European Cloud Initiative

Citation
European Cloud Initiative-Building a competitive data and knowledge economy in Europe {COM(2016) 178 final) (Apr. 19, 2016) (full-text)

Overview
It will strengthen Europe's position in data-driven innovation, improve competitiveness and cohesion, and help create a Digital Single Market in Europe.

This initiative will provide European science, industry and public authorities with:


 * a world-class data infrastructure to store and manage data;
 * high-speed connectivity to transport data; and
 * ever more powerful High Performance Computers to process data.