From the US cloud back to Europe – our path to a sovereign workplace stack

Insight & Challenge Accepted

Our workplace stack was heavily influenced by US services: Google Workspace for email, Drive and meetings, supplemented by tools such as Notion, Harvest, Reclaim.ai and Slack. Practical, efficient, scalable – but also very one-sided.

For us, it was less of an acute danger and more of a learning curve that affects many other companies in the same way:

• How do we deal with dependencies on individual cloud providers?
• What alternatives are there in Europe?
• And how suitable are these solutions really for everyday use?

These were exactly the questions I wanted to answer for us. Instead of sitting back and doing nothing, I said: Challenge Accepted. The use of local hosts and cloud providers such as IONOS, StackIT, etc. is a growth area.

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