Retrospective: cloud, Europe and frictionless enterprise This article is sponsored by:

How cloud works, what Europe thinks of it, and its potential to transform the enterprise: Phil concludes his review of the year

Listen up Mr President! Top techs talk tough on NSA This article is sponsored by:

It was only a matter of time before the tech industry needed to be seen to take a tougher stand over the NSA PRISM snooping scandal and so it is today that 8 leading firms have drawn a collective line in the sand.

Europe's Thanksgiving gift to the US - a list of demands This article is sponsored by:

Europe won’t be scrapping the Safe Harbor deal with the US just yet. But no-one should relax just yet as the European Commission yesterday presented the US with a list of demands that seem unlikely to do much to improve European/US relations.

ENISA analysis exposes Europe's divided cloud This article is sponsored by:

For those in the European Commission with grand ambitions for standardization of cloud strategies, the European Union Agency for Network and Information Security has a tough message.

An EPIC fail over NSA and the 'high risk' cloud This article is sponsored by:

How to deal with the NSA problem? Sensible debate or over-react by calling the cloud unsafe? EPIC knows which option to choose: the wrong one!

Box's Aaron Levie on "incredibly bad and inappropriate" NSA spying This article is sponsored by:

Open government and global thinking This article is sponsored by:

Cloud for Europe: another public IT project built to fail? This article is sponsored by:

Cloud for Europe is supposed to unleash cross-border public sector procurement of cloud services, but the project has failure written all over it

Is Europe blinded by Silicon Envy? This article is sponsored by:

Does Europe have a bad case of Silicon Envy? And if it does, how best to shake this off and take a more positive outlook on developing a European technology industry?

Unraveling the cloud in Europe This article is sponsored by:

A progress update on Europe's policy moves to encourage uptake of cloud computing with a strategy for standards, a code of conduct and industry partnership

Lobbying government? Be careful what you wish for This article is sponsored by:

Cloud industry players have been lobbying policy makers to take them seriously. Now that they have their attention, they are complaining.

Europe stirs the crucible of data privacy This article is sponsored by:

The EU's plans to harmonize data protection have stirred a crucible of strong emotions that play across three separate dimensions

PRISM exploitation drives EU's data protection overhaul This article is sponsored by:

The European Parliament's civil liberties and home affairs committee will next week vote on more than 4000 amendments to highly controversial data protection proposals which could have a major impact on the global digital economy.