Enabling a competitive multi-vendor market Join OpenForum Europe’s Round Table to explore how open standards and interoperability can enable a competitive multi-vendor cloud market. Coud has matured from a buzzword to a fully realised operational reality….

As I blogged last week, it was with great interest that I attended the DSM cloud stakeholders’ meeting which was hosted by the European Commission in the framework of the Net Futures conference. This kick-off meeting for the…

Having followed the work of the Cloud Select Industry Group (C-SIG) for the past 3 years, it is with great interest that I am planning to attend the Net Futures 2017 conference, and the DSM cloud stakeholder meeting in…

Let the Commission know your views on the emerging issues! The potential of free flow of data to support the achievement of the Digital Single Market (DSM) and of sustainable economic growth is placed high on the political agenda. The…

In a technological era where Big Data is “the new black gold”, European and international policy makers face the tough challenge of putting in place an enabling framework for business and innovation, whilst not sacrificing…

Just a month into my new role at OFE and I am reminded of how short autumn is in Brussels. After the lull of August, September is full of buzz and promise, and then sometime by mid-October it’s time to start worrying about achieving anything before the place starts to slow…

Now that the dust has settled down on the DSM package of announcements it is timely to measure them up against the acid test of ‘leadership’ that I focussed on in my last blogpost. Sorry but its generally a no. That doesn’t mean to say we don’t agree with the…

Today, the European Commission achieved the next milestone in implementing the Digital Single Market (DSM), with the publication of a Communications package consisting of the Priority ICT Standards Plan (PISP), and of Communications on Digitisation,…

The Brussels bubble quickly got lively after the Christmas and New Year break. Pressure came from several deadlines for public consultations, and anxiety is in the air – both this month, and in the following ones – relating to high-level agreements that will affect…

Today OFE published a position paper containing recommendations to the European Commission in the context of the public consultation on online platforms. OFE also submitted a response to the online questionnaire opened by the…

A strong trend that has marked the software industry in recent years has been the move away from selling software licences, in favour of subscription-based integrated services delivered through the Internet (aka Software as a Service aka SaaS). A notable characteristic of this…

The latest data from Eurostat indicates that only one out of every five EU enterprises makes use of cloud computing services, despite the benefits of such services being widely underlined and the untapped potential of cloud computing being universally agreed. Source: ETSI…