| * Taking the Airbus to the IKEA Cloud. * However, you can still deliver services without US clouds * Massive outsourcing has made organizations somewhat helpless * Don’t say ‘Europe Must Invest in XYZ’. * GAIA-X will not save us * The cloud is not just one thing. On many important levels, Europe can deliver * However, we should be clear on what we don’t have here * When “going to the cloud”, do be clear how deeply dependent you want to become * IT systems are already brittle. Getting your cloud from another continent is then not helpful * It is not the case that only the hyperest of hyperscalers can compete * You can’t run a government without privacy & if you need US permission to function at all * The EU-US privacy framework is near-death and you can’t rely on it anymore * Open source will be part of the solution, but much more is needed * We have amazing open (source) technology, but it needs to up its game * European Governments are already overly deep into US clouds * Trump 2.0 will exploit our total dependency on US services * European governments will need to do industrial policy to get us out of this mess * Is this a sovereign cloud? |