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Quick and incomplete summary: In recent years Lidl invested heavily in cyber security and cloud computing, first for their own independent infrastructure, but they're already selling their security and cloud services to other big companies. The video makes the point that eventually they could become a proper competition for Amazon AWS and other services.

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[โ€“] reboot6675@sopuli.xyz 24 points 4 days ago (2 children)

"Buying storage and compute services from Lidl" is a wild sentence I never thought I'd say haha

[โ€“] meldrik@lemmy.wtf 8 points 4 days ago (1 children)

Wouldnโ€™t mind it. Imagine going to Lidl and walking out with some groceries and a new server. Amazing.

Wouldnโ€™t mind it. Imagine going to Lidl and walking out with some groceries and a new server and a kayak

Fixed it for you.

[โ€“] snuggledick@lemm.ee 4 points 4 days ago

Haha yeah that's what I thought, but on the other hand Amazon started as a book store, so why not a grocery discounter. ๐Ÿคทโ€โ™‚๏ธ

[โ€“] 9point6@lemmy.world 25 points 4 days ago

Please tell me the object storage is called แบž3

[โ€“] then_three_more@lemmy.world 7 points 4 days ago (1 children)

Having used some of their, admittedly older, "bespoke warehouse management systems" we're fucking doomed.

[โ€“] snuggledick@lemm.ee 6 points 4 days ago (1 children)

Was that before or after their "digitalization" offensive? Apparently the old CEO was fired after like a hundred years of running the company because he opposed anything technology and apparently didn't even own a computer himself, the new one did very sharp turnaround according to the video.

[โ€“] then_three_more@lemmy.world 3 points 4 days ago (1 children)

Admittedly it was before, during and just after they threw half a billion euros away trying and failing to introduce SAP.

https://www.consultancy.uk/news/18243/lidl-cancels-sap-introduction-having-sunk-500-million-into-it

[โ€“] Obi@sopuli.xyz 3 points 4 days ago

Yikes, SAP transitions can be absolute shite but turning back around after being half a billion into the slide must've hurt.

[โ€“] VolumetricShitCompressor@lemmy.dbzer0.com 4 points 4 days ago (1 children)
[โ€“] RidderSport@feddit.org 1 points 4 days ago

That abbreviation is already blocked by the German weather service

[โ€“] sunzu2@thebrainbin.org 1 points 4 days ago (1 children)

Maybe a bit premature for amazon competitor but definitely an alternative

[โ€“] snuggledick@lemm.ee 8 points 4 days ago

Couple of big companies like banks are already using their services because they're hosted in Germany and Austria and comply with GDPR, I think that's a huge selling point. Question is if they'll go public and make their services available for everyone, not just big businesses.

[โ€“] Blaze@feddit.nl 1 points 4 days ago

Interesting, thanks for sharing