Some comments on the OVH T-Systems deal

SCS is a collaboration of many companies from the industrial and ICT sector as well as public institutions in a GAIA-X working package, tackling the standardization and implementation of a common stack for a cloud- and container platform, providing an option for a sovereign underpinning for higher-level services in the GAIA-X project. It’s relevant for our success that we are using jointly defined standards to overcome the currect fragmentation in the market (outside of hyperscalers) and create a well-established platform that allows customers and developers to freely combine service providers and also exchange them should the need arise.

Two of our SCS partners, OVH and T-Systems, announced yesterday that they will collaborate closely even beyond the joint work in SCS and GAIA-X and the collaboration will cover hardware, data centers, operations and the software stack.

I have been asked how that interacts with SCS and I have reached out to both partners to ensure there is no change in course how they work with us. And there is not.

I really congratulate OVH and T-Systems on this deal! It’s great to see them collaborate even beyond the scope of GAIA-X. It will help those two large providers to gain speed in implementing SCS and in establishing a truly open alternative in the market.

About the author

Kurt Garloff

CTO Sovereign Cloud Stack @ Open Source Business Alliance

While working on Physics as student and researcher in Dortmund, Wuppertal and Eindhoven, Kurt started to work with and on Linux, with first patches to the SCSI layer in the mid 90s. He has spent his post-university life in Open Source, as kernel engineer, leader of SUSE Labs (kernel, compiler, X11, security), and engineering and business leadership at SUSE. Since 2011 he has been working on Open Source cloud software, at Deutsche Telekom, as Freelancer, at T-Systems (as chief architect for the OTC) and also has been serving on the Open Infra Foundation's board. Since 2019 he has been pushing the Sovereign Cloud Stack idea which resulted in a publically funded project that he now technically leads. He still loves to occasionally write code (mostly python these days) or at least test out code from the colleagues and project. He spends his free time with his family or with running and playing table tennis.

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