Sovereign Cloud Stack
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Sovereign Cloud Stack (SCS) is an open source alternative to propietary cloud technology, e.g. the large American vendors ("hyperscalers" such as Google Cloud, Amazon AWS oder Microsoft Azure). With a completely free software stack for a federated cloud and container infrastructure, SCS is building an ecosystem of networked providers. Developers and users thus get verifiable and compatible services, freedom of choice, full control and transparency on a scalable platform without vendor lock-in.
The project was initiated in November 2009 by Peter Ganten, Rafael Laguna de la Vera, Oliver Mauss and Kurt Garloff[1][2] and received funding by the German federal agency for disruptive innovation (SPRIND) to evaluate the idea first.[3] Since July 2021 it receives 14.9M€ public funding from the German Federal Ministry of economic affairs and energy (BMWi).[4][5][6] Recipient of the funding is the Open Source Business Alliance (OSB Alliance[7]), which is building up a team which coordinates the standardization, software integration and the creation of a network, but also a test, demo and development platform. Beyond the work of the team and the collaboration with upstream communities and SCS users (providers), development work is also awarded via tenders.[8]
Architecture[edit]
Sovereign Cloud Stack is supposed to "serve as technical underpinning for Gaia-X, with the goal of a sovereign, trustworthy, secure, data protecting and compliant cloud for Europe".[9] It also targets providers from the public sector to provide an alternative to the Microsoft-based Federal Cloud.[10] SCS combines, implements and standardizes numerous Open-Source-Projects from the enterprise cloud sector, also those that are employed and further developed by the hyperscalers. The SCS Project coordinates standardization, reference implementation, certification and a growing community of open source developers and companies.
Availability[edit]
"First providers have already implemented Gaia-X compatible offerings based on Sovereign Cloud Stack (SCS)."[11] The Cologned-based service provider plusserver is offering an SCS product: "As the only German company PlusServer is offering an SCS implementation with OpenStack",[12][13] OpenStack-training providers such as B1 Systems[14] are offering SCS training.[15]
References[edit]
- ↑ Linux-Magazin Online, 2021-07-13 (2021-07-13). "OSB Alliance entwickelt Cloud Stack für GAIA-X". Linux-Magazin (in Deutsch). Retrieved 2021-08-06.
- ↑ Oliver Voss. "Auf der Suche nach Daniela Düsentrieb" (in Deutsch). Retrieved 2021-08-06.
- ↑ Federal agency for disruptive innovation. "European supercloud IT infrastructure for the 3rd millennium". Retrieved 2021-07-19.
- ↑ Press release from the SCS Project (2021-07-13). "OSB Alliance develops Sovereign Cloud Stack (SCS) for the Gaia-X project". Retrieved 2021-07-19.
- ↑ Sueddeutsche Zeitung, Helmut Martin-Jung. "Cloud: Europa will unabhängig von Amazon, Google und Co. werden" (in Deutsch). Retrieved 2021-08-06.
- ↑ Oliver Voß (2021-05-19). "Gaia-X: Wo die Entwicklung des Projekts steht" (PDF). Tagesspiegel Background PDF auf SCS-Webseite (in Deutsch). Tagesspiegel Background. Retrieved 2021-08-06.
- ↑ "OSB Alliance entwickelt Sovereign Cloud Stack (SCS) für das GAIA-X Projekt" (in Deutsch). OSB Alliance. Retrieved 2021-08-06.
- ↑ SCS Projekt. "Public tenders". Retrieved 2021-08-10.
- ↑ Heise Online News vom 13.7.2021. "Europäische Cloud: Startschuss für den technischen Unterbau von Gaia-X" (in Deutsch). Retrieved 2021-08-06.
- ↑ Linux-Magazin 08/21. "Open Source im öffentlichen Sektor". Linux-Magazin (in Deutsch). Retrieved 2021-08-06.
- ↑ Heise Online News 2021-04-06. "EU-Cloud Gaia-X: Marktplatz für eine neue Datenökonomie" (in Deutsch). Retrieved 2021-08-06.
- ↑ Heise Online News vom 2020-12-08. ""Pluscloud Open" von Plusserver ist kompatibel mit Gaia-X" (in Deutsch). Retrieved 2021-08-06.
- ↑ Heise iX 04/21. "Cloud-Plattform: Erster Sovereign Cloud Stack für GAIA-X im Test" (in Deutsch). Retrieved 2021-08-06.
- ↑ B1 Systems GmbH. "b1-systems.de". Retrieved 2021-08-06.
- ↑ SCS Trainings from qSkills. "qSkills trainings". Retrieved 2021-08-06.
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