sovereign cloud

Microsoft’s decision to “cease and disable” a set of Azure cloud and AI subscriptions to an Israeli Ministry of Defense unit after a high‑profile investigation has forced a reckoning about what commercial cloud providers can — and must — do when sovereign customers appear to use powerful tools...

Microsoft has quietly disabled specific Azure cloud and AI services used by a unit of Israel’s Ministry of Defense after an internal review found activity that supported reporting alleging the technology was used to ingest and analyze large volumes of intercepted Palestinian communications...

Space42’s announcement at the Dubai World Congress marks a major step toward building a sovereign mobility cloud in the UAE — a purpose-built, sovereign-enabled platform for hosting HD mapping, telematics, fleet operations, traffic management and digital twins — backed by Core42’s Sovereign...

OpenAI, SAP and Microsoft have announced a three‑way initiative — marketed as OpenAI for Germany — that promises to deliver OpenAI’s foundation models inside a German‑operated sovereign cloud run by SAP’s Delos Cloud and built on Microsoft Azure infrastructure, with an initial capacity target of...

Space42’s announcement that it will build the UAE’s first Sovereign Mobility Cloud, enabled by Core42’s sovereign public cloud platform and underpinned by Microsoft Azure, marks a notable push to fuse national data sovereignty with large-scale autonomous-mobility infrastructure and HD mapping...

Space42’s announcement that it will build what it calls the UAE’s first Sovereign Mobility Cloud with Microsoft and Core42 is a strategic move that crystallizes a broader regional trend: combine hyperscaler AI and platform capabilities with locally controlled governance layers to host, operate...

OpenAI and SAP have announced a high-profile partnership — branded "OpenAI for Germany" — to deliver a sovereign AI service for Germany’s public sector by combining OpenAI’s models with SAP’s Delos Cloud and Microsoft Azure infrastructure, with a planned rollout in 2026 and an initial...

NTT DATA’s creation of a dedicated Global Business Unit for Microsoft Cloud marks a decisive shift in how large systems integrators package cloud, AI and sovereignty capabilities for regulated enterprises — and it signals a coming wave of sovereign cloud demand across APAC that technology and...

Space42’s announcement that it has partnered with Microsoft and Core42 to build what it calls the UAE’s first Sovereign Mobility Cloud marks a pivotal moment in how the Emirates plans to host, govern and accelerate mobility and autonomous systems at scale. The joint offering positions itself as...

A new Principled Technologies (PT) study — circulated as a press release and picked up by partner outlets — argues that adopting a single‑cloud approach for AI on Microsoft Azure can produce concrete benefits in performance, manageability, and cost predictability, while also leaving room for...

Title: Huawei’s R.I.S.E.: A Calculated Push to Put a Chinese Stamp on the Government Cloud — and Take on Azure, AWS Lede At a summit in Shanghai this month, Huawei formally unveiled “R.I.S.E,” a reference architecture for a National Government Cloud designed expressly for public-sector digital...

The conversation around artificial intelligence and work has moved from abstract speculation to hard-edged debate — and a recent poll-driven piece on Windows Central captures that anxiety in stark terms while pointing to concrete research showing which roles are already feeling pressure...

Ottawa’s recent disclosure that federal departments have spent nearly $1.3 billion on cloud services from U.S. hyperscalers since 2021 — with more than a billion of that directed to Microsoft and the Department of National Defence (DND) confirming mission‑critical workloads running on Amazon Web...

Ottawa’s recent disclosure that the federal government has spent nearly $1.3 billion on cloud services from U.S. providers since 2021 — with more than a billion of that directed to Microsoft and portions of that budget underpinning what the Department of National Defence calls “mission‑critical”...

TierPoint’s announcement that it has earned the Microsoft Solutions Partner designation for Private Cloud marks a notable step in the ongoing normalization of Azure-consistent private cloud offerings—and signals that major service providers are now formally recognized for running cloud-native...

India’s digital backbone is more dependent on US-controlled software, platforms and cloud services than most citizens realize — and that dependence now reads as a strategic vulnerability in the eyes of national security analysts and independent researchers. Background India’s public discourse...

Tata Consultancy Services has signed a Memorandum of Understanding with the Centre for Development of Advanced Computing (C‑DAC) to jointly research and build components of what both organisations describe as India’s sovereign cloud — a domestic, OpenStack‑based cloud stack aimed at hosting...

OpenAI and Nvidia are preparing a major push into physical infrastructure in two of the world’s most important AI markets — the United Kingdom and India — in moves that crystallize a new phase of the AI arms race where chips, power and real estate matter as much as algorithms. Early reports say...

The confrontation at Microsoft’s Redmond campus in August and the weeks of escalation that followed have turned a previously quiet internal dispute into what may be the most consequential labor story in the U.S. this year: current and former Microsoft employees organized under the banner No...

Microsoft’s latest internal shake-up has collapsed two debates that have run through corporate tech since the pandemic: how much power employers should have over employee speech, and how far the hybrid workplace experiment goes before organizations insist on physical presence as a business...