how european policy impacts cloud in the uk public sector

EU and your cloud: How European policy impacts cloud in the UK public sector

Phil Wainewright VP, EuroCloud & cloud industry analyst

@philww & zdnet.com/blog/SAAS

www.eurocloud.org.uk/ | October 2012 meetup London | © EuroCloud UK, 2012

Agenda

• About EuroCloud

• What we mean by cloud

• What cloud means in Europe

• The politics of EU cloud policy

• What happens next

• How it affects the UK

eurocloud.org.uk | Jan 2013 Government in the Cloud | © EuroCloud UK, 2013

Who is EuroCloud? • Brings together the cloud

industry across Europe

• Active in around 30 countries

• 1500+ companies are members

• Ranging from SMEs to global vendors

• From applications to infrastructure

• Dedicated to cloud


EuroCloud’s mission


What do we mean by ‘cloud’? Forrester: Sizing the Cloud April 2011 (Forrester #58161)

Business Process

as a Service

Software

as a Service

Platform

as a Service

Infrastructure

as a Service


An economist’s view of ‘cloud’

SaaS

PaaS

IaaS

User outcomes Cloud usage

Cloud services

Cloud production


What cloud means in Europe


Converging on a European ideal?

“While Cloud initiatives in the Member States are welcome, such as Andromède in France, G-Cloud in the UK and Trusted Cloud in Germany, this is not enough and not the most efficient way to grow the market for everybody's benefit.”


Who’s who in EU cloud policy

Viviane Reding

Michel Barnier

Neelie Kroes

Jose Manuel Barroso


Economic impact of cloud

http://ec.europa.eu/information_society/activities/cloudcomputing/docs/quantitative_estimates.pdf




EU cloud strategy, 27th Sep 2012 "Cloud computing is a game-changer for our economy. Without EU action, we will stay stuck in national fortresses and miss out on billions in economic gains. We must achieve critical mass and a single set of rules across Europe. We must tackle the perceived risks of cloud computing head-on.” – Neelie Kroes


What happens next

3 key actions:

• Cutting through the jungle of standards

• Safe and fair contract terms and conditions

• European Cloud Partnership for public sector

http://ec.europa.eu/information_society/activities/cloudcomputing/docs/com/com_cloud.pdf




Taming the standards jungle

• ETSI to identify „necessary‟ standards

• ENISA to list voluntary certification schemes

• Agree data protection and low carbon specs

http://xkcd.com/927/

http://xkcd.com/927/


Safe and fair T’s & C’s

• Model terms for cloud SLAs

• Model terms and conditions in line with Common European Sales Law

• Work on a code of conduct for cloud providers


European Cloud Partnership

• Public sector is 20% of all IT spending

• Steering board set up to identify common requirements for public sector cloud use

• Objectives are:

– Enable joint public procurement of cloud services – Boost chances for European cloud providers to

grow and achieve a competitive scale – Deliver cheaper and better eGovernment – Shape the market to benefit private use


If it works it’ll be disruptive …


But old habits die hard …


Who’s on the ECP steering board?


Europe’s ICT great and good … Toomas Hendrik Ilves, President of Estonia (Chair)

Katarina de Brisis, Deputy DG, Norwegian Ministry of Administration

Aitor Cubo Contreras, Deputy DG, Spanish Ministry of Finance

Jérôme Filippini, ICT Corporate Director for France

Maarten Hillenaar, Government CIO, Dutch Ministry of the Interior

Reinhard Posch CIO and Chair of DIGITAL:AUSTRIA, Austrian Federal Government

Andrzej Ręgowski, Vice-Minister, Polish Ministry of Administration and Digital Affairs

Léo Apotheker. former CEO, HP and SAP

Thierry Breton, Chairman and CEO, ATOS

Bernard Charles,President and CEO, Dassault Systèmes

Christian Fredrikson, President and CEO, F-Secure Corporation

Michael Gorriz, CIO, Daimler AG, and President, EuroCIO

Jim Hagemann-Snabe, Co-CEO, SAP AG

Matthew Key, Chairman & CEO, Telefonica Digital

Pierre Nanterme, CEO, Accenture

Karl-Heinz Streibich, Chairman and CEO, Software AG

Hans Vestberg, President and CEO, Ericsson

Werner Vogels, VP and CTO, Amazon.com


ECP action plan

• Participate in standards and certification work

• Identify three cross-border and interoperable cloud pilot projects to start by 2014

• By 2015, identify 25% of „federal‟ spending as potential for migration to cloud

• Develop a road map for moving Europe into the cloud quickly and safely


What’s the UK impact? • Must get our views

across this year

• Compromise is inevitable

• Big concerns about barriers to SME and open-source

• Will have to adapt to new EU-inspired procurement processes

• Opportunities for cross-border projects