The Greek cloud’s little-known, decade-old past

An immaterial, invisible universe, the foundation of our smart world, is already transforming our lives. The cloud is the backbone of the Fourth Industrial Revolution. Hidden inside it is an unknown, 10-year-old Greek story of international success, a pillar of today's extremely rapid digital innovation.

The term "cloud" entered the consciousness of Greece's wider public, including the political/pundit microcosm, with, first, the passage of the new law on digital governance, which mandates that, starting on January 1, 2022, all public agencies must gradually offer their services through the cloud, and second, by Microsoft's announcement that it will build cloud server infrastructure in Greece, putting the country on the international digital map.

But what is this cloud? It is clusters of computers, where huge volumes of data, files and information are stored online....