The European Commission produced a communication entitled “Unleashing the Potential of Cloud Computing in Europe,” which announced a new cloud computing strategy for the European Union. The EC released a statement saying that the Cloud computing strategy will, if it works, facilitate the use of the cloud across the EU both in the state and private sector.

This would create and estimated 2.5 million jobs and 160 billion Euros added to the EU’s GDP by 2020.

The initiative would align cloud computing services with existing EU protocols regarding consumer rights such as privacy and security of data under the Data Protection Directive. This would mean that those individuals concerned with the distribution of their data online and in the cloud would have a better degree of protection.

The proposal has several strategies including:

– To put in place scheme whereby technical standards are voluntarily taken up by the relevant …