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Survey: Companies Unprepared for New EU Data Rules
The clock is ticking on new data privacy regulations set to enter into force next year, prompting enterprise data management vendors to issue dire warnings about mandatory regulatory compliance ...Full Article
EU Launches Low-Power Chip Effort
The European Union is expanding its efforts to promote energy-efficient computing with funding for hardware research aimed at next-generation high-end processors. "The European Commission wants Europe to avail ...Full Article
Data Transfer Deal Already Under Fire
It didn't take long for dents to appear in the proposed E.U.-U.S. Privacy Shield. The trans-Atlantic data transfer agreement designed to replaced a 15-year-old Safe Harbor arrangement struck down ...Full Article
Update: E.U., U.S. Reach Tentative Data Transfer Deal
European regulators announced a framework agreement on Tuesday (Feb. 2) on trans-Atlantic data transfers that would require U.S. companies importing personal data from Europe to "commit to robust obligations on ...Full Article
Cloud Vendors Address EU Safe Harbor Ruling
Cloud vendors are responding to last month's data privacy ruling by a European court with security upgrades to cloud storage and orchestration services aimed at helping customers meet stricter ...Full Article
New Safe Harbor Worries Over Data Privacy Could Push Business to Cloud
October 6 was quite an interesting day for consumer privacy. After 15 years in place, the Safe Harbor agreement was declared invalid by Europe’s highest court, the Court of ...Full Article
Pan-European Datacenter Research Project Commences
The European Commission has awarded 1.7 million Euros (US$2.26 million) to a datacenter-focused R&D initiative. Full Article
