Developers: | Gaix-X Foundation |
Date of the premiere of the system: | 2019 |
Branches: | Government and social institutions |
Technology: | IaaS is Infrastructure as service |
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2020
Siemens, SAP and BMW create the platform for data exchange in automotive industry on the basis of Gaia-X
At the beginning of December, 2020 it became known of creation by the companies Siemens, SAP and BMW platforms for data exchange in automotive industry. The Data-Sharing Platform project the German producers decided to reduce dependence on American and Chinese cloud computing. In more detail here.
Project of creation Gaia-X
Ministers of Economics of France Bruno Le Maire and Germany Peter Altmaier told in the summer of 2020 about the project on development and creation of the European cloud platform for the competition to foreign. The platform which received preliminary name Gaia-X is aimed at decrease in dependence of Europeans on the American clouds.
Plans for creation of such system became known in 2019, however at that time in this question there was no reality. Now Gaia-X will have a developer in the form of the non-profit organization created especially for these purposes which part especially European companies will be.
Participants of the organization which name does not reveal yet, but them there will be, at least, more than 100. Among them there will be such companies and telecom operators as Bosch, Siemens, Dassault Systemes, SAP, and Orange together with Deutsche Telekom. So far only the German and French companies are stated, but it is possible that the enterprises from other European states in the future will join them.
We not China and not the USA, we are the European countries with the values economic interests which we want to protect, – told the Minister of Economics of France.
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The platform developed by especially European companies, Gaia-X with high confidence figure, will not be. The French and German ministers allowed the probability of connection to work on it of the foreign companies.
According to Peter Altmeier to enclose the contribution in creation development the Gaia-X, foreign enterprises should comply a number of conditions. He meant "the European rules and standards" including in questions of transfer and compatibility of data by them.
Inviting other countries to join the project, Altmayer said that he of Gaia-X is an instrument of recovery of technology sovereignty of Europe. The domination of the American and Chinese projects among cloud services could be meant by it.
According to the results of the I quarter 2020, according to Statista.com, AWS – Amazon Web Services was the world leader among cloud platforms. It holds 32% of global market
The Microsoft company with the cloud solutions of Azure and a 18-protsetny share, and on the third – Google (8%) is in the second place. Revenue of AWS for all 2019 exceeded $35 billion.
SoftPedia provides a few other statistics. according to it, leadership in the field of Infrastructure as a Service (IaaS) too is held by the American companies. Amazon occupies 47.8%, Microsoft – 15.5%, Google – 4%, IBM – 1.8%. The share of the Chinese holding Alibaba in this area makes 7.7%.
The European ministers said in the statement only about the Chinese and American clouds. They did not mention the Russian services[1].