data sovereignty

The European Parliament has taken the rare and unambiguous step of disabling built‑in generative AI features on the work devices it issues to Members of the European Parliament (MEPs) and staff — a precautionary block driven by an internal cybersecurity assessment that concluded the institution...

France has moved decisively to end the long-running dispute over where the nation’s most sensitive health data should be hosted: the government has launched a formal procurement process to move the Health Data Hub off Microsoft Azure and onto a SecNumCloud‑qualified, European or French cloud...

South Africa’s cloud storage market is no longer a niche play — it’s a fast-moving battleground where global hyperscalers and domestic specialists compete to solve the same core problems: data sovereignty, resilience in an energy-constrained environment, cost predictability for rand-based...

The responses from Legora and Tandem Health’s founders to the shockwaves sent by Anthropic and OpenAI are less defensive than instructive: rather than seeing Claude, ChatGPT Health and other frontier-model moves as existential threats, these Swedish founders frame them as validation of demand, a...

Satya Nadella’s brief Davos intervention did more than reframe a familiar debate — it refracted the old question of where data lives into a sharper argument about who owns what inside AI models, and why that ownership will define corporate sovereignty in the AI era. At the World Economic Forum’s...

Microsoft’s Azure Local brings the Azure management plane to customer-owned hardware, promising cloud-like APIs and services in your data center — but it’s not a substitute for the public cloud’s scale and elasticity. This article explains what Azure Local delivers, what it intentionally does...

Concentric AI’s Semantic Intelligence platform can now run its Private Scan Manager inside AWS GovCloud (U.S., giving U.S. federal agencies, contractors, and other regulated organizations a new option to process Controlled Unclassified Information (CUI) and highly sensitive data inside...

Premier Wab Kinew says he’s built a homemade translator that uses large language models to turn written English into Anishinaabemowin, and the project has turned a quiet technology experiment into a province-wide conversation about language preservation, data sovereignty, classroom rules and the...

Microsoft’s Azure story in 2025 became a story of scale, partnership, and pragmatic governance — a year in which the cloud shifted from being merely elastic infrastructure to the operational backbone for enterprise AI, agentic automation, and sovereign-data commitments. Background / Overview...

Microsoft Teams is already the place where government work happens — meetings, messages, and decisions — but turning it into a safe, auditable coordination layer for inter‑agency services requires more than rolling out seats; it demands sovereignty, governance, and measurable value across the...

When Microsoft CEO Satya Nadella stood on a Delhi stage and distilled a provocative metric — “tokens per rupee per watt” — he did more than coin a catchy phrase; he framed a data‑centre–centric lens for how nations might measure their readiness for the AI era. That formula ties three concrete...

Alibaba’s new Qwen chatbot opened with a bang — and immediately stumbled into the two uncomfortable truths that define any major Chinese tech launch for Western audiences: dazzling technical scale, and strict political guardrails that shape what the system will not say. Background / Overview...

Microsoft’s latest push to reassure European customers — promising that EU customer data “stays in Europe” — is a major public-relations and engineering milestone, but it does not erase legal, architectural, or operational trade-offs that organisations and regulators must still confront...

Microsoft’s latest week of product news read like a study in contrasts: aggressive technical expansion on one hand, and regulatory and security friction on the other — a dynamic that highlights how rapidly AI-driven productivity is reshaping both product roadmaps and the legal, privacy, and...

Oneclick and Exoscale’s new Windows 11 DaaS offering promises a fast, secure, and European‑sovereign route off the Windows 10 cliff—but the real value for IT teams will depend on careful architecture, contractual clarity, and realistic TCO planning. Background / Overview Microsoft’s formal end...

The week’s major cloud outage — centered on Amazon Web Services’ US‑EAST‑1 cluster — sent a clear message to businesses and consumers: the internet’s plumbing is now concentrated in a handful of corporate hands, and when one of those hands falters the effect ripples through everything from games...

The internet you use every day — from messaging apps and streaming services to online banking and government portals — runs on racks of servers, miles of fibre and a handful of companies that operate vast, power-hungry data centres: the cloud is the invisible engine of the web. Recent reporting...

Space42’s decision to list its AI‑powered geospatial intelligence platform, GIQ, on the Microsoft Azure Marketplace is a strategic moment for the company and the broader geospatial industry — it lowers the commercial and technical barriers to satellite‑derived intelligence, ties a national...

Utimaco’s new Enterprise Key Manager as a Service (EKMaaS) has moved from product announcement to active market positioning, offering Microsoft Azure customers a hardware-backed route to maintain full control of encryption keys through Microsoft’s Bring Your Own Key (BYOK) and External Key...

Utimaco’s move to offer an Enterprise Key Manager as a Service that integrates with Microsoft Azure marks a pragmatic advance for organisations wrestling with data sovereignty, regulatory compliance, and cryptographic control in cloud-first architectures. The packaged service promises a fully...