Service Level Agreements for cloud computing services Study about standards terms and performance criteria in service level agreements (SLA) for cloud computing services (SMART 2013/0039) This document is the final report which has been prepared by time.lex and Spark in the European Commission's...

This is the Final Report of the study "SMART 2013/0043 - Uptake of Cloud in Europe. Follow-up of IDC Study on Quantitative estimates of the demand for Cloud Computing in Europe and the likely barriers to take-up "entrusted by the European Commission DG CONNECT to IDC, carried out from January...

Public administrations are often organised in silos: monolithic architecture models make it difficult to re-use services for the development of new applications. What if these services were connected and the access to information open? The European Commission is piloting the potential of a Cloud...

This is the Final Report of the study "SMART 2013/0043 - Uptake of Cloud in Europe. Follow-up of IDC Study on Quantitative estimates of the demand for Cloud Computing in Europe and the likely barriers to take-up "entrusted by the European Commission DG CONNECT to IDC, carried out from January...

This report examines existing certification schemes relevant to cloud computing, focusing on benefits and challenges of such schemes as well as the identification of possible supporting actions and next steps recommendations as regards the implementation of the key action on certification of the...

This report examines existing certification schemes relevant to cloud computing, focusing on benefits and challenges of such schemes as well as the identification of possible supporting actions and next steps recommendations as regards the implementation of the key action on certification of the...

The European Union, like most of the world, faces economically challenging times. In such times, it becomes all the more important to recognise and seize new and unique opportunities to drive growth, stimulate innovation, and to provide benefits to citizens, businesses and public...

The objective of this study was to analyse the current national initiatives for the deployment of clouds in the public sector in ten Member States, to identify and describe best practice use cases and to propose pilots for those application areas where current cloud take-up is absent or however...