| By Ignacio M. Llorente | Article Rating: |
|
| December 15, 2012 09:05 AM EST | Reads: |
1,040 |
Neelie Kroes, European Commissioner for Digital Agenda, presented on Friday at the Open Source Conference 2012 the three ways the European Union (EU) is supporting Open ICT systems, namely open-source, open-procurement, and open-data. Mrs. Kroes outlined the huge benefits of open-source and open-standards, the several hundred-million-euro benefits per year of Open ICT systems for the public sector alone, and how the EU is using open source solutions itself.Mrs. Kroes made reference to OpenNebula as flagship of European open-source cloud innovation supported by EU investments that is laying the basis for interoperable data centers.
We are really proud of this!
Read the original blog entry...
Published December 15, 2012 Reads 1,040
Copyright © 2012 SYS-CON Media, Inc. — All Rights Reserved.
Syndicated stories and blog feeds, all rights reserved by the author.
More Stories By Ignacio M. Llorente
Dr. Llorente is Director of the OpenNebula Project and CEO & co-founder at C12G Labs. He is an entrepreneur and researcher in the field of cloud and distributed computing, having managed several international projects and initiatives on Cloud Computing, and authored many articles in the leading journals and proceedings books. Dr. Llorente is one of the pioneers and world's leading authorities on Cloud Computing. He has held several appointments as independent expert and consultant for the European Commission and several companies and national governments. He has given many keynotes and invited talks in the main international events in cloud computing, has served on several Groups of Experts on Cloud Computing convened by international organizations, such as the European Commission and the World Economic Forum, and has contributed to several Cloud Computing panels and roadmaps. He founded and co-chaired the Open Grid Forum Working Group on Open Cloud Computing Interface, and has participated in the main European projects in Cloud Computing. Llorente holds a Ph.D in Computer Science (UCM) and an Executive MBA (IE Business School), and is a Full Professor (Catedratico) and the Head of the Distributed Systems Architecture Group at UCM.
- Cloud People: A Who's Who of Cloud Computing
- Windows Azure IaaS Reaches General Availability
- New Relic Q1 2013 Blazes Past Growth Targets and Reaches 40,000 Active Customer Accounts
- CollabNet And UC4 Announce General Availability Of Joint Enterprise DevOps Platform
- The Software Freedom Conservancy – Fundraising Campaign: Non-Profit Accounting Software
- MicroStrategy Announces General Availability of MicroStrategy 9.3.1
- AMAX Launches StorMax(TM) CFS, powered by IBM(R) General Parallel File System(TM) (GPFS(TM))
- New Relic Named Best Place to Work in the Bay Area for Second Year in a Row
- MicroStrategy Announces General Availability of MicroStrategy 9.3.1
- Project Floodlight Grows to the World’s Largest SDN Ecosystem; Global Users, Contributors and Partners Innovating Using Open Source SDN
- HotLink Debuts Amazon EC2 Plug-in for Microsoft SCVMM with Latest Release of HotLink Hybrid Express
- RightScale Supports Windows Azure Infrastructure Services General Availability
- Cloud People: A Who's Who of Cloud Computing
- Windows Azure IaaS Reaches General Availability
- New Relic Q1 2013 Blazes Past Growth Targets and Reaches 40,000 Active Customer Accounts
- Portable Experimenter’s Platform, Powered by Raspberry Pi
- SUSE Receives Common Criteria Security Certifications
- Basho Announces Open Source Riak CS and General Availability of Riak CS Enterprise v1.3
- CollabNet And UC4 Announce General Availability Of Joint Enterprise DevOps Platform
- Granular Enforcement of Access to File Systems Featured in Latest Release of FoxT ServerControl
- The Software Freedom Conservancy – Fundraising Campaign: Non-Profit Accounting Software
- MicroStrategy Announces General Availability of MicroStrategy 9.3.1
- AMAX Launches StorMax(TM) CFS, powered by IBM(R) General Parallel File System(TM) (GPFS(TM))
- New Relic Named Best Place to Work in the Bay Area for Second Year in a Row
- Cloud People: A Who's Who of Cloud Computing
- Red Hat Named "Platinum Sponsor" of Virtualization Conference & Expo
- An Introduction to Ant
- Cloud Expo 2011 East To Attract 10,000 Delegates and 200 Exhibitors
- Google Web Toolkit: Finally Java Has Been Put into JavaScript!
- Cloud Expo, Inc. Announces Cloud Expo 2011 New York Venue
- AJAX World RIA Conference News - AJAX & RIA with Server-Side JavaScript
- Early Notes on GoogleApps
- President & CTO of 3tera Speaking Next Week at SYS-CON's Cloud Computing Expo November 19-21 in Silicon Valley
- Rating JRuby, Jython, and Groovy on the Java Platform
- Python Creator Guido van Rossum to Present the Next-Generation Python 3000
- Rackspace Cloud APIs Open Sourced
























