SAP: 20 billion euros for sovereignty
With the extensions to the Sovereign Cloud offering, SAP supports various deployment models – including operation in local data centers.
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SAP plans to invest over 20 billion euros in the expansion of its sovereign cloud offering by 2025. The funds will be used to expand regional coverage with secure, regulatory-compliant cloud offerings in order to promote Europe's digital independence. Companies and organizations in highly regulated industries should thus receive innovations in the field of artificial intelligence, for example, without compromise within a "sovereign framework".
At the IT Summit by heise 2025 on November 11 and 12 in Munich, renowned experts will explain what European cloud hosters can do compared to US hyperscalers and how to operate AI solutions locally. Learn from case studies how other companies have reduced their digital dependency. Find out how open source makes your software landscape more independent and why more digital sovereignty improves IT security.
The IT Summit by heise 2025, the new conference for IT managers, will take place on November 11 and 12 at Nemetschek Haus in Munich. The organizer is heise conferences, the program comes from the iX editorial team.
The expanded Sovereign Cloud portfolio offers several deployment options for different security profiles. These include the IaaS platform SAP Cloud Infrastructure, which is based on open source components, runs in the company's own data center network and stores data exclusively in the EU. As part of the cloud-on-site variant, an infrastructure operated by SAP is provided in the data center designated by the application company –, i.e. with its own physical control on site –.
SAP's sovereign cloud offerings also include the Delos Cloud. The environment operated by the subsidiary of the same name is intended to enable public administration to use Microsoft products in a sovereign manner, among other things. The infrastructure is based on the Azure stack, but is owned by Delos, which operates under German law. The US manufacturer therefore has no direct access to the system. For the hyperscaler option – the Sovereign Cloud is in principle also possible on the platforms of the major providers – this does not apply.
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The two new deployment models undoubtedly promise the most comprehensive control and sovereignty. SAP wants and will pay for the extended protection. After all, additional staff will have to be hired at German prices for all-round operation from the local data centers. Details on pricing and any surcharges for more sovereignty were not provided.
More details on SAP's sovereign cloud offerings can be found in the announcement.
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