Vendor to speak unto vendor with first results expected in 2027

cross-posted from: https://lemmy.cafe/post/1679861

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I do wish EC pulls this off. It would great having an actual home-grown competitor to cloud providers. EU does data protection better than anyone else, this would very much be a symbiotic relationship.

  • tal@lemmy.todayEnglish
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    11 months ago

    Well, it doesn’t say, but it sounded kinda similar to Gaia-X to me. If it is, that involved a lot of large companies that had been around for a long time, so I’d be inclined to guess not.

    https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Gaia-X

    The founding members on the German side[10] included:

    • Beckhoff Automation
    • BMW
    • Bosch
    • DE-CIX
    • Deutsche Telekom
    • German Edge Cloud
    • PlusServer
    • SAP
    • Siemens

    The Fraunhofer Gesellschaft, the International Data Spaces Association, and the European cloud provider association CISPE were co-founders of the Gaia-X Association.

    On the French side, founding members included:

    • Amadeus
    • Atos
    • Docaposte
    • Électricité de France (EDF)
    • Institut Mines-Télécom (IMT)
    • Orange
    • Outscale
    • OVHcloud
    • Safran
    • Scaleway

    At least some of the above Gaia-X member companies are listed in the article as also being part of this new cloud project:

    The research, development, and deployment phases are expected to run from 2023 to 2031, and 19 companies are involved, including SAP and Orange in the Cloud-Edge Capabilities workstream and Deutsche Telecom in the Cloud-Edge Continuum Infrastructure workstream.