Austria's Ministry of Economy Has Migrated To a Nextcloud Platform In Shift Away From US Tech

Even before Azure had a global failure this week, Austria's Ministry of Economy had taken a decisive step toward digital sovereignty. The Ministry achieved this status by migrating 1,200 employees to a Nextcloud-based cloud and collaboration platform hosted on Austrian-based infrastructure. This shift away from proprietary, foreign-owned cloud services, such as Microsoft 365, to an open-source, European-based cloud service aligns with a growing trend among European governments and agencies. They want control over sensitive data and to declare their independence from US-based tech providers.

This makes sense. DF wrote about a similar move for ICJ. Europe does need to build these capabilities though. There is so much entrenchment though. And so much money on the table for MSFT and others to not do anything.

SAP To Invest Over 20 Billion Euros In 'Sovereign Cloud' - Slashdot

SAP will invest over 20 billion euros ($23 billion) in European sovereign cloud infrastructure over the next decade.

I’ve been hearing a lot about these initiatives. TCS launched a sovereign cloud for India.

These moves makes sense. 202509020959 Data is the raw material for the AI Age so it makes sense countries want to control that. And US maybe on the way to become Russia, so makes sense that the Europeans are worried.