Dutch government secures deal with European cloud platform STACKIT - Digital Government
STACKIT is a European platform that Dutch government organisations can use under pre-agreed conditions, boosting digital autonomy.
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Stackit and LIDL are both part of Schwarz Group, which is a private company owned by Dieter Schwarz. He is the wealthiest person in Germany right now.
Power transfer from royalty to nobility it sounds like. How is union memeber treatment in his companies at least?
As long as he fully complies with the GDPR, I'm not against his product.
Is it time for EU to say, if US cloud providers can't cancel out the cloud-act and therefore isn't gdpr compliant, then they are an illigal entity in Europe? And they can take their social media and all other tech with them .
It's already happening. Plenty of companies and public services are moving away from US cloud providers, dragging their suppliers with them. My company is moving to a EU cloud provider too, because our SaaS clients make us. They won't renew multi-year contracts if we don't move with them.
Not enough though. My companys cloud plan is to roll out 100% in aws. It's so freaking stupid. All the floor guys have said: "you are sure?" We are going to be 100% depended on aws only. Not just 50% or 80%, 100%. It's so dumb I can't fathom it for a sec. I where at a conference in Geneva, where the talks were a lot about US tech and how we get survreignity bacn, etc. When I told people about our plan (I'm from Denmark btw) they all said: "You know it is you guys they wanna go to war with right??"
Time to move companies? I don't know what sector you are in, but in my sector it won't be long until AWS means you're excluded from procurement.