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Cloud Computing With Borders May Be On Horizon in Europe

Submitted by Jennifer L. Schenker on May 18, 2010

A proposal to build a national federation of interconnected computing clouds in France, funded in part by government in order to protect the country's sovereignty, data privacy and local jobs, is gaining favor. Some fear that the idea, which is in part a backlash against American companies like Google, will spread to other parts of the Continent, potentially undermining the promised benefits to Europeans of  cloud computing.Read more

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