Q: Does anyone know of any EU-based company out there advising large organisations how to detach from big tech?
-
Q: Does anyone know of any EU-based company out there advising large organisations how to detach from big tech?
I know a couple of people in large organisations where removing reliance on US software is suddenly the main talking point at board meetings, but without a professional organisation to point them in the right direction it'll never move past a conversation.
-
Q: Does anyone know of any EU-based company out there advising large organisations how to detach from big tech?
I know a couple of people in large organisations where removing reliance on US software is suddenly the main talking point at board meetings, but without a professional organisation to point them in the right direction it'll never move past a conversation.
@ephemeral i think groups like @autonomic have significant experience in that regard although it is maybe not the large advocacy company you are wondering about
-
@ephemeral i think groups like @autonomic have significant experience in that regard although it is maybe not the large advocacy company you are wondering about
Thanks! I'm not even sure such a large advocacy company exists (hello @autonomic ), but I know from years of experience that if you come to the door of a public body or a university, you need to be trustworthy to their way of working.
I was working in a university and present for the meetings when Microsoft pushed out Google and became the main campus technology. They talked a good talk.
I think these large bodies are a little bit lost right now and would gladly welcome guidance.
-
Thanks! I'm not even sure such a large advocacy company exists (hello @autonomic ), but I know from years of experience that if you come to the door of a public body or a university, you need to be trustworthy to their way of working.
I was working in a university and present for the meetings when Microsoft pushed out Google and became the main campus technology. They talked a good talk.
I think these large bodies are a little bit lost right now and would gladly welcome guidance.
@ephemeral @cblgh you may know about it already, but this reminds me of @JulianOliver's Cloudbreak course in NZ, who may have contacts to similar efforts based in the EU?
-
Q: Does anyone know of any EU-based company out there advising large organisations how to detach from big tech?
I know a couple of people in large organisations where removing reliance on US software is suddenly the main talking point at board meetings, but without a professional organisation to point them in the right direction it'll never move past a conversation.
It depends on the kind of detachment you're looking for. We do custom software and cloud-agnostic migrations (so hosting of cloud software, not standard software like Office 365 but we do offer/suggest alternatives for some software, e.g., self-hosted Gitlab instead of Github).
We have been looking at the European market and migrated our own stuff away from US providers to European #Scaleway. We're advising our customers (mid-large Dutch companies) on similar migrations, and have the past decade advocated for using standards-based cloud services to facilitate switching (e.g., using Kubernetes over ACS or ECS and plain Postgres over Aurora). -
It depends on the kind of detachment you're looking for. We do custom software and cloud-agnostic migrations (so hosting of cloud software, not standard software like Office 365 but we do offer/suggest alternatives for some software, e.g., self-hosted Gitlab instead of Github).
We have been looking at the European market and migrated our own stuff away from US providers to European #Scaleway. We're advising our customers (mid-large Dutch companies) on similar migrations, and have the past decade advocated for using standards-based cloud services to facilitate switching (e.g., using Kubernetes over ACS or ECS and plain Postgres over Aurora).@michael I should be clear: I'm not looking. Last week, I spoke to two people. One a prominent staff member in a university, the other the director of a large arts organisation. Both keenly asked me to suggest open source alternatives to Google/Microsoft.
I could give them information, but I know how procurement works in large orgs. What they need is a consultancy that can offer a package as an alternative to existing services.
It sounds like you may do some of this. What is your company?
