The Role of Open Source at the EU Technology Roadmap for a European Sovereign Cloud
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00:06
Okay, so thank you. Thank you very much for for attending the these talk and obviously thank you for the for the organizers of the of the dead room for accepting the Proposal so well, that's that's my name and coming from from open nebula systems
00:24
My idea today I'm coming here not as a competitor of open stack and come here to talk you about the the work We're doing the European level along with other European companies to align the
00:41
Geo Strategic interest of the of the European Union with what we are actually doing at the at the open source sector in in in Europe so That's that's my my email and you want to just follow up with with any any questions after the session today as I mentioned Apart from from being at the part of open nebula systems
01:04
I'm also part of the European Alliance for industrial data. It's in cloud. It is an initiative. I will explain later today later now Run by the by the European Commission and also part of another initiative We call sovereign ads which I always explained. I mean, I'll explain also in a few minutes time
01:24
Okay, so Just To bring you some some ideas. I'm sure most of you are already familiar with some of the concepts on the the Strategy, let's say behind what we're doing right now at the European level
01:42
We've mentioned and before and you're you're perfectly aware of the fact that the the cloud market in Europe is wouldn't say broken, but it's it's Let's say So this is just these are just some figures of the growth of the cloud market in Europe in in recent years
02:04
and how the share of European cloud providers has evolved over time. So what we basically see is that the market is growing enormously but the share of the European cloud providers is actually declining so that all of that business and all that value is being generated by
02:22
Also part of the also through the the pandemic To cloud computing that is mostly benefiting hyperscalers So Also, you're perfectly aware of this so we are now witnessing this kind of change of paradigm So we're moving away from the kind of cloud
02:44
Centralized model to a more decentralized Approach this kind of this shift of paradigm between cloud computing and edge computing and that most of you I'm sure you're aware of And we know we all know it comes with a number of benefits
03:01
We're talking about deployment of applications ultra low level ultra low latency applications improving user experience Think about sectors like online gaming or healthcare. I mean there are a number of functional Advantages to this but from a European perspective There's also a key element in moving away from cloud computing a centralized cloud computing model dominated by hyperscalers
03:25
to a decentralized edge computing model in which other companies have a say and That is to also foster here in Europe a new ecosystem of of Infrastructure providers that can bring some balance to to that market
03:40
So we are assuming that the cloud market is dominated by hyperscalers and on you companies that that's Honestly, that's unlikely to change What we can do is leverage this shift this new paradigm of edge computing where we know there are going to be a number Of demands for this new infrastructure doesn't exist yet Well this technology that actually doesn't exist yet to bring some balance to that market and allow a smaller companies in Europe
04:04
For instance to build their own infrastructure offering Bring that to the public with this new platforms new technologies Hopefully based on open source as I will explain a second and bring some balance to the market That's that's now heavily heavily unbalanced and to the point that we all agree and also the Commission that
04:22
We call it a market failure. So it is so Complicated so Unbalanced that now it's very difficult for a new company to get into this market and actually Survive against these big players Okay This is especially relevant in Europe because we have a powerful tool here, which is the the telecom sector and
04:47
as I explained a second many of the initiatives that are taking place now in Europe they rely or They hope that the telecom sector in Europe will come together and will help to build this alternative edge infrastructure That will be able to to bring and offer an alternative to hyperscalers
05:04
We need to get the telcos involved and that also means we have to fight sometimes from the open source perspective but in general for this new change of paradigm, we have to fight against the temptation in some companies in Europe to Align their priorities or get some agreements with with hyperscalers to speed up the deployment of edge infrastructure
05:24
in the market, but we all agree that this this might come with some Risks in the midterm. I Think we all agree on that So I'm going to be Explained today what we are doing at the at the European Alliance for for industrial data edge and cloud and other initiatives that we're moving
05:44
and promoting from the from the European open source sector The main challenge here if you think about what the future is going to be or what kind of challenges we're going to have In the future in the near future I mean there obviously there are many technical challenges and political challenges as well a basic one
06:02
Which we still don't have an answer for that is how we're going to manage if by the end of the the decade we have We actually have tens of thousands of edge nodes across the continent how on earth we're going to manage all that infrastructure How are we going to manage? thousands of edge nodes different with different architectures from different brands from all of those managed by hundreds potentially potentially hundreds of different
06:27
infrastructure providers That's the whole idea so how we bring all this new emerging infrastructure together How we build the tools for a for a user for a customer to actually leverage all this new infrastructure That's still to come and how to make that in a way
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That's that doesn't bring us again to a new scenario of vendor locking so we can How can we make sure that all these workloads can move freely from one place to another hope we automate all these deployments? But to make this really easy for people to actually use this Thousands of edge nodes that will be available in the market here in Europe Hopefully in a few years time so that's a very specific technical challenge that we have to solve right now
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and we have to decide how we fix that and whether we want to fix that as Europeans or we want to again rely on non European organizations and companies to do this for us Which is very comfortable, but then at some point realize we don't have these skills in Europe to take over these projects if something happens
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so I talked about the alignment so there is a gravel alignment and Sometimes quite explicit from what the kind of the signals we get from the from the Commission in this in this case and what the industry As a whole in Europe is doing but specifically the European open source technology providers
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so there are some some very clear declarations from from top EU figures about the need to Achieve this kind of technological sovereignty in some sense and in some way or another Trying to come I mean coexist with hyperscalers, but hopefully creating some alternative a scenario for Europe
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Happily there are also quite explicit declarations on the role that open source is expected to play in all this and and there is a commitment to this and I'm happy to say that the Discussions we have within the within the Alliance to define this technology priorities and this coin investment priorities
08:23
They are quite well aligned with the fact that these technologies have to be open source and open source is the way to Mobilize this collaboration between between different companies in Europe Obviously that doesn't mean proprietary software is not going to be there because it has to be there and it's the base of some business Models out there, but open source is going to play a key role in all this again
08:45
We see this aligned with with what we've read from from the Commission Through a number of documents that I'm sure you're familiar with and also with decorations from people like like Commissioner to leave your tongue As I mentioned before one of the practical challenges how if we
09:02
Believe what the digital decade a strategy says will have by the end of this decade Thousands of its notes across Europe. How are we going to manage this infrastructure infrastructure? What's the technology that's going to allow new infrastructure providers to offer this to the customers? So that technology doesn't necessarily exist right now
09:22
that technology in any case We think should be European if we want to extend this concept of sovereignty Down to the technology stack not just leave that at the data level or at the cloud provider level
09:41
we see also in the the reviewed industrial strategy from the From the Commission that the the role that edge computing is expected to play in this in all this in this data Processing that's moving away gradually quite rapidly Sometimes from the from a centralized cloud to to the edge We're going to use that actually bring some balance to the market
10:02
So make sure that European companies have something to say in that and it's not and if the model doesn't replicate again The kind of oligopoly key structure we have in the cloud market So that's that's the role of edge computing and that's also increasingly the role that open source is perceived or expected to play In in bringing different different companies together to build this in the long term and maintain the whole thing running
10:26
Obviously we can really see things with the we need an a long-term commitment from the European industry Not just to consume technology But also an income system integrators as well just to consume technologies and sell them and resell them But also maintain them in the long term. That's one of the main challenges we'll have
10:42
so the European Alliance for industrial data edge and cloud that's that's one of the steps one of the One of the initiatives that the Commission has put in place in which the European Industries is playing a leading role here So it comes back from the from a declaration from member states the commitment to support these new technologies cloud edge technologies
11:06
If you read the the this original declaration which they they committed to expand the spending all this transformation around 10 billion euros I don't think we'll get that much but it's it's Explained later is that it is a quite decent amount of money involved in all this
11:21
But we see in this even in this decoration There are already some references to at least something that sounds a bit like open source something for open sources standards, whatever that is But it still it's good to see it's eating there somehow So the Alliance was born in 2021 this what there was an initial
11:42
publication of an industrial technology roadmap from a number of European companies at the CEO level it was then launched at the end of 2021 by Commission to be written and I'm happy to say that by the end of February probably will be in in in good condition to publish the the updated version of this
12:01
Technology roadmap with all the technology priorities that have been identified and deployment priorities that have been identified in Europe from the industry perspective, but also in alignment with the division of the of the European Commission The Alliance brings Companies private companies European only European companies
12:23
Member states and then also a number of experts are involved in this and in this these discussions We had our first physical General Assembly here in Brussels at the in early December. It was quite successful The idea is again as I mentioned a line, I mean identify this this investment needs these these priorities how to bring together the the
12:47
Expectations and the needs and the potential of the industry in Europe with what the Commission is actually expecting or they vision What would Europe needs in in coming years and these these challenges? Right now there are there are three working groups one for them one of them is for the four member states
13:03
This is mainly people involved in discussions on Procurement, so they're looking at how to from that procurement perspective help European companies and cloud providers in In daily business with the administration in different countries
13:20
the main question we get from them is should we restrict contracts to European you to only European companies and then it's very tempting to say yes, but Personally, I will say well you took that. I mean you take the decision. I mean, I'm not I'm just a company Just that's something for you to decide obviously that will benefit us But I mean discussions are more complex, but that's that's one of the that's one of the the topics
13:43
That keeps coming up Many times and then there are two working groups for industry One of them is the cloud edge working group that we've from open ever we we share along with another two companies with cap Germany and and SAP and then there's an a specific working group for the
14:01
Everything that has to do with cloud for defense and aeronautics Sector which I'm happy to say some of you were earlier this morning in this debate ahead with the gale from a clip some nation It was striking for me personally to see all these people coming from the defense industry saying that they they want to use open source So the debates in the internal debates is not about property source open source code or or open source
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They want to use open source. It doesn't need help to make sure that they can use open source under the very specific Restrictions that they have in this sector. So I think that's a good news for for everyone So The ally the alliance that not all the logos here
14:42
This is an old version But as you see some of the main actors in in the European industry as a whole not just technology providers But for people from from other sectors as well contributing to this cloud providers as well There was as I mentioned the first version of this Document released in 2021 and will will have that released in probably end of February
15:02
So one of the ideas is also for those of you have familiar with all the different programs that the Commission has Has in place things like Horizon Europe or digital Europe or self? to to make sure that from from industry we feed the the Commission with what's actually the the Challenges and the needs we have in terms of advancing all these technologies
15:24
For for clouds and it's and to make sure that the new calls and the new actions under these programs are aligned with what? We're actually from the industry identify. So it's like giving a quick channel to give feedback to the Commission to what this this This topics could could be in terms of helping us also advance that
15:43
So that is that's the structure of the of the Alliance. I'm also Here for to invite all of you if you come from a European Company and you are I mean your business is relevant to cloud and I guess that's why you're here right now There's there's an open process to join it goes through the through the European Commission you can join the
16:03
Alliance you can join the different working groups And participate maybe it's a bit not too late for the for this new version But there will be new versions and new working groups during the rest of the of the year And it's a long-term commitment from these companies to participate in this
16:20
so That's from the what the European Commission Side has to do In the meantime from the more specifically from the open source From the European open source industry where we've also been working in having some more cooperation and collaboration among among ourselves
16:41
In 2021 we launched kind of an informal Initiative or community you could call we call sovereign edge It's about bringing together European open source technology providers that have some They develop some technologies or we develop some technologies in Europe that are relevant for for edge computing and this this
17:01
change of paradigm, and we think it makes sense to Get closer to each other and get to know each other a bit better and integrations and all that and going together to To some of these projects that will be coming up in the near future So we've started with an informal community of European open source companies
17:22
We produce software and we have really have some level of integration among ourselves The objective is at some point to offer an alternative stack of European open source technologies for public administrations and companies and systems system integrators Also with making sure that we have connections with all the European relevant
17:41
European cloud providers to offer a list an alternative that goes beyond data and cloud it also covers the technology that Sustains all this We launched this as I mentioned in 2021 informally in 20 at the end of 2021
18:01
I'm quite proud of this We didn't get this money But I'm quite proud of this because this was the first time the European open source industry came together to apply a submit a horizon Europe Project to the Commission we didn't get this money But it was it was a very nice experience to try to bring people who've had never ever considered to
18:21
To go into to get into into a research or innovation Project a European project coming together and preparing this proposal was as you know, it's a lot of a lot of work Happily we got it the second time. So this is the cosmic project. It has started now in January We from up and able to coordinate this project
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With a number of other organizations in both it's going to be running for three years and I'm happy to say this is the actual implementation of this this initial collaboration between open source European open source providers and their research and innovation ecosystem in Europe to produce some some technology together and respond to some of the these calls from the horizon Europe program and
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Finally just to finish a very quick introduction to another initiative. That's now ongoing, which is the import Let me see if I get this right important product of common European interest for next-generation cloud infrastructure and services Okay, so it's it's I says for friends
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We've been preparing this for what a couple of years or so if this this is This goes through the next generation funding. It's led by Germany and France with heavy support from the Commission and well in total It's 12 member states of going to mobilize funding from the Commission
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I mean from European funding through their national budgets state aid school To to set up this huge project for the for cow that's Continuum and at different levels we have I cannot disclose in the companies the specific companies, but it's it's European industry telecommunication companies software developers coming together to cloud providers coming together to build a
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whole stack of The technologies and the advanced services we need for infrastructure Applications on data, so it's really exciting It will cover a number of challenges that we won't get into the details here, but it was we have it
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Will be available on the on these slides But yeah things big topics like interoperability portability I mean meta orchestration across different providers avoiding vendor blocking and managing all this huge heterogeneous infrastructure that we expect to be in Europe in the coming years and This is going to run we pass all the tests and all the
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Questions from the from digit competition and the rest of the Commission. It will start hopefully This year the second semester, so we'll be running for five years Yeah, that's my personal opinion, but I think The components that we are we're building or will be building in this project. They have the potential to actually become
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You'll see even when this is published it's equivalent to the Semiconductor or the hydrogen upside project that are already approved But I think that these the open-source that will be producing here Hopefully will have the potential to become the fully largest open-source project in Europe in the coming years, so
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state up to stay Stay in touch because that will need help and also an invitation for you to follow the This new project that we are we are starting now under the horizon Europe program. Thank you