Get the very latest information and education on the infrastructures that are ‘Powering the Cloud’ at SNW Europe, Datacenter Technologies & Virtualization World and hear top speakers, including EuroCloud Deutschland_eco’s Bernd Becker.

The ‘Powering the Cloud’ events – SNW Europe, Datacenter Technologies and Virtualization World – will take place on 30th and 31st October 2012 at Congress Frankfurt, Germany. The events form part of the world’s largest independently produced conference series focused on the evolution of architecture for a new world of mobility, Big Data and business agility.

Read the rest of this entry »

Yesterday saw the beginning of the new European ecoMeetup event series in Amsterdam, which was jointly hosted by eco and SoftLayer, and sponsored by Schleifenbauer. 58 delegates from the hosting, data center, cloud and telecoms industries, from Germany, Holland and the UK, turned up to make new business contacts and enjoy a relaxed power-point free evening with sunny weather, drinks, tasty food and even ice cream.

Read the rest of this entry »

Neelie Kroes, European Commissioner for the Digital Agenda, wants the European market to make better use of cloud computing and has called for an EU-wide cloud strategy. Kroes warned that creating national rather than European cloud strategies would hinder economical growth.

‘The benefits of the Cloud come from its economies of scale. As do the benefits of our Single Market. If we think small we won’t get them. If we take a national approach, content ourselves with small clouds stuck in small markets, if we lock data within old borders, then we are limiting our cloud ambition,’ Kroes said at the Economic Council Symposium ‘Cloud-Computing – Between Growth Opportunities and Privacy’ in Brussels, Belgium.

Read the rest of this entry »

Register now for the first EU ecoMeetup networking event 25th July in Amsterdam, hosted by eco, Europe’s largest Internet association, and SoftLayer, and sponsored by Schleifenbauer Products bv.

Read the rest of this entry »

LocalTalk Hamburg 2012 Summary

Data center experts gather to discuss ‘Climate and Energy-Wellness For Your Servers’.

This was the motto for the sixth and last networking event in our popular LocalTalk series ‘Data Center Revolution’ in Hamburg, for 2012.

More than 60 data center experts attended the event held in the conference centre of Stulz GmbH. The two companies hosting the event, Stulz and Schäfer IT-Systems, opened the evening by taking attendees on a tour through the Stulz showroom. This was followed by a panel discussion held by Roger Bellof, Stulz GmbH, Klaus Clasen, NTC – Notstrom Technik Clasen, Ronald Timmermans, Schleifenbauer Products and Peter Wäsch, Schäfer Ausstattungs-Systeme. Roland Broch, Business Development for eco, moderated the panel.

Read the rest of this entry »

Megan Richards, Deputy Director-General to the European Commission and part of the Converged Networks and Services directorate, commented that, ‘it shouldn’t matter where data is held as long as our rules apply.’

Richards is not worried about European data stored on servers in the US. ‘The legislation in the US is not so different from the legislation we have in the EU,’ she told reporters of the British magazine ‘The Register’.

Read the rest of this entry »

Report from Datacentres 2012

eco was, once again, extremely proud to be media partners for the growing and inspiring Datacentres Europe event, Datacentres 2012.  The event took place over two days, 23-24 May, in the beautiful surroundings of Nice, under the theme, ‘Energizing the Future of Information Technology Delivery’.  And it certainly felt like the attendees were gathering their thoughts, listening to their peers attentively and composing themselves for the intense, but rewarding, times ahead for Data Center services. The event attracted more than 750 attendees, from 30+ countries and 70 exhibitors – a significant increase on the previous year.

Read the rest of this entry »

What’s new in cloud computing?

This question was profoundly 23 May 2012 in Cologne by EuroCloud Deutschland_eco. Experts from all cloud computing sectors discussed and agreed that increasing numbers of companies are putting cloud computing on their agendas. The potential is therefore huge.

Interesting studies and market data were presented, along with best practices to overcome issues. It was agreed that whilst the number of companies who do use cloud computing is still small, their overall satisfaction is way above average.

Read the rest of this entry »

EuroCloud Deutschland_eco honoured the best companies in the cloud industry at a prestigious industry awards ceremony in Cologne last night. Those that have excelled in cloud services were awarded in four categories: best startup, best product, best case study commercial sector, and best case study public administration. The award winners will now move on to compete with winners of other European countries, held on 8 October – when Europe’s best will be celebrated with the EuroCloud Europe Awards.

Read the rest of this entry »

Commentary by Bernd Becker, Chairman of EuroCloud Deutschland_eco e.V.

The civil rights activist of FoeBud gave one of their popular Big Brother Awards to the Cloud industry. This anti-award warns of ‘abusive uses of technology and information’ and is presented annually. The Big Brother jury said that ‘the Cloud’ signified a ‘trend that deprives users of control over their own data. (…) This is a glaring violation of the fundamental right to the confidentiality and integrity of IT systems, a right that was introduced into German law by the Federal Constitutional Court in 2008.’

Read the rest of this entry »