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 […]

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, […]

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 […]

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 […]

For any government agency, unpredictability is a central challenge. We are now discovering that nowhere is that more true than in building and securing AI infrastructure. The extraordinary complexity of federal agency IT architectures and the external threats to those architectures pose distinct challenges to any security modernization effort. Like most enterprises, these are likely […]

IDC Guest Post (Sponsored by Broadcom) In today’s rapidly evolving and ever-complex digital landscape, the concept of digital sovereignty is no longer confined to niche regulatory discussions but has matured into a business-critical imperative focused on organizational autonomy and self-sufficiency. The geopolitical and economic upheavals witnessed in 2025 have amplified the urgency, positioning control over […]

The vision of unrestricted cloud adoption, once heralded as the pinnacle of digital transformation, is now encountering significant obstacles. This shift is primarily driven by mounting geopolitical risks, increasingly stringent regulatory mandates, and the unavoidable realization that uncompromising data control is essential for sensitive workloads—a necessity amplified by the accelerating AI revolution. European organizations, in […]

Cloud is the default operating model for enterprises today, but adoption and value are often constrained by organizational structure. According to the Private Cloud Outlook 2025 report, one in three IT leaders say that siloed IT teams are the top barrier to private cloud adoption. Here’s how these silos can delay progress, and how organizations […]

In today’s rapidly evolving technology landscape, customers are seeking alternatives to the public cloud that offer the same flexibility and scalability, but with greater predictability in cost, performance, and control. VMware Cloud Foundation (VCF) is emerging as the platform of choice. ​ Today, nine of the top 10 Fortune 500 companies and 87 percent of […]

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