SUSE Launching Region-Locked Support For the Sovereignty-Conscious (theregister.com) 6
SUSE has unveiled a new support package aimed at customers concerned about data sovereignty. From a report: Called "SUSE Sovereign Premium Support," the service geo-pins support to a given region rather than adopting the traditional follow-the-sun model, where support comes from whatever region is online. The latter approach could break sovereignty regulations or policies, as it might involve transferring data out of a region. Ensuring that support is available from a specific region is therefore crucial, particularly for European customers.
SUSE CEO Dirk-Peter van Leeuwen told The Register: "Digital sovereignty has become a really hot topic in the last half year, and specifically in Europe, where companies feel an increasing need to get things done in-house, in-country, or in-region within Europe, with less dependency on non-European vendors and supply chains and people."
SUSE CEO Dirk-Peter van Leeuwen told The Register: "Digital sovereignty has become a really hot topic in the last half year, and specifically in Europe, where companies feel an increasing need to get things done in-house, in-country, or in-region within Europe, with less dependency on non-European vendors and supply chains and people."
The breakdown of the "world wide" web continues (Score:1)
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This is mostly about Donald and his tendency to unilaterally break conventions. Europeans are worried about backdoors mandated by His Highness on a whim, although that is also a problem with the British and the French.
Suse still exists? (Score:2)
What happened? Necromancy? I haven't heard of it in like 20 years.
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It still is a big player in the enterprise. People have been annoyed at Red Hat, and SuSE also checks all the boxes for a number of big players.
Overall, I think data sovereignty is a good thing overall, geopolitics aside. Decentralization is a critical thing, just because it ensures one bottleneck doesn't implode everyone.
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Wait until you find out about Slackware.
Perfromative Rubbish (Score:2)
While I realize that I'm in a bit of an echo chamber here on Slashdot, with news of EU switching to Linux and anti-American data sovereignty being significantly over represented.
But, all this talk is still performative rubbish. The bulk of the EU is not going to regress technologically by switching off Microsoft and using only EU products or EU services. It's just not going to happen.
As for this SUSE announcement. This is just performative nonsense, like the LGBTQ and green washing corporations have pulled