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18 Oct Europe wants to know – What do cloud companies stand for? – Chapter 5: A cloud company has to stand for more than technology

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The times are turbulent. Just as Europe and the rest of the world appear at last to be emerging from an historic pandemic, new storm clouds have suddenly appeared. Europe is embroiled in its first full-on land war since 1945. Inflation is soaring. Economic growth...

25 Sep ECA Series: Professor Justus Haucap presents research paper on the economic impact of cloud in Europe

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On 14th September, Professor Justus Haucap, Director of the Düsseldorf Institute for Competition Economics and partner of DICE consult, presented a research paper on the economic impact of cloud in Europe. By revolutionizing how companies and government agencies access and use resources, cloud technology has...

29 Aug ECA welcomes Microsoft’s new announcement

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"Today’s announcement of license changes by European Cloud Alliance member Microsoft is a welcome first step in transforming the company’s European Cloud Principles into concrete actions. They are the outcome of the kind of productive dialogue within the European cloud ecosystem that is needed to spur cloud-enabled...

17 May Europe wants to know—what do cloud companies stand for? Chapter 2: Digital Sovereignty

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The founding proposition of cloud computing is that the servers which store customer data and execute applications are no longer directly controlled by customers on their own premises. Instead, they are located somewhere else, owned and operated by another company. That indefinite “somewhere else” is...

11 May Europe wants to know—what do cloud companies stand for? Chapter 1: Cybersecurity

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Today more than at any time in the past, organizations, governments, and private individuals live under a permanent threat of cyberattack. Both money and data can be lost in these attacks, and sometimes much more. The vast majority of cyberattacks no longer come from the...

31 Mar In Support of Free Flowing Data

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Creating a Digital Single Market in Europe will help unlock opportunities for businesses, jobs, growth and consumers that could contribute €415 billion per year to Europe's economy. Ensuring data can flow freely across Europe’s borders is a key prerequisite for unlocking this potential. In February the...

10 Mar Member Case Study: One News Page

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Speed is of the essence for One News Page, which prides itself on the split-second download times for its video-heavy news links. The British website, which syndicates and aggregates stories from media outlets around the world, proudly bills itself as “probably the fastest access news portal...

08 Feb Cloud technology trends: The European Cloud is Rising

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This year will see European organizations – large and small, public and private – shift a larger share than ever of their IT applications to the cloud. The exact size of the cloud computing market in Europe is difficult to measure, because ideas about what...