European cloud standardisation guidelines: what's it about?
Patrick Van Eecke and Antoon Dierick, of law firm DLA Piper, explain what the European Commission is doing to help firms standardise on cloud contracts
It is no secret that the European Commission wishes to boost the offering and the uptake of Europe-based cloud computing services. At the end of 2012, in its communication on the "Unleashing the Potential...
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