A broad coalition drawn from across the ranks of Europe’s tech industry is calling for “radical action” from European Union lawmakers to shrink reliance on foreign-owned digital infrastructure and services to bolster the bloc’s economic prospects, resilience, and security in increasingly fraught geopolitical times.
Discussing why he’s backing the Euro Stack proposal, Johan Christenson, founder of European cloud provider Cleura (formerly City Network) — and now head of technology at the Swedish cloud provider Iver (another signatory), which acquired City Network in 2020 — tells TechCrunch: “The changes needed are so foundational I think Europe needs a new Airbus-like project around digital to stand a chance.“While protectionism is growing in various places — I think Europe needs to think different.
Karlitschek also lauds efforts to agree standards that make it easier to move work loads from one cloud provider to another.“One example is the recently launched open cloud industry standard API specification SECA which allows to deploy and run workloads seamlessly across different cloud environments,” he notes.“This enables the many European service providers to collectively form a network with greater scalability and continuity than each can provide individually.“Similarly, smaller vendors can and should be encouraged to pool resources together into joint offerings, giving the public sector and large businesses more certainty in terms of continuity.
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