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Poll of 1,000 senior techies: Euro execs mull use of US clouds
Amid the economic uncertainty of Trump 2.0, dependence on American tech has become a growing concern for many businesses, and a survey of 1,000 IT leaders claims that data sovereignty is now one of the most pressing issues. This comes from research carried out by Civo, a UK-based cloud operator which undoubtedly has skin in …
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Wednesday 28th May 2025 19:28 GMT Andy Non
"how they blindly walked into this situation"
Maybe it was associated with assuming the US is a valued friend of Western countries and a faithful and trusted ally with a lot of shared values. In light of recent events in the US that 80 year old image has been shaken if not shattered. Trust is hard to earn but easy to destroy.
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Wednesday 28th May 2025 20:30 GMT Kevin Johnston
Not that astonishing when you consider the increasing reliance on companies like Microsoft and the perverse fad to maximise reliance on a single supplier such as the previously mentioned Microsoft. This despite all the warning signs from previous disasters when companies relied on people like IBM/Oracle to host all their data and discover they were trapped with rising bills.
There is a belief in the C-Suite that they would never fall for such sneaky lock-ins while walking into bloody obvious lock-ins 'because they are much cheaper'.
Very few large companies who have outsourced their IT to 3rd parties and then 'to the cloud' are really saving money over keeping it in-house with their own teams managing the servers/datacentres but they have managed to shuffle the budgets around to hide that fact along with the costs of testing new solutions.
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Monday 2nd June 2025 08:29 GMT ffeog
Gaps in cloud abstraction drive lock-in and way out
Much of the lock-in comes from using vendor-specific APIs and products, if a sufficiently broad "pareto optimal" set of baseline APIs could be defined, then e.g. euro providers could implement them, and euro companies could gradually write their US vendor-specific calls to vendor-neutral. Sure, S3 is quite widely supported for object storage, k8s is heavy but if its the right choice for your container workload it also provides a good degree of vendor-neutrality. What's missing is some abtractions that are broad and capable for: e.g network SDN, PaaSy containers, FaaS/serverless (serverless js framework doesn't quite fit there), unified IAM, FS, AI, VMs although they've had good cross platform tooling for a long time. Then make it all available simply through Terraform, and let geopolitics provide the push as its already doing.
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Saturday 7th June 2025 21:02 GMT fg_swe
Just DO IT
+ Fujitsu SPARC+ARM servers
+ SuSe OS
+ Ubuntu OS
+ MaxDB
+ SAP
+ Hetzner Cloud
+ Ionos Cloud
+ OVH Cloud
+ CompCert Compiler
+ Qt GUI
+ NextCloud
+ LibreOffice
+ RPI
Start small, grow incrementally larger. Stock market will provide the financing.
Have some Cojones and ignore the Hamburger Siren Songs.