The News General DM News European cloud computing and SaaS community grows after Webroot joins EuroCloud
07 January 2010
EuroCloud, Europe’s first SaaS and cloud services community, is expanding with the membership of business security provider Webroot.
Mark Tickle, managing director of Webroot, said, “We see an increase in the adoption of cloud-based web and email security services, as more and more companies become aware of SaaS as a choice of efficiency and effectiveness. EuroCloud will convey best practices surrounding the use of cloud-based technologies as its acceptance grows.”
EuroCloud is led by Pierre-José Billotte, president and founder of the French ASP Forum. The community gathers together leading SaaS vendors, enablers, integrators and industry experts across Europe to share best practices and expand their businesses across the continent.
“In Europe, the upcoming cloud computing era provides new opportunities to build worldwide application and technology relationships to offer new, added-value solutions,” said Billotte.
To date, EuroCloud has created local communities in Denmark, Finland, Sweden, Germany, UK, Ireland, Belgium, The Netherlands, Luxembourg, France, Spain, Portugal, Italy, Ukraine and Turkey. EuroCloud intends to expand into further countries to achieve 20 regional organisations and around 500 members by 2014.
EuroCloud is also supported by Amazon Web Services, Qualys, Salesforce.com and SuccessFactors.
According to IDC, worldwide IT spending on cloud services will grow almost threefold by 2013, reaching $44.2bn.
