The Eco Edge to Cloud Continuum project has been featured in the latest edition of the Voices of 8ra interview series, which highlights the people and projects contributing to the development of Europe’s Multi-Provider Cloud-Edge Continuum. In the interview, François Exertier and Patrice Calegari, from Bull, share their insights on interoperability, digital sovereignty, and the importance of open collaboration in creating a robust European technology ecosystem.

Published by the 8ra initiative, the interview explores how E2CC is addressing one of the key challenges of today’s digital landscape: reducing dependency on individual technology providers. According to the project team, E2CC is developing an end-to-end platform designed to connect cloud, edge and on-premises infrastructures through open standards and common management and orchestration capabilities, enabling organisations to deploy and move applications across different environments with greater flexibility.

A central theme of the discussion is the project’s commitment to openness and interoperability. Rather than developing every component from scratch, E2CC builds on technologies already available within the wider 8ra ecosystem, extending existing solutions where necessary and contributing improvements back to the community. This approach supports collaboration across projects while helping to accelerate innovation and avoid unnecessary duplication of effort.

The interview also highlights E2CC’s work on intelligent orchestration across the Cloud-Edge Continuum. By monitoring factors such as performance, cost and energy consumption, the platform aims to automate workload placement while maintaining the security requirements of different applications and infrastructures. Security, the interview notes, remains a fundamental requirement throughout the orchestration process.

More broadly, François Exertier and Patrice Calegari reflect on the importance of collaboration within the European digital ecosystem. Their contribution to the Voices of 8ra series underlines how cooperation between research organisations, technology providers and industrial partners is helping to advance a federated, interoperable Cloud-Edge Continuum aligned with European priorities. As Patrice Calegari notes in the interview, “The fact that so many European partners can work together is already a form of sovereignty.”

The full interview is available on the 8ra website as part of the Voices of 8ra series, which showcases the projects and experts driving the next generation of European cloud-edge infrastructure and services.