sovereign cloud

Europe’s scramble for “digital sovereignty” has moved from regulatory rhetoric to procurement reality: large firms and public bodies are actively reclassifying which workloads must stay under EU legal and operational control, and that reclassification is reshaping cloud strategy across the...

France has announced it will replace a patchwork of U.S. video-conferencing tools used across the public sector with a domestically developed platform called Visio, and has set a target to generalize the service across all state services by 2027. Background / Overview The decision, announced...

When a sector’s wiring runs across continents and under oceans, a single act of geopolitics can ripple from the diplomatic backrooms to the redundant power feeds under your office floor — and the data center industry is precisely that kind of transcontinental project, fragile at the seams and...

Canberra’s business landscape closed 2025 having turned a series of quiet policy shifts, local scale-up investments and pragmatic innovations into a year that made it plain: Canberra means business — and it meant more than the usual public‑sector rhythms. Background Canberra’s commercial...

Kuwait and its Gulf neighbours are positioning themselves to become one of the world’s next major nodes for AI infrastructure and sovereign cloud services, driven by deliberate public‑private programs, abundant energy capacity, and large sovereign investors willing to underwrite the heavy...

Airbus has quietly opened a door that could force Europe’s cloud market to stop being a niche political argument and start acting like industrial infrastructure: the company plans to tender a multi‑year contract next January to migrate mission‑critical workloads — including ERP, manufacturing...

Airbus’s public shift — framed in several recent reports as a move “towards farewell to big tech” and a call for an EU sovereign cloud for data — crystallises a defining debate for Europe’s digital infrastructure: how to reconcile the scale and innovation of hyperscalers with the legal...

Airbus’s public pivot — described in some policy and industry discussions as a push “towards farewell to big tech” and a call for an EU sovereign cloud for data — is the latest and most emblematic sign that Europe’s industrial players, regulators and cloud incumbents are converging on a new...

Microsoft’s move from software giant to a vertically integrated infrastructure powerhouse has crossed a threshold: Azure is now being architected as a purpose-built utility for industrial-scale AI, with implications that ripple across technology, energy, regulation, and geopolitics. Background...

Cognizant and Microsoft have announced a multi‑year strategic expansion of their partnership to co‑build industry‑grade AI solutions, embed agentic AI and Microsoft Copilot capabilities into mission‑critical workflows, and jointly pursue large-scale deals across financial services, healthcare...

Microsoft’s India push — a multi‑billion dollar investment, partner-led Copilot deployments and a renewed emphasis on sovereign cloud and skilling — dominated the December 18, 2025 current‑affairs feed and reframed many of the week’s other stories about jobs, health tech, infrastructure and...

Microsoft’s surprise stagecraft in Bengaluru this month has rewritten the enterprise AI playbook: Satya Nadella announced that Microsoft is pairing a US$17.5 billion, multi‑year investment in India’s cloud and AI infrastructure with coordinated strategic partnerships with Cognizant, Infosys, TCS...

As India’s AI market moves from pilot projects to national-scale deployments, the battleground for compute, compliance, and cost has shifted decisively to local infrastructure — and the vendors that control it. This feature evaluates the top 10 AI infrastructure platforms most relevant to Indian...

Microsoft’s India AI tour reached a watershed moment in Bengaluru when Satya Nadella announced that Cognizant, Infosys, TCS and Wipro will partner with Microsoft to operationalize agentic AI and ramp Microsoft 365 Copilot deployments — a coordinated push Microsoft says will put more than 50,000...

Microsoft’s latest push to make AI a default layer of enterprise work just got a shot of oxygen from four of India’s largest systems integrators, a move that signals both rapid industrial-scale adoption of Copilot and a major expansion of Microsoft’s partner-led strategy for agentic AI across...

Microsoft’s CEO delivered a blunt message in New Delhi this week: the company is moving fast to supply the compute, cloud and “sovereign” infrastructure India says it needs for an AI-first future, and it’s backing that claim with one of the largest region-specific commitments in recent cloud...

Microsoft’s latest push to bring AI, resiliency, and sovereignty together in a single, unified cloud story is more than incremental product updates — it’s a strategic pivot that gives organizations new choices for running mission‑critical systems where control, compliance, and uptime can't be...

SAP’s new EU AI Cloud is a bold attempt to package sovereignty, scale and partner-driven model choice into a single enterprise offering for Europe’s regulated customers, combining SAP’s sovereign cloud stack and local operations with integrated models from Cohere, Mistral AI, OpenAI and others...

Defence has begun rolling Microsoft’s Copilot across its protected-level network, placing the department among the largest Australian agencies to give frontline staff ready access to generative AI inside the government’s highest routine workplace environment — a move that promises productivity...

Microsoft’s November 17 slate reads like an instruction manual for a company that has moved from software-first to full-stack AI infrastructure: new enterprise agent rollouts and Copilot features, tighter cloud‑sovereignty offers in Europe, a public preview for the Exchange admin API, a major...