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April 24, 2012 
(Amcham China) By Michael Mudd
Michael Mudd (OCA Asia-Pacific Representative) sets out the benefits and uses of Cloud Computing in the April issue of China Amcham Magazine.
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April 11, 2012 
This paper by Kuan Hon, Prof Christopher Millard and Prof Ian Walden, Queen Mary University of London, School of Law, describes and assesses the UK government's 2011-2012 pilot cloud computing framework, G-Cloud v1, including lessons learned, particularly contractual and other legal issues.
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March 27, 2012 
(Eco-Business) By Jenny Marusiak
Michael Mudd, the Hong Kong-based Asia Pacific representative for an industry association called the Open Computing Alliance, comments on the work that has been invested into turning data centres greener.
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Green IT February 7, 2012 
(Business Cloud News)
The UK Government is expected to announce around 250 successful suppliers for its cloud computing procurement initiative, G-Cloud, a source close to the process has told Business Cloud News. An official announcement on winning bids is expected to be provided by Minister for the Cabinet Office, Francis Maude, on 13th February, next Monday.
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January 31, 2012 
(Business Cloud News) blog post by Ian Bergin, Cloud Evangelist
While SOPA has created plenty of exposure and led to much positive action in the US of late, Ireland still awaits a governmental ruling that could yet have a detrimental effect on the country’s bid to become a centre of cloud computing excellence (and a whole lot more). One of our guest bloggers, Ian Bergin, has been at the centre of the ‘Stop SOPA Ireland’ campaign, and explains why he thinks the potential ruling could prove so disastrous for his country's future online economy.
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January 27, 2012
(Business Cloud News)
The Digital Agenda Commissioner for Europe, Neelie Kroes, has announced that the European Commission will give €10m towards a new Cloud Computing Partnership, to try and help aid “flagging economies” on the continent.
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January 23, 2012 
(Business Cloud News)
Andy Nelson has been appointed the new CIO for UK Government, replacing Joe Harley who announced his retirement late last year. Nelson will retain his position as CIO for the Ministry of Justice alongside the new role, and will be closely involved with the current procurement process for the Government’s G-Cloud initiative.
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January 14, 2012 
Blog post by Vice-President of the European Commission, Neelie Kroes
...After 12 months of intensive discussions and consultations, I am currently preparing the first in a series of concrete announcements related to the European Cloud Computing Strategy. I want Europe to be not only cloud-friendly but cloud-active: the right common rules could enhance cloud development, but the wrong choices on data protection would cut off lots of potential uses and business offerings before they’ve even started. At the World Economic Forum in Davos, I will announce a concrete project aimed at making it easier for buyers – particularly public sector buyers – to cooperate on requirement definitions and possibly pool their resources when procuring Cloud Computing services.
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January 11, 2012 
(BBC News) By Tim Weber
Spanish banking giant BBVA is switching its 110,000 staff to use Google's range of enterprise software.
The deal is the biggest that the search giant has signed with one company for its cloud-computing services, where software is offered as a service via the internet.
The bank told the BBC it would use Google's tools only for internal communication.
Click here to read the article at BBC News.