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    Home»Sections»Cloud computing»Europeans plan to build continental cloud to take on US giants

    Europeans plan to build continental cloud to take on US giants

    Cloud computing By Agency Staff4 June 2020
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    France and Germany threw their weight on Thursday behind plans to create a cloud computing ecosystem that seeks to reduce Europe’s dependence on Silicon Valley giants Amazon, Microsoft and Google.

    The project, dubbed Gaia-X, will establish common standards for storing and processing data on servers that are sited locally and comply with the European Union’s strict laws on data privacy.

    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.

    We are not China, we are not the US, we are European countries with our own values and with our own economic interest that we want to defend

    “We are not China, we are not the US, we are European countries with our own values and with our own economic interest that we want to defend,” his French counterpart Bruno Le Maire said in Paris in a joint video news conference.

    The initiative comes as France and Germany step up economic cooperation to offset the impact of the coronavirus pandemic. Both have backed an EU-wide recovery plan while Berlin has just announced a major fiscal stimulus.

    In an initial step, 22 French and German companies will set up a non-profit foundation to run Gaia-X, which is not conceived as a direct rival to the “hyperscale” US cloud providers but would instead referee a common set of European rules.

    ‘Reversibility’

    “Building a European-based alternative is possible only if we play collectively,” said Michel Paulin, CEO of independent French cloud service provider OVHcloud.

    One important concept underpinning Gaia-X is “reversibility”, a principle that would allow users to easily switch providers. First services are due to be offered in 2021.

    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 US$228-billion this year. “The leading cloud providers have already moved quickly to build up this market,” said Gartner analyst Rene Buest.  — Reported by Nadine Schimroszik and Mathieu Rosemain, (c) 2020 Reuters

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