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Microsoft calls for ageing EU data laws to be overhauled for Cloud Computing

  • Microsoft's chief legal counsel wants to see European Union data protection and retention laws made fit for purpose if the benefits of Cloud Computing are to be realised.

Microsoft has called on the European Union (EU) to clear the way for Cloud Computing by updating and unifying outmoded data protection and data retention laws.

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Business Cloud Summit 2009

In the latest of our series of videos from the Business Cloud Summit 09, we talk to customers on the frontline of the Cloud.

Business Cloud Summit 2010- the Business Cloud one year on!

We said that 2009 was the Year of the Cloud. We were wrong. In reality it was a year of the Cloud, albeit an important year. It was the year that Cloud Computing adoption gained sufficient traction that even if your organisation hadn't begun to roll out Cloud-based technologies, it needed at least to put them on the corporate agenda for consideration. 

It was against this backdrop that the first Business Cloud Summit was held. Reflecting the greater and more mainstream take-up of Cloud Computing, this year's Business Cloud Summit is very much The Business Cloud – One Year On! We're going to be hearing from even more of the increasingly established and experienced practitioners of Cloud Computing in both the private and public sectors.  You really won't want to miss this... Read more.