The UK government has come in for considerable criticism around take up of Cloud2 and associated problems, as w have posted recently. Getting to grips with cloud computing, its challenges, opportunities and threats is not, however, a purely domestic problem.
The Commission promised an EU Cloud Computing Strategy by 31 September 2012, but there is still no sign of it emerging. EU Observer sets this worrying lack of progress in the context of widespread confusion around Europe about what the “cloud” is and the ignorance of many businesses that they are in fact already using it….