About this episode
The episode discusses the growing concerns over data sovereignty and the shift from US technology to open source solutions in France.
In the last year I've seen a lot of statements about data and sovereignty between countries. While there have been concerns in the past, there seems to be more worry around the world with AI services primarily being run by, and hosted by, US companies. Plenty of my customers at Redgate Software have concerns over our ability to see data when we run AI models, though we don't store the data. Once the session ends, the data is discarded by policy Recently I saw a piece about France trying to rid itself of the reliance on US technology , specifically the Windows OS from Microsoft. They are looking to move to their own version of Linux, as well as a number of open source software packages. This quote was fascinating to me: "We can no longer accept that our data, our infrastructure, and our strategic decisions depend on solutions whose rules, pricing, evolution, and risks we do not control." Read the rest of The New OS Wars
People in this episode
Host: Steve Jones
Topics covered
- data sovereignty
- AI services
- open source software
- US technology
- Linux
- Windows OS
Keywords
- data sovereignty
- AI
- open source
- Linux
- Windows OS
- France
- technology
Mentioned in this episode
Organizations: Redgate Software, Microsoft
Products: Windows OS, Linux
Places: France
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