Bell Canada and SAP Canada announced a memorandum of understanding (MoU) to jointly deliver a comprehensive Canadian‑operated cloud solution designed to meet high data protection standards and strengthen Canada’s digital sovereignty.
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The partnership will combine Bell AI Fabric’s secure national network, compute, and data center footprint with SAP’s Sovereign Cloud On-Site (SCOS) solution and Canadian‑based operations team. Together, the companies aim to deliver a trusted, fully-Canadian, isolated cloud alternative for the public sector and regulated industries that require strict control over sensitive information and mission-critical workloads.
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The solution intends to ensure sensitive government, citizen, and organizational data remain within Canadian borders, shielded from extra-territorial access. Delivered by security-credentialed personnel in specialized facilities, the platform aims to support compliance with data residency and sovereignty requirements while helping customers modernize applications, adopt cloud services, and drive innovation and AI adoption.
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SAP Canada is also integrating Cohere’s leading enterprise-grade AI platform into SAP Sovereign Cloud to deliver a unique integrated sovereign offering. Along with Bell AI Fabric, Cohere empowers Canadian organizations to harness the power of AI while ensuring their sensitive information, AI models, and agents stay firmly within their control.
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I guess one positive thing is that I have never heard of sap delivering anything on time or on budget, so there is probably plenty of time for a decent competitor to grab market share
Fuuuuuuuuuck Bell. They hand internet usage data to the US, in bulk, so bottom feeding lawyers can send copyright infringement notices. The only think they are interested in is monetizing yet another shitty situation for Canadians.
Also, fuck SAP. It has all the features anyone could ever want in the year 1995. Thanks to their wonderful software they only way for me to find inventory is to Ctrl-f a 40K line xlsx and I can’t submit work orders between midnight at the head office in Europe and midnight local time.
Cohere, eh?
Cohere, a $5.5B Canadian A.I. Startup, Is Quietly Working with Peter Thiel’s Palantir https://observer.com/2024/12/openai-rival-cohere-partner-palantir/
Other than it being Bell (or Rogers even), its a good plan. Should be a national venture, not private.
Yup. ROBeLUS involvement is a bad sign. But they’d do whatever they’re gonna do.
Should be a national venture, not private.
💯. But that’s not how we do things these days so these DCs will be more expensive to use than they need to be.
