Red Hat's toolkit offers governments and enterprises a way to measure the control they actually have over their data, infrastructure, and operations in this era of geopolitical cloud anxiety:
Over the past year, several governments and companies outside the US have decided they can't trust American tech companies. So, digital sovereignty has become an important goal. While American companies, as you can imagine, aren't happy about that, they're now helping European organizations to achieve their digital sovereignty goals.
One of the first of these was Linux and cloud-native computing powerhouse Red Hat. Late last year, Red Hat became the first US company to announce its own EU-specific digital sovereignty program, Red Hat Confirmed Sovereign Support (RHCSS). This initiative guarantees critical European IT operations remain under EU control.
Now, Red Hat is backing this initiative with its open-source Digital Sovereignty Readiness Assessment toolkit. This tool is designed to give governments and enterprises a concrete way to measure how much control they actually have over their data, infrastructure, and operations in an era of geopolitical cloud anxiety.
This new web-based, self-service survey walks organizations through 21 multiple-choice questions. Areas covered include data residency, encryption key control, disaster recovery planning for geopolitical events, and the ability to prevent sensitive data from crossing borders. The goal is to move digital sovereignty from vague policy talk to a measurable "sovereignty baseline" that IT and business leaders can act on.
[...] Red Hat's framework evaluates sovereignty maturity across seven domains: data sovereignty, technical sovereignty, operational sovereignty, assurance sovereignty, open source strategy, executive oversight, and managed services. At the end of the questionnaire, organizations receive a score mapped to four stages: foundation, developing, strategic, and advanced. It also includes a roadmap of recommended next steps and research questions for stakeholders.
[...] Of course, Red Hat hopes you'll turn to their services to achieve your digital sovereignty goal, but there's no requirement that you do so. You decide what to do with the analysis and whether you want to join one of the many other European-based governments, companies, and organizations that are waving goodbye to Amazon Web Services, Microsoft, or Google cloud services.
Mind you, all these US tech giants are also now offering their own digital sovereignty initiatives. The Digital Sovereignty Readiness Assessment toolkit can help you decide whether these US offerings meet your needs.
(Score: 3, Insightful) by Revek on Monday February 23, @10:23PM (1 child)
Then you are pretty smart.
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(Score: 0) by Anonymous Coward on Tuesday February 24, @07:52AM
Lots of mainframe users are forced to trust IBM. And IBM has given them decades of backward compatibility and support; in return for tons of money of course.
To paraphrase a Japanese proverb- Those who use mainframes are stupid. Those who don't use mainframes are also stupid.
Java seems to significantly break backward compatibility every few years?
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Java_version_history [wikipedia.org]
Java 8 was released in 2014 and Java 11 broke lots of stuff in 2018.
Java 11 was released in 2018 and Java 17 broke some (less) stuff in 2021:
https://engineering.salesforce.com/behind-salesforces-jdk-11-to-jdk-17-migration-lessons-for-modernizing-large-scale-java-applications/ [salesforce.com]
Seems like IBM's strategy is to make Linux more and more complicated and messed up so that it continues to be stupid to use mainframes AND stupid to not use mainframes.
IBM would be in trouble if Java+Linux kept backward compatibility as well or better than the mainframe stuff.
(Score: 5, Informative) by RedGreen on Monday February 23, @11:25PM (1 child)
Whatever kind of washing you want to call this BS by Redhat it is just that a trap that keeps you under their control. And they are subject to all of the laws the US passes and has already passed requiring them to give unlimited access to everything they do in SECRET without any disclosure of haven given the access. The only sovereign computing is that done by yourself on behalf of your nation doing all of the work to ensure the likes of Redhat, Microsoft, Nvidia, Meta, ... all them parasite US companies have not slipped in any back doors allowing them to mess you about. Anyone who thinks any different is a God damn fool who will get everything they deserve when the inevitable breach of their sovereignty happens when the Russian agent orange in charge of the US now has a mood swing and decides it is time to mess them about some more.
"Cervantes definitely was prescient in describing a senile Don fighting against windmills." -- larryjoe on /.
(Score: 1, Informative) by Anonymous Coward on Tuesday February 24, @04:31PM
What you call "the Russian agent orange" is a great simplification. All of the Executive, half of Congress and two thirds of the Supreme Court are believers in the divine truth that certain people are superior to others. Try getting it off them!
(Score: 5, Interesting) by KritonK on Tuesday February 24, @08:39AM
Many of the questions center around cloud services, and are irrelevant if you don't use them, or run your own cloud server, such as Nextcloud [nextcloud.com]. Do we control our cloud provider's access to our data? Of course we do; we are our cloud provider. Do we control the location of our data? Sure; they are in our computer room. Have we validated and tested the procedure to move our data to another cloud provider? Sure we did; we have moved all of our data from dropbox to our own server, and it worked just fine.
(Score: 3, Touché) by jb on Tuesday February 24, @09:44AM
Someone at IBM's PR department seems to have forgotten the awful legacy of Dehomag...
(Score: 0) by Anonymous Coward on Tuesday February 24, @04:28PM
The unsaid part here is that the USA's idea of freedom is not in alignment with Europe's. This is a fairly savage assessment. All these tools for protecting The People against an elite minority (Royals, dictators, superiors, etc.) are being used against it. Touche, douchebags, touche.