Free guide: How to choose a European cloud provider

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Moving to a European cloud is no longer a question of whether, but of where to start and how fast. A server in Europe is only the first step: real sovereignty also depends on who owns the provider, which laws apply to it, and whether you can leave with your data.

This guide is based on a webinar in which Axual’s Chief Commercial Officer Frenk Ochse and Cloud Operations Engineer Alain Wouterlood shared how Axual selected a European cloud provider for its own managed service. It covers the legal, geopolitical, financial and technical questions, and what the choice means in day-to-day operations.

What you’ll learn

Why data residency is not the same as sovereignty
The questions to ask every provider, from ultimate ownership to encryption keys
What to watch for in contracts, pricing models, certifications and scalability
How to decide which workloads must move first, and which can wait
How Axual ran its own selection, from longlist to proof of concept
A complete checklist to take into your own selection

For: CIOs, CISOs, platform leads and architects in regulated organisations.

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"By having access to this real-time data, Eneco can use its data flexibly to help the organization and its customers even better."

Iem Smid

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"Data governance is critical at Rabobank. With Axual, we are able to see who has permission, who owns the data, or if the owner has given permission, and what the structure of the messages are."

Vincent Oostindie

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“We were at a crossroads, with legacy technology preventing a solid digital transformation, and an ambitious strategy for customer centricity underlining requirements for becoming data-driven. We really needed the Axual platform to allow us to make the leap.”

Roger Stoffers

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