of the new technology across all the states.

As each country has different laws and governmental practices, the question of standardising was much more complicated than in the US. However, the year 2013 is expected to be a real breakthrough of cloud in Europe.

Besides Europe, there are other …