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Starting from a CSA survey on most important factors that businesses consider when assessing a cloud service provider, Skyhigh networks has come up with a list of 17 evaluation criteria that companies with a formal process use as part of their assessment.

Tech firms, civil liberties groups and trade bodies welcome what could be a landmark ruling by a US court in protecting the privacy of cloud services.

SLA-Ready project's website has three brand new sections covering several aspects of Service Level Agreements and Cloud Computing: STANDARDS, SLA RESEARCH and the BUSINESS HUB.

On 19th of July, SLA-Ready participated to European Commission Catalogue of Services meeting held in Brussels. The objective of the EC catalogue is to provide support and guide for public procurers when referring to ICT standards and profiles of standards in their call for tenders.

Helix Nebula - The Science Cloud (HNSciCloud) launched a €5.3 million tender for the establishment of a European hybrid cloud platform. The purpose of the platform is to support the deployment of high-performance computing and big-data capabilities for scientific research.

ENISA published a survey on cloud security to study how cloud it’s applied to eHealth sector. The study aims to analyse the state of the art, opportunities and difficulties in the cloud adoption within the eHealth and associated services.

SLA-Ready is helping cloud service customers to become Service Level Agreement (SLA) savvy with a suite of practical and user-friendly tools and guides so they know what to do, what to expect and what to trust in every phase of the service lifecycle.

Cloud computing brings benefits and risks. To help the cloud industry and regulators in risk management ENISA has identified 35 specific risk categories to pay particular attention to when selecting a cloud service and when using it.

In the labour market there is a lack of cloud security specialists. But which are the needed skills?

Cloudscape Brazil is an unique arena for policy makers, research and industry representatives in Europe and Brazil to debate about the Cloud computing and ICT topics for mutual cooperation. The event will take place on 6-7 July 2016 in Porto Alegre, Brazil.