Gaix-X Foundation

History

2020: Creation of the company

At the beginning of June, 2020 France and Germany started implementation of cloud project Gaix-X to press the American and Chinese companies in this market and to resolve the potential conflicts between the legislation of the EU and the USA on confidentiality of data.

For the first time the project was submitted at a conference in Germany in the fall of 2019. Within the project at the beginning of June, 2020 the Gaix-X Foundation non-profit organization which will provide respect for target characteristics of the project was created: sovereignty, availability, compatibility, portability and data transparency. Five documents explaining a project objective and technical design are also published.

Europe created the cloud company to force out Amazon and Microsoft

The American public cloud companies, such as Amazon Web Services, Microsoft and Google, can submit the application for accession to Gaix-X, but they will have to adhere to the announced principles. Microsoft already supported the project.

We strongly intend to try to obtain long-term success of Gaix-X as important platform for creation of digital values and strengthening of business models on the basis of data in Europe, said in the statement of Microsoft.

Charter members of Gaix-X are 22 companies from the different industries: Amadeus Atos Beckhoff Bosch BMW DE-CIX Deutsche Telekom, Docaposte, EDF, Fraunhofer, German Edge Cloud, Institut Mines Telecom, International Data Spaces Association Orange, 3DS Outscale, OVHcloud, PlusServer, Safran SAP, Scaleway and Siemens.

The companies intend to spend $1.7 million a year for maintenance of work Gaix-X Foundation. So far charter members do not expect what Gaix-X will be able to create the serious competition to such companies as Amazon and Microsoft, but express hope for creation of independent cloud business in Europe.^[1]

Commercial start of cloud project Gaix-X is planned for 2021.

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