ALASCA FOCIS
FOCIS - Free and Open Cloud Initiative Saxony
This measure is co-financed with tax revenue on the basis of the budget approved by the Saxon state parliament.
Why?
The cloud market is currently dominated by a few large companies outside Europe (hyperscalers). The associated dependence of European cloud users on foreign providers leads to Security concerns, compliance challenges and lack of data sovereignty.
While small and medium-sized enterprises (SMEs) in Europe can, in principle, address these problems and also focus on Dedicated services specialise, they cannot be compared with the wide range and the Reach The hyperscalers are unable to keep up with the competition and are therefore limited in their competitiveness.
As a result, we in Saxony and Europe are facing the challenge of Dependencies from non-European Countries and Cloud providers and to provide smaller cloud providers with specialised offers the path to competitiveness in the Cloud market enable.
Our strategy
With our project ALASCA FOCIS we are making a significant contribution to changing the current situation by using Open source technologies in combination with the SCS cloud standards a solid foundation for real Interoperability and Portability between different cloud providers.
Small and medium-sized cloud providers are generally unable to cope with the variety and scope of services and offerings. non-European hyperscaler compete with each other. This is why they specialise in certain services. This makes it all the more important for cloud customers to be able to choose the services that best suit their needs. Needs suitable services from different providers to obtain.
It should also be possible to migrate the infrastructure to another cloud provider at any time. This The challenges We overcome these challenges by using open source technologies and integrating open cloud standards. This is how we want to support companies and organisations, open and Transparent cloud infrastructures build up.
Our contribution
- Open source technology: With FOCIS, we are continuously working on the further development and optimisation of our operational ALASCA projects.
- SCS cloud standards: We participate in the project Sovereign Cloud Stack. This is how we develop open cloud standards in a targeted manner with the involvement of relevant stakeholders.
- Piloting of the ALASCA technology stack: We are testing and improving our technology stack with the involvement of Saxon cloud providers, cloud users and public institutions.
- Documentation: We attach great importance to user-friendly documentation for the development, installation and operation of the software. In this way, we aim to facilitate the use of and collaboration on ALASCA projects and standards.
- Networking and knowledge exchange: We plan to promote the exchange of knowledge with the ALASCA community and other players in the European open source landscape in order to create synergies and increase the visibility of open technologies.
With the funding received from the Saxon State Ministry of Economic Affairs, Labour and Transport (SMWA), provided by the SAB, we plan to drive forward the further development, piloting and dissemination of open source software and standards for cloud services within the Saxon ecosystem.
"Without the open source community, many of the things we use every day in our dealings with computers or the internet would not exist. The development of open source standards and solutions strengthens the independence of our citizens and our economy and helps our companies to ensure secure and reliable access to their data and to be able to utilise new technologies. This is why the Free State of Saxony is supporting the economy and the open source community with funding for further development."
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Project team
Project management FOCIS
Dr Matthias Büchse
Communication and documentation specialist
Helena Ott
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Full-time software developer for cloud software development project
As a software developer, you are responsible for carrying out the technical work in the project, particularly the development of ALASCA's open-source projects, the SCS standards, as well as the piloting and validation activities.
