The fact that important members are slowly withdrawing and that the funding is not flowing as originally planned is not a good sign. Pfirsching: I see a great danger, at least, that it will never get off the ground. It never really got to the point where companies would say: I see value in this.ĭoes that mean that Gaia-X is already dead? Gaia-X never got out of this theoretical sinkhole. This is still a long way from clear, tangible use cases. There is still an attempt to find common rules and standards. Today, it is a loose association that, in my view, operates too much at the meta level. As more and more members, large and small, joined the ecosystem, the goals became increasingly blurred. Pfirsching: Gaia-X has pursued the goal of creating a common basis or a common set of rules for legally compliant data use in the cloud. Volker Pfirsching: At the very least, Gaia-X is one of those projects that started with a good idea but then failed to reach critical mass or really take off. Is it possible that it will join one of the many European IT initiatives that ultimately come to nothing? In this interview, he explains that while key members are pulling out, and that funding isn’t flowing as planned, this may not be the end of GAIA-X yet, but just a cleansing effect.Ĭomputerwoche: The European cloud project Gaia-X - the representatives of which prefer to call it a secure European data infrastructure - has been quiet. Little, where he also heads the company’s global Digital Competence Center. Pfirsching is a partner and member of the Central European management board at management consultancy Arthur D. Too many of the participants in the European cloud project Gaia-X are pursuing their own interests and diluting the concept, Volker Pfirsching told CIO.com’s sister publication Computerwoche in a recent interview.

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