Tag: digital sovereignty

Microsoft levels up Azure Local to make it fit for large-scale sovereign clouds

Can now use SANs for storage, and adds a local control plane and key management

SUSE's sovereignty pitch meets an inconvenient $6 billion question

Linux vendor touts European independence at SUSECON as majority stakeholder quietly explores its options

UK told its Big Tech habit is now a national security risk

Open Rights Group says years of reliance on US giants have left Britain exposed

Digital sovereignty isn't just a buzzword – it's the future

Linux Foundation Europe boss predicts EU will run as fast as it can from US tech companies

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France’s digital directorate dumping Windows desktops, adopting Linux instead

Après ça, le déluge, as plans call for move away from plenty more American software and hardware

OpenInfra General Manager talks sovereignty, governments deploying tech 'kill switches'

Geopolitics enter the room as Thierry Carrez shows that there's more to Kubecon than AI

Digital euro goes full sovereignty mode, US cloud giants not on guest list

Central bank turns to homegrown providers to underpin virtual cash push

Europe's cloud minnows tell Brussels to stop big tech 'sovereignty-washing'

24 execs sign open letter demanding control-based definitions and reserved procurement

conceptual illustration - EU flag makes ripples in pool of binary data

Office EU waves sovereignty flag with a familiar stack under the bonnet

Euro productivity suite appears to be hosted Nextcloud and Collabora Online

Large scissors taking care of the phone line

Worried Europeans can now cut Azure's phone cord completely

As transatlantic tensions rattle nerves, Microsoft offers a digital bunker to the sufficiently paranoid

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Founder ditches AWS for Euro stack, finds sovereignty isn't plug-and-play

Attempt to go 'Made in EU' offers big tech escapees a reality check where lower cloud bills come with higher effort

Digital sovereignty must define itself before it can succeed

Great concept, shame about the details

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Frankfurt to dethrone London as colocation king by 2031

AI, sovereignty drives continental drift of datacenter capacity

Europe's sovereign cloud spend set to triple as geopolitics bite

Gartner predicts strong uptake driven by concerns over reliance on foreign providers

Cloud sovereignty is no longer just a public sector concern

Businesses still chase the cheapest option, but politics and licensing shocks are changing priorities, says OpenNebula Systems

Estonia hedges its bets on US tech while going all-in on Microsoft

Riigi IT preps European escape plan as it herds civil servants into Redmond's cloud

Want digital sovereignty? That'll be 1% of your GDP into AI infrastructure please

Analyst predicts massive spend on domestic AI stacks

Off-Prem

Euro firms must ditch Uncle Sam's clouds and go EU-native

Just because you're paranoid about digital sovereignty doesn't mean they're not after you

AI + ML

Microsoft CEO: AI sovereignty isn't where it runs, it's who controls it

Ownership of models, embedded corporate knowledge matters more than server location, Nadella says

Open source's new mission: Rebuild a continent's tech stack

Freedom can be very contagious if it grows on its own terms. Europe of all places should know that

AWS flips switch on Euro cloud as customers fret about digital sovereignty

EU-only ops, German subsidiaries, and a pinky promise your data won't end up in Uncle Sam's hands

Security

NATO's battle for cloud sovereignty: Speed is existential

Build a digital backbone faster than adversaries can evolve or lose the information war

AI + ML

Data warehousing in the AI era starts with sovereignty

The question isn't on-prem or cloud. It's control without cost, scale, or innovation trade-offs

Security

GrapheneOS bails on OVHcloud over France's privacy stance

Project cites fears of state access as cloud sovereignty row deepens

Canadian data order risks blowing a hole in EU sovereignty

OVH stuck between a rock and a hard place as investigators demand access

Off-Prem

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

Vendors set up sovereign fallback so customers aren't stranded by foreign interference

Europe's IT spend to surge 11% as cloud sovereignty fever takes hold

AI, cybersecurity, and geopolitical jitters forecast to push market to $1.4T next year

AWS Re:invent

Geopolitics push European CIOs to think local on cloud

Majority of customers plan to favor domestic providers as sovereignty fears rise

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Storage

Data sovereignty: Don't just tick the box, think outside it

How your data strategy can fuel innovation

Systems

Why digital sovereignty is the key to public sector transformation

From public sector to education, IONOS and Dataport prove trust begins with secure infrastructure.

France jacks into the Matrix for state messaging – and pays too

Governments eye comms alternatives as sovereignty worries mount

EU sovereignty plan accused of helping US cloud giants

Brussels' framework muddies the waters and could hand advantage to foreign hyperscalers, says trade body

Security

Three in four European companies are hooked on US tech

Secure your data, avoid US sanctions, and stay compliant with European cybersecurity alternatives