Uk Cloud Company Flexiant helps power the New Pan European Cloud

Pan European standards like GSM have later become standards around the world and help greatly boost European technology companies.

Now the European Commission is formulating plans for a pan-european grid standard that will provide on-demand computing to those that need scale and computing power, but don't necessarily want or need to have it in-house.

The EC is accepting proposal by a consortium of industrial partners including software and services companies. This has attracted interest from the UK-based Flexiant.

The EUR 3M R&D programme, CumuloNimbo, will set the ground work for the next generation of pan-european cloud computing.