Public cloud and AI adoption are driving sharp increases in energy consumption across enterprise IT infrastructure even as geopolitical instability and fuel supply shocks are making power availability and pricing less predictable. As a result, cloud and on‑premises energy efficiency is no longer just a cost or sustainability issue, but a strategic risk concern. Tech leaders who act now can reduce their exposure to energy shocks while improving performance, resilience, and long‑term efficiency. Read this report to understand how to reduce the energy consumption and emissions of your hybrid cloud deployments.

Google Cloud Next 2026 opened with Thomas Kurian declaring the end of the AI pilot era and Sundar Pichai comparing the enterprise refrain of last year (“Can we build an agent?”) to today’s: “How do we manage thousands of them?” Google Cloud Next ’26 answers the second question with a single product story: Gemini Enterprise […]

In our evaluation of sovereign cloud platform vendors, we identified the most significant ones and researched, analyzed, and scored them. This report shows how each vendor measures up and helps you select the right one for your needs.

Minimum viable sovereignty (MVS) is a pragmatic, cost-effective approach to digital sovereignty, focusing on essential actions rather than tackling a full-scale scope. Organizations should tailor their sovereignty measures to their risk appetite, industry, and geopolitical context, covering infrastructure, software, data, people, network, and AI. MVS enables organizations to balance compliance, risk, and budget without starting from scratch.

At KubeCon Europe 2026, Kubernetes’ AI story shifted from “add support” to “rebuild the platform.” AI conformance, upstream GPU orchestration, shared inference blueprints, and in-platform governance are setting the new defaults.

Digital sovereignty isn’t a compliance checkbox — it’s a complex, yet achievable, risk-management approach that enables you to achieve minimum viable sovereignty (MVS). This assessment tool helps tech executives assess their digital sovereignty posture against eight dimensions: strategic sovereignty; legal and jurisdictional sovereignty; data and AI sovereignty; operational sovereignty; hardware supply chain sovereignty; software supply chain sovereignty; R&D sovereignty; and security and compliance sovereignty. This tool also helps tech execs make IT decisions, enable continuous improvements, and ensure the IT organization can adapt to evolving sovereignty and risk‑mitigation requirements.

What Is The AI Divide In Data Centers, Semiconductors, And Sovereignty? The AI divide represents a strategic inflection point for global business. Those without these resources will fall behind, not just technologically but competitively. Productivity, customer engagement, and decision-making is widening across industries and geographies, creating systemic issues for companies that fail to invest, such as: […]

The rise of genAI and growing geopolitical tensions are reshaping Europe’s cloud strategy. Concerns over sovereignty, resilience, and hyperscaler dependence are mounting as US tech giants aggressively offer free AI pilots, prompting European firms to question long-term lock-in. Distinct labor practices, union influence, and swift regulatory action make Europe’s tech landscape uniquely reactive to political shifts — often at odds with US norms. In response, European enterprises are doubling down on private cloud, open-source tools, and sovereign cloud platforms. This report explores how AI-native adoption, sovereignty priorities, and economic nationalism are driving a new phase of cloud evolution in Europe.

At the end of each year, we grade our cloud predictions. We use this report to hold us accountable and assess each prediction against what actually happened. In 2025, economic volatility, genAI, and tariffs dominated the tech market. Cloud providers made massive bets on AI data centers and infrastructure build-outs to support genAI workloads. Neoclouds used VC support, open-source AI projects, and NVIDIA chips to snatch premium enterprise end users. Still, the AI craze has left doubts on whether these investments are ahead of their time. This report outlines which 2025 predictions we got right, wrong, or somewhere in between.

As global tensions continue to rise and cloud adoption accelerates, digital sovereignty has become a board-level topic. Tech execs must now modernize infrastructure, protect autonomy, ensure compliance, and manage geopolitical risk at the same time. As we outlined in a recent report, 2025 showed a clear trend: Digital sovereignty is reshaping public cloud strategy across […]