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| Europe wants to break Google and Amazon's dominance in cloud computing |
According to an email from a spokesman for the Federal Ministry of Economy, Europe plans to question the benefits of cloud computing in the United States and China in the so-called Gaia-X. This is the European Union, Germany and France with SABB, Deutsche Telekom, Deutsche Bank and Siemens and a joint venture of hundreds of companies and institutions like Bosch. And energy.
The value of the IAAS infrastructure as a service market (48% of which is Amazon) was $ 42.8 billion. Five companies dominate this market, including four American companies: IBM, Microsoft, Google, Amazon and a Chinese company called Alibaba.
These companies ’data centers provide a powerful drive for the Internet and host everything from small startups to large ones like Netflix, Spotify and AirBnb. European cloud guides will be available at the end of this year.
The press release states that the project targets industrial group users as well as small and medium-sized companies and startups, and aims to meet their actual needs and achieve more benefits for them, and there are many medical and financial fields. , Public administration, scholars and academics, etc. Several examples of possible use cases for departments and industries.
Harald Sama Harald Sama, CEO of DE-CIX Group AG, said the driving force behind the project is data sovereignty or data management, which is an attempt to further improve data storage. X.
The project is a direct response to the dominance of American and Chinese service providers, the European Commission entered into a dispute with Google and was fined 4.34 billion euros in 2018 for violating antitrust laws.
In addition, U.S. cloud law requires U.S. companies to provide personal law enforcement information on request, even if the server that contains the information is not located abroad.
Currently, there is little detailed information about the project's appearance, but although it is currently a French-German project, it can easily be expanded to cover the entire European territory so that national data for European countries can be stored.
The project is in line with the efforts made by France and Germany to create a national coalition of like-minded countries with an adequate level of mutual confidence in storing and protecting data.
The Gaia-X project includes the current cloud infrastructure and new technologies, where the project is divided into two levels, the first level is the level of application in which users interact with their services, and the second level is an interconnected data center flexible and dynamic bandwidth configuration of the infrastructure layer from which the structure originates European virtual cloud infrastructure.
It should be noted that the European cloud is not a new idea and that many similar attempts have been made in the name of European databases, but all have failed. For example, France has invested more than $ 200 million in Nuergy and Cloudwatt.
Observers fear that European cloud projects will hinder innovation in this area, and that another problem will be the reaction of key cloud service providers, Microsoft believes, despite its interest in sharing, to define cross-border sovereignty at a regional level in the wrong cloud era.
As a Amazon spokesman said: The Franco-German plan lost many of the primary benefits of cloud computing and restricted freedom of choice, flexibility, and the ability to expand globally without increasing security.