Technologies

A shifting cloud landscape Across Europe, the conversation around cloud strategy is changing. Growing regulatory pressure, geopolitical uncertainty and fatigue with hyperscaler platforms are driving organisations to re-evaluate their IT infrastructure models. For many, the answer is clear – regain control. As organisations seek greater data locality, flexibility and autonomy, demand for sovereign private cloud […]

If you’re still shuffling data one record at a time, you’re wasting CPU and leaving serious performance on the table.

In today’s data-driven world, organizations face increasing pressure to meet stringent compliance requirements and data sovereignty regulations. ​This is particularly true in highly regulated industries like healthcare, where the stakes are high, and the risks of non-compliance can lead to significant fines, reputational damage, and even threats to patient safety. ​In this article, we’ll take […]

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Many customers are buying AI systems originally designed for research labs and trying to integrate them into production environments, only to wind up with a bad case of AI buyer’s remorse.  Once these boxes land in the data center, the AI team or data science team may be thrilled, but I can’t say the same […]

Futurum recently published a report on the shift from public-cloud-centric strategies to modern private cloud platforms that balance operational agility with data sovereignty. While public cloud adoption historically drove agility, it has exposed critical shortcomings regarding control and jurisdictional immunity, particularly under European mandates like GDPR, DORA, and the EU AI Act. As Futurum reports, […]

I’m finding that technologists in and out of government are excited and curious about agentic AI and the impact it could have on streamlining software development. Agentic AI refers to a type of artificial intelligence designed to not only respond to chatbot queries but also to perform tasks autonomously, taking actions based on user input […]

CCS Guest Blog Tests, Interoperability and Certification This article builds on the definitions and procurement levers set out in my previous blog post, Turning Sovereignty into Action: Principles and Policy Levers. It sets out the pass-or-fail checks and pragmatic certification approach that translate principles into outcomes. Make Reversibility and Interoperability First-Class Tests The problems of […]

Here’s what keeps CIOs in regulated industries up at night: You can build AI data collectors in minutes today using open source tools like LlamaIndex and Model Context Protocol (MCP). But if employees are going out and doing this on their own, you run the risk of massive exposure—not just from a security perspective, but […]

CCS Guest Blog European policy on cloud and AI is at an inflection point. The debate has matured beyond slogans  to the complex tests that decide whether sovereignty becomes a real capability or remains a badge  worn in presentations.  Recent analyses of EU competitiveness argue the bloc faces challenges in productivity and  investment, with fragmentation […]

Today European organizations are demanding solutions that offer secure, resilient, and sovereign cloud alternatives. At our company, ITQ, a leading specialist in hybrid cloud, cloud native, digital workspace solutions, and private AI, and a Pinnacle Solution Provider Partner for Broadcom, headquartered in the Netherlands, we work with customers to meet the latest compliance and security […]

The exploding adoption of AI coding assistants is boosting developer productivity and accelerating time-to-market, yielding substantial returns on investment. These AI-native practices increase developer productivity and speed up delivery, and they also facilitate more frequent product iterations, leading to faster innovation loops.  Enabling developers across the company  to transform their software engineering practices by leveraging […]