Europe Working On ‘Gaia-X’ Cloud Platform To Reduce Dependency On US

guest · Jun 5, 2020

Europe Working On ‘Gaia-X’ Cloud Platform To Reduce Dependency On US
It will also compete in the cloud market globally
June 4, 2020
https://fossbytes.com/europe-gaia-x-cloud-platform-reduce-dependency-on-us/

A new European cloud computing platform ‘Gaia-X’ is under development. A group of 22 German and French companies is looking forward to setting up a legal entity in the coming weeks that would help Europe get rid of its dependency on US companies for cloud services.

According to Reuters, the entity managing Gaia-X platform will be registered as a non-profit firm under Belgian law. Both the German and French Economy Ministers would soon brief the media on the progress of the new initiative.
The targeted timeline for the launch of Europe’s Gaia-X cloud computing platform is early 2021.

If all goes well, Gaia-X might even end up competing with services like Google Cloud Platform, Amazon Web Services, Microsoft Azure, Alibaba, and IBM — companies that currently dominate the cloud computing and data hosting service domain.
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The topic of sovereignty and security has been brought up time and again in both Germany and France as their data is hosted remotely on the cloud servers owned by Silicon Valley giants.
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