Slough is fast becoming the UK's first stop for cloud services firms wanting an in-country data center as Salesforce.com follows VMware in opening up its operation there, with plans to move to France and Germany next.
200 days into a 400 day challenge to transform government service delivery and successes are celebrated at Sprint14. But Forrester Research isn't so sure about some of the changes.
Some IT suppliers to government are accused of “appalling” behaviour and conducting an “abusive” relationship with their public sector paymasters. Them’s fighting words from a senior government official.
While EuroCloud has been debating the European Union's Cloud Computing plans, ETSI's year long consideration of the cloud standards landscape has delivered an interesting new report.
I'm incredibly sceptical about the efforts from the European Commission to create a 'European Cloud', fearing as I do that the ongoing PRISM scandal is being exploited to support a political agenda in Europe. Here's the latest document from the Commission which makes me rather annoyed.
