During the course of the last six months, the European Cloud Alliance (ECA) together with the main industry associations in the Baltic states and Microsoft embarked on a listening tour of the Baltic States' cloud community to better understand local needs and ensure that cloud...
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...
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...
"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...
The European Green Deal is the EU’s collective vision to achieve a climate neutral continent by 2050, while still maintaining vigorous economic growth. As EC President von der Leyen has put it: “The European Green Deal is our new growth strategy – it is a strategy...
Europe needs growth. Only growth can revitalize lagging industrial sectors and distressed rural regions, reduce long-standing inequities in youth employment and pension arrangements, and preserve Europe’s standing in the global economy alongside the United States and China. Many factors contribute to the growth of a diverse...
“Cloud adoption and the development of European digital capabilities are a priority for the European Union. Microsoft has a unique role to play in supporting this effort. Brad Smith’s announcement today shows both understanding of and commitment to supporting this priority. The European Cloud Alliance is heartened that Microsoft has listened to...
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...
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...
ECA Executive Director Kim Gagné recently keynoted on the topic “The Case for Open Data” at conferences in Brussels and London, discussing policy approaches that will facilitate the kinds of data exchange that will propel innovation in the decades ahead. Calling data “the rocket fuel for artificial intelligence,” Kim explained how...