Sovereign Cloud Stack

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SCS Summit 2023 - a summary

Friederike Zelke June 07, 2023

Secure and digital sovereign cloud infrastructure is right now no longer an idea or an illusion. And also the definition of this often used term, that it is way more than mere legal compliance, becomes common, doesn’t it?

At the SCS Summit it does. The Summit strikes a bow from the need of digital sovereignty to examples of implemented and operated digital sovereign infrastructure. Speakers and attendees from public administration, business companies, organizations, and the community came together to share their knowledge, experiences, concerns, and hopes.

As the SCS is a publicly funded project Ernst Stöckl-Pukall as representitive of the BMWK the federal ministry of economics and climate and Rafael Laguna de La Vera from SPRIN-D the federal agency of leap innovations opened the summit with the story of SCS and why this project was worth to be started and funded - because to get a chance to become digital sovereign the base and IT infrastructure is needed! Martin Schallbruch and Silke Tessmann-Storch made it more tangible what it means for public administration to get digital sovereign with open source also for the “Verwaltungscloud”. But digital sovereignty is not only needed in Germany, the panel proved that this is a European need. Europe is based on profound values, but the values of independence, freedom, security, openness stay unconcrete as long as the base for their practical realization is not implemented. And this implementations must be in Europe, we need the technology and the knowledge. That´s why SCS is so important. And we were quite lucky to elect a polical leadership who understands the need and the solution…

The solutions SCS is offering is not only a base for European digital sovereignty. Martin Wimmer from BMZ introduced GovStack, an international initiative for digital collaboration. The ability to learn from each other, to share knowledge and technology and to understand even better is a chance for peace, health and wealth on a global level. SCS could become a global solution. So we are able to spread the values as well.

Which values SCS is offering with its technical solution was subject in two panels when Kurt Garloff and Johan Christensen talk about the openness of SCS and how this openness foster a community, but also business. Collaboratively business was subject of the Open Operations panel where representitives and CEOs of cloud service providers and the community talked about the advantages of open source and transparent operations: even smaller teams are able to react fast and to strengthen the security.

With all these ideas, visions, and values digital sovereignty is not yet reality - also players, partners and the community are needed. That´s why these players, partners, and the community shared their experiences with SCS: cloud service providers like plusserver, Wavecon, and OSISM together with JH-Computers, integrator of the software solution of SCS B1 Systems, users and communities like GXFS and the University of applied Science Osnabrück, and business users like VOICE association and DATEV. And they all proved the advantages of the transparent, open source cloud instructure and the community are a perfect base for business, science, innovation, and digital sovereignty.

You will find the archived program page with all talks here https://scs.community/summit2023/

Selection of talks

Grußwort des BMWK

— Ernst Stöckl-Pukall, Leiter Referat Digitalisierung & Industrie 4.0, Bundesministerium für Wirtschaft und Klimaschutz

Die Bedeutung von Digitaler Souveränität für Innovation, Freiheit und Demokratie

— Rafael Laguna de La Vera, Direktor der Bundesagentur für Sprunginnovationen SPRIND

Warum digitale Souveränität wichtig für Europa (die europäische Wirtschaft) ist

— Miriam Seyffarth, Leiterin Politische Kommunikation, OSB Alliance e.V. (Moderation); Dr. Franziska Brantner, Parl. Staatssekretärin im Bundesministerium für Wirtschaft und Klimaschutz; Dr. Reinhard Brandl, Mitglied des Bundestag, Digitalpolitscher Sprecher CDU/CSU Fraktion; Jan Hill, Director Public Sector, adesso SE; Stephan Ilaender, CTO StackIT, Schwarz Gruppe; Milisav Radmanic, Vorstand OSB Alliance e.V.

Internationale Perspektiven auf Digitale Souveränität und Open Source: GovStack und das Netzwerk digital.global

— Martin Wimmer, Chief Digital Officer, Bundesministerium für wirtschaftliche Zusammenarbeit und Entwicklung

Cloud Transformation im öffentlichen Sektor und der Aufbau der Deutschen Verwaltungscloud

— Martin Schallbruch, Vorsitzender des Vorstands der govdigital eG

The vision of one platform - standardized, built and operated by many (EN)

— Johan Christenson, Vice President Innovation, Cleura AB; Kurt Garloff, CTO SCS, OSB Alliance e.V.

Die strategische Relevanz von SCS als Praxisbeispiel digitaler Transformation

— Christian Schmitz, Director Open Source, plusserver gmbh

Ein SCS Datacenter für das 5G-Campusnetz an der Hochschule Osnabrück

— Robert Holling, Dipl.-Wirtsch.-Inf., Reallabor Hoschschule Osnabrück

Building a Community of Practice - der Betrieb von SCS-Infrastrukturen

— Friederike Zelke, Community Manager SCS, OSB Alliance e.V. (Moderation); Alexander Wallner, CEO plusserver GmbH; Cemil Degirmenci, Geschäftsführer der Wavecon GmbH (100% noris network AG); Felix Kronlage-Dammers, Product Owner IaaS & OPS SCS, OSB Alliance e.V.; Christian Berendt, Founder und CEO der OSISM GmbH

Digitale Souveränität und Gaia-X: Warum DATEV sich engagiert

— Jutta Rößner, Leiterin Ecosystem & EAM, Mitglied der Geschäftsleitung bei DATEV eG

Federation Services - Die Open Source Werkzeugkiste zum Aufbau souveräner Datenökosysteme

— Andreas Weiss, Geschäftsbereichsleiter Digitale Geschäftsmodelle, eco - Verband der Internetwirtschaft e.V.

Ein Zero Emission Cloud Computing Center durch SCS betrieben

— Julian Hauber, Geschäftsführer JH-Computers; Christian Berendt, Founder und CEO der OSISM GmbH

Was ist eigentliche eine SCS Zertifizierung

— Alexander Diab, Ecosystem Manager SCS, OSB Alliance e.V.

SCS in 5 Jahren - Ein Ausblick

— Kurt Garloff, CTO SCS, OSB Alliance e.V.

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About the author

Friederike Zelke
After several years as editor in chief of the cloud report, Friederike joined the SCS team as Community Manager in April 2023. Her focus was and will be on free and open source technology, on sovereignty, openness, collaboration, security, and sustainability. With all these topics she wants to get and keep people interested, informed, involved and inspired to engage in SCS, open source and open operations.