Germany, France launch Gaia-X platform in bid for ‘tech sovereignty’
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Re: Germany, France launch Gaia-X platform in bid for ‘tech sovereignty’
#2Thats really the only thing the Europeans can put together these days...more policies :(
How about just getting your hands dirty and start building great stuff?
(Former european here)
Re: Germany, France launch Gaia-X platform in bid for ‘tech sovereignty’
#3I don’t see how a government bureaucracy can compete with Azure, AWS, and GCP.
Re: Germany, France launch Gaia-X platform in bid for ‘tech sovereignty’
#4I don’t see how a government bureaucracy can compete with Azure, AWS, and GCP.
Really? Typically the concern is that they can compete too well.
Re: Germany, France launch Gaia-X platform in bid for ‘tech sovereignty’
#5Interesting that Lidl only recently made news about moves into the cloud computing area.
Reading the article "German Economy Minister Peter Altmaier, speaking in Berlin, described Gaia-X as a “moonshot” that would help reassert Europe’s technological sovereignty, and invited other countries and companies to join." It's not clear if this is limited to European based countries and companies only and if not, kinda moots the statement a bit.
Be interesting how this progresses and competition is good and some standards would also work well. Though I do fear that the usual company suspects will pile into this pie just because they have a European satellite office, like Amazon, Google, Microsoft.....
I hope this is an EU wide initiative and not just another FraGer based one for many reasons.
So many questions and could just be a tool to bash the Tech giants into opening up more.
Further reading upon this: https://www.datacenterdynamics.com/en/news/legal-entity-gaia...
https://www.bmwi.de/Redaktion/EN/Publikationen/Digitale-Welt...
Re: Germany, France launch Gaia-X platform in bid for ‘tech sovereignty’
#6> That is already far too late, according to analysts at Gartner, who forecast that the global market for public cloud services will grow by 17% to $228 billion this year. “The leading cloud providers have already moved quickly to build up this market,” said Gartner analyst Rene Buest.
Person not poised to make exorbitant money off venture thinks venture a waste of time. Alternatively, person who might lose money if venture goes ahead thinks venture a waste of time.
Re: Germany, France launch Gaia-X platform in bid for ‘tech sovereignty’
#7I don’t see how a government bureaucracy can compete with Azure, AWS, and GCP.
The EU could build support for this 1000 different ways. They need only shake another GDPR-shaped stick that gently encourages business to buy local and the rest would be history. But they can't really do that yet, because there is no viable local market.
Look at Huawei to see how effective government bureaucracies can be when they decide to compete with efficient business.
Re: Germany, France launch Gaia-X platform in bid for ‘tech sovereignty’
#8I don’t see how a government bureaucracy can compete with Azure, AWS, and GCP.
There were similar pronouncements made fifteen years ago or so about making a European search engine.
Re: Germany, France launch Gaia-X platform in bid for ‘tech sovereignty’
#9>One important concept underpinning Gaia-X is “reversibility”, a principle that would allow users to easily switch providers.
Switching providers would imply some new tech or standard, no? A bit like docker is portable. Except for all parts of the cloud. So are they thinking a FAAS standard, a load balancer standard?
Bit confused about where they're going with this
Re: Germany, France launch Gaia-X platform in bid for ‘tech sovereignty’
#10this european cloud computing champion already exists: OVH. maybe policies should help him to grow