"Even before Azure had a global failure this week, Austria's Ministry of Economy had taken a decisive step toward digital sovereignty. The Ministry achieved this status by migrating 1,200 employees to a Nextcloud-based cloud and collaboration platform hosted on Austrian-based infrastructure. This shift away from proprietary, foreign-owned cloud services, such as Microsoft 365, to an open-source, European-based cloud service aligns with a growing trend among European governments and agencies. They want control over sensitive data and to declare their independence from US-based tech providers."
"What's the motive behind these moves away from proprietary tech? Well, in Austria's case, Florian Zinnagl, CISO of the Ministry of Economy, Energy, and Tourism (BMWET), explained, "We carry responsibility for a large amount of sensitive data -- from employees, companies, and citizens. As a public institution, we take this responsibility very seriously. That's why we view it critically to rely on cloud solutions from non-European corporations for processing this information.""
Austrian Ministry of Economy migrated 1,200 employees to a Nextcloud-based cloud and collaboration platform hosted on Austrian infrastructure, achieving greater digital sovereignty. The move replaces proprietary, foreign-owned cloud services like Microsoft 365 with an open-source, European-based cloud to maintain control over sensitive employee, company, and citizen data. European governments and agencies are increasingly shifting away from US-based tech providers for similar reasons, with regions such as Schleswig-Holstein adopting open-source alternatives to Exchange and Outlook. European companies have formed the EuroStack Initiative, a non-profit aiming to promote buying, selling, and funding European technology to support the transition away from Big Tech.
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