Europe

Cloud | Oct 25, 2023

AWS promises European sovereign cloud – doesn’t say when, skimps on details

Announcement leaves AWS lagging Azure and OCI - with Oracle already running sovereign infrastructure in Frankfurt and Madrid with “no backbone network connection to other cloud regions”

| AI | Jun 21, 2023

Oracle's new "sovereign" European cloud region is Schrems II friendly; comes amid SaaS data pressure

"No backbone network connection to Oracle's other cloud regions” says the company, with Microsoft also promising an EU "data boundary"

Zoom | Jun 08, 2023

Zoom's new privacy tools offer European data sovereignty-lite

Zoom Europe data storage privacy settings

Careful now, read the small print: Account, diagnostic data will stay in the US and Zoom can't promise calls and recordings won't pass through data centres you opted out of...

Enterprise IT | Feb 08, 2022

EU Chips Act disappoints, with doubts over sources of €43 billion funding

Proposals only allocate €11bn in EU funds but open door to more state aid, as EU Chips Act aims to secure 20% of semiconductor production in the bloc by 2030.

Security | Jun 24, 2021

EU reveals plans for Joint Cyber Unit, Rapid Reaction teams - very, very slowly.

European Joint Cyber Unit: thought up in 2017, coming in... 2023.

Cloud | May 06, 2021

Europe laments puny cloud presence, to crack down on foreign subsidies, boost indigenous chip capabilities.

Edge computing is place where EU could play strongly, report claims.

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