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Microsoft Opens European Cloud Centre
Home - eWeekEurope.co.uk (Mar 24 2011) Cloud Computing
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Microsoft has today opened a Cloud and Interoperability Centre (CIC) in Brussels to boost its ability to capitalise on the potential for innovation and growth of cloud computing in Europe.
The centre has been established as a result of the European Union’s (EU) pledge to become a smart, sustainable and inclusive economy by the year 2020.
In supporting this goal, Microsoft said the €5.3 million (£4.7m) centre would facilitate “collaboration among major European corporations, small and midsized enterprises (SMEs), consumers, and public-sector organisations, as well as working with governments and EU decision makers”.
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