2012-09-27

European Commision releases their final European Cloud Computing Strategy document

The document can be view here cloud computing strategy.
What does it mean? Well it's a strategy document, so if you're a CIO/CTO or Enterprise Architect it gives another research stream.
The 16 page document at a high (very) level aims to lay the foundations to address Interoperability, Portability, Security, Copyright, Licensing, Standards, Compliance, Certification, Adoption, Risks and Service Level Agreements.
The document is fairly meaningless, but it gives you an idea how Cloud computing is growing in significance to warrant a European Commission level Cloud policy framework, and a strategy to realize it.
I recommend reading the Data Protection Working Party's Opinion 05/2012 on Cloud Computing for a more in-depth look at some of Cloud Computing's considerations.