Microsoft-SAP pact aims to keep Euro cloud running in a crisis

SAP and Microsoft have struck a partnership designed to provide safeguards for users of the US vendor's cloud services in Europe during "times of crisis."

Microsoft has signed separate deals with French and German sovereign cloud providers Bleu and Delos Cloud to provide assistance for cross-border cooperation in extensive crisis and emergency scenarios. This includes technical and operational cooperation to ensure rapid, coordinated crisis response even in extreme scenarios, such as military conflict or cyberattacks, according to an SAP announcement.

Delos Cloud is a subsidiary of SAP while Bleu is a French cloud services company launched in 2024 as a joint venture between Orange and Capgemini, in partnership with Microsoft.

The Memorandum of Understanding (MoU) between Delos Cloud and Microsoft gives the SAP subsidiary legal and technical capability to provide cloud services if a government outside Europe restricts Microsoft's cloud services for specific customers, according to the statement ...