Comments on: Why is OpenStack adoption slower in Europe?

By: Diego Parrilla

Diego Parrilla — Wed, 30 Jan 2013 12:58:23 +0000

I disagree with Chris’s vision. There are several enablers for cloud adoption:

1) Good environment to invest in innovation
2) A lack of infrastructures
3) Strong economy growth

USA adopts cloud mainly because 1)
Latinoamérica adopts cloud mainly because 2) and 3)
Asia adopts cloud mainly because 3) and 2)

Europe is not a good place for innovation, and we must admit it’s mature in terms of infrastructures, so the reason for slow cloud adoption is the weak or non-existent economy growth and lack of affinity for innovation.

By: Jurgen Thoelen

Jurgen Thoelen — Wed, 30 Jan 2013 05:25:41 +0000

I do not think we can deny that Europe is indeed behind and the 2 key points have been listed: fragmentation of the market which raises quite a few legal and other issues to be solved and indeed the absence of real strategic thinking how Cloud could make a company more competitive and agile. Especially on this last point the responsibility is as much on the side of the Cloud providers where we need to show this type of use cases to all levels of the company: IT but especially CFO, CMO, COO, Heads of Sales,… as it is especially these last functions which will drive uptake when they see a benefit.

By: Bruno Lima - ®

Bruno Lima - ® — Tue, 29 Jan 2013 23:31:31 +0000

I have noticed that here in Europe people are very conservative as the platform change or migration to a new technology. For me that came from Brazil to Europe, has been a major barrier to convince IT managers determined that Open Source technologies in general are mature, reliable and secure.
I also believe that the lack of skilled labor in new technologies is also a factor that may contribute to this curve in Europe since the financial crisis, the level of investment in training in the company was reduced drastically.

By: Gabriele Bozzi

Gabriele Bozzi — Tue, 29 Jan 2013 19:32:30 +0000

Europe is not behind the curve, not by choice at least.
The view of Chris Kemp doesn’t take in account that Europe is not an unique context when it comes to Information Management. Few over the pond understand the fragmentation and governance diversity across the national boundaries within the EU.
I agree with Simon Wardley, there is no competitive spin to cloud adoption because Europe does not encourages market competition by design.