The Dutch national bank chooses Lidl cloud services

https://tweakers.net/nieuws/246996/de-nederlandsche-bank-kiest-voor-duitse-cloud-van-moederbedrijf-lidl.html

De Nederlandsche Bank vermindert de afhankelijkheid van Amerikaanse techbedrijven door voor clouddiensten aan te kloppen bij het moederbedrijf van supermarktconcern Lidl.

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aeronmelon@lemmy.world · 31 pts · 132d (3 replies)

Lidl, the supermarket?

fartsparkles@lemmy.world · 48 pts · 132d

Amazon, the bookstore?

Yama_Pattern_01@piefed.social · 15 pts · 131d

Not exactly “Lidl the supermarket.” It’s Schwarz Digits, the Schwarz Group tech arm. They eg sell STACKIT cloud and have dedicated cybersec offerings like XM Cyber. For context, the parent group did approx €175.4bn revenue in FY2024, which is not really a meme side quest.

filcuk@lemmy.zip · 5 pts · 131d

We have Tesco Bank and Co-op Funeral care, so why not

HenriVolney@sh.itjust.works · 4 pts · 131d

Yes!!!

liaizon@social.wake.st · -4 pts · 132d (3 replies)

@Blaze that is frankly bizarre

realitaetsverlust@piefed.zip · 14 pts · 132d

Not really. If you want a hyper reliable cluster from a non-american company, you don't have a lot of choices honestly.

whyNotSquirrel@sh.itjust.works · 3 pts · 131d

Quoting a wise person known as fartsparkles: "Amazon the bookstore?"

One company can have multiple services

immibis@social.immibis.com · 1 pts · 132d

@liaizon @Blaze I don't think they have many options. Also governments usually only buy from companies that submit government tenders - it's on the company to apply to sell to the government.