

There is also a team of students in France working on this topic, more from a technological angle this might provide additional opportunities to network and learn from each other. Data sovereignty and control – which is the focus of Gaia-X: focus on products and certifications.Also the topic around Open Source for Gaia-X, which should solve that – but are there now commercial products around it and can we trust those products (like Linux open source but Red Hat Linux may add products around it which are not). Technological sovereignty – can we use technology that has a level of control that fits security (e.g.

Jurisdiction/territorial sovereignty – to create a model against a specific country or region, so that data is controlled/managed.There are a lot of publications in this domain, including on websites and analyst reports, and announced collaborations like the one between Google and Thales.Ītos is defining its proposition and market positioning in this theme around 3 corner stones: In Europe there is an initiative called Gaia-X, which targets to build a European Cloud. As cloud services are adopted more, public institutions and companies are more concerned about the dependency they have on foreign parties for the delivery of those services.Īn illustrative example is the banning of Huawei in the 5G network rollout, as they are suspected to build backdoors into their technology that would give them access to the data flowing across their networks. ‘Digital Sovereignty’, is a topic relevant in our cloud business, and it is about to what extent you are really in control of your data and cloud services.
