The hopes of companies, at least those I have dealt with, are not particularly high in this respect. There is still a great deal of skepticism about a legally secure agreement with the US. Has this announcement now taken the last wind out of the sails of the Gaia-X initiative? Privacy Shield and the Cloud Act should no longer affect the international data economy. Cloud Act and Privacy Shield remain problematic for EuropeansĮU Commission President Ursula von der Leyen and US President Joe Biden recently announced their intention to tackle the cloud security issue together. But we now need a significant acceleration in terms of infrastructure that can be used by everyone. I’ll give the project credit for that, and I think it’s a really good idea. Of course, one can say that such an ecosystem, especially if it is to be open source, must first establish itself. No one will say “Ah, Gaia-X solves my data protection problem in a very concrete way” today. To date, there is nothing for enterprises to build on, such as a Platform as a Service. The project started in 2019, and the central idea that everyone should be allowed to play a part, including the hyperscalers themselves, was a problem from the very beginning. security agencies.Ī lot of time has been wasted with Gaia-X. Nothing has changed in terms of the fundamental problem: As a company, can I work with the US hyperscalers in a GDPR-compliant way or not? Or do I have a problem because of the Cloud Act, which grants all sorts of access rights to U.S. If I as an enterprise were to pursue a cloud-first or even cloud-only strategy, Gaia-X is not a usable concept for me today.Įnterprises basically have no choice but to go to the hyperscalers if they are looking for a cloud-based AI solution, for example. There are a few smaller pilots, but they are very pointed and only useful for very specific use cases.
Pfirsching: That’s the point: The participants in this project have still not found much that goes beyond a theoretical concept. The question is: Is this a cleansing tide that will lead to improved control and implementation? Or is it the beginning of the end?īut it is not exactly enjoyable for anyone to still have nothing tangible in their hands after such a long time… Confidence in the Gaia-X initiative is waning. The fact that important members are slowly withdrawing and that the funding is not flowing as originally planned is not a good sign. Pfirsching: I see a great danger, at least, that it will never get off the ground. It never really got to the point where companies would say: I see value in this.ĭoes that mean that Gaia-X is already dead? Gaia-X never got out of this theoretical sinkhole. This is still a long way from clear, tangible use cases. There is still an attempt to find common rules and standards. Today, it is a loose association that, in my view, operates too much at the meta level. As more and more members, large and small, joined the ecosystem, the goals became increasingly blurred. Pfirsching: Gaia-X has pursued the goal of creating a common basis or a common set of rules for legally compliant data use in the cloud. Volker Pfirsching: At the very least, Gaia-X is one of those projects that started with a good idea but then failed to reach critical mass or really take off. Is it possible that it will join one of the many European IT initiatives that ultimately come to nothing? In this interview, he explains that while key members are pulling out, and that funding isn’t flowing as planned, this may not be the end of GAIA-X yet, but just a cleansing effect.Ĭomputerwoche: The European cloud project Gaia-X - the representatives of which prefer to call it a secure European data infrastructure - has been quiet. Little, where he also heads the company’s global Digital Competence Center. Pfirsching is a partner and member of the Central European management board at management consultancy Arthur D. Too many of the participants in the European cloud project Gaia-X are pursuing their own interests and diluting the concept, Volker Pfirsching told CIO.com’s sister publication Computerwoche in a recent interview.
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