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• Independence from the cloud, M365 and co. - how to take the right steps now

  Dissolved governments, presidential elections, military conflicts. Somehow the world seems to be falling apart at the seams - even though it was already complicated five years ago, when the coronavirus crisis and the abolition of the EU-US Privacy Shield had just turned the world upside down. Almost everyone suddenly had to be able to work flexibly and remotely, while the legal basis for using US cloud providers and solutions collapsed before our eyes. What did the professionals do right - and what can we all learn for our own resilience?

  Cloud•Philipp Schneidenbach•24 Apr 2025•13 minutes

  

• GAIA-X: Digital Reality Context of the EU Cloud Project

  GAIA-X is a new attempt by European companies to create an independent, secure cloud - and thus a platform that combines independence and data protection with the leading-edge approaches of hyperscalers from America and Asia. Is this realistic in the context of many failed projects such as Deutschland Cloud, Digitaler Personalausweis and endless digitization projects in public administration? What can IT experts and business expect?

  Cloud•Philipp Schneidenbach•14 Apr 2021•8 minutes