How Lidl accidentally took on the big guns of cloud computing
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A unit of Europe’s largest retailer is offering IT services to companies wary of big providers such as Amazon and Google
  • yetAnotherUser@discuss.tchncs.de
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    4 days ago

    Can’t read the article (paywall) but how are Lidl’s cloud services more significant than something like OEDIV owned by food manufacturer Dr. Oetker?

    • schubidubiduba@lemmy.dbzer0.com
      3·
      4 days ago

      From my very quick research, OEDIV seems to mostly offer managed hosting for IBM, SAP and Microsoft services, with tech support, setup help etc.

      StackIT from Lidl is a more general cloud offering, for instance offering more customisable options (like barebone VMs) for the companies that want to do things themselves