Very vulnerable

Richard Speed writes in »OpenStack community finds new strength in resilience« for theregister.com “Europe has a very strong dependency on US hyperscale providers, services… and they realize now that that dependency is potentially going to be leveraged against them, and so they want more local capacity.” “We spent a decade telling developers to ignore infrastructure because ’those hyperscalers are going to solve that for us,’ and now we realize that makes us very vulnerable to a lot of non-desirable outcomes.” ...

November 1, 2025 · 1 min · 97 words

Own digital sovereignty

The European Commission wants to gradually shift its cloud services from Microsoft Azure to European providers like OVH Cloud to bolster its digital sovereignty. Details are in the article, unfortunately behind a paywall. Commission eyes ditching Microsoft Azure for France’s OVHcloud over digital sovereignty fears The text was automatically translated from German into English. The German quotations were also translated in sense. ...

June 19, 2025 · 1 min · 62 words