Alliances multiply in Europe to create a true cloud industry. Will they be enough?

On time as announced, the new

European cloud alliance was unveiled before the end of the year.

Structura-X, this is the name of the federation whose baptism were anticipated at the beginning of December. It was founded by seven companies (and not six, as initially emerged) from Italy, France and Germany.

They wear the Aruba flag, the champion of data centers; Engineering, multinational of IT services; Top-Ix, the consortium that manages an internet exchange to serve the Northwest area. Più Noovle, Tim’s subsidiary dedicated to developing the cloud and data center market, which took over from the parent company in the alliance with Google. The team is completed by the French IT giant Atos, T-Systems, a subsidiary of the German telecommunications company Deutsche Telekom, and De-Cix, a German internet exchange.

A market player

The initiative, created to make the cloud infrastructures of these companies interoperable, has already expanded to other companies in the sector in Europe for a total of 20 components. The name is no coincidence.