Dario Maisto
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VMware Explore Paris 2025: Our Take On Private AI And Private Cloud Sovereignty
VMware Explore’s 2025 Paris event showcased the future of VMware Private AI and cloud sovereignty with the launch of VCF 9.0. From sovereign AI use cases to disconnected cloud operations, the event highlighted VMware’s evolving role in enabling secure, compliant infrastructure across Europe.
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Sovereignty Is The New Differentiator: Google Cloud’s Strategic Shift
Sovereign cloud used to be synonymous with compliance and data protection. But as organizations tighten their sovereign policies and demand greater control over their data and cloud infrastructure, the narrative is changing.
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Technology & Innovation Summit EMEA Review: Cyber Resilience In The Age Of Mayhem
In a time defined by AI-led disruption and economic volatility, innovation can feel as exhilarating as it is exhausting. Learn how to navigate the path to cyber resilience in an age of mayhem in this review of Forrester’s recent Technology & Innovation Summit EMEA.
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Minimum Viable Sovereignty: A Smarter Path For Tech Leaders
Sovereignty is no longer optional. Geopolitical tensions, tariffs, and regulatory pressures have made digital sovereignty a permanent concern for tech leaders. But chasing full sovereignty across your IT stack can lead to decision paralysis, ballooning costs, and operational complexity. Instead, organizations should aim for what Forrester calls minimum viable sovereignty — a pragmatic, risk-based approach […]
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Forrester’s 2025 Technology Strategy Impact Award Winner And Runners-Up For EMEA
Forrester is proud to announce mBank as the winner of the 2025 Technology Strategy Impact Award for EMEA, with TBC Bank and Philip Morris International as runners-up.
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Tencent Targets Overseas Markets With Its TCE Sovereign Cloud Offering
Find out more about Tencent’s sovereign cloud solution, Tencent Cloud Enterprise, which it is using to pursue overseas business expansion.
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A Tale Of Two Engines: Meet The New Tencent
At the fifth Tencent Cloud International Summit, as part of the company’s wider Global Digital Ecosystem Summit in Shenzhen, Tencent made its strategic direction clear: It is accelerating two engines to drive future growth.
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Navigating The Geopolitical Cloud: ASEAN’s Diverse Approach To Digital Sovereignty
What we’re now observing in Southeast Asia is a more nuanced and strategically driven “diverse cloud” approach that directly addresses concerns around US foreign policy uncertainty and the imperative for localized data control.
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From Digital Sovereignty Platforms To Sovereign Cloud Platforms: Three Reasons For A Title Change
Learn how increased complexity and additional market factors led us to rethink the title of our upcoming Forrester Landscape report on digital sovereignty platforms
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What International Customers Should Know About Microsoft’s Sovereign Cloud Offerings
Given the increasingly volatile geopolitical environment, Microsoft customers are requesting more details on the company’s digital sovereignty posture. Consequently, Microsoft has now updated its sovereign cloud offerings to include details for Sovereign Public Cloud, Sovereign Private Cloud, and National Partner Cloud. Find out what this means and how it may impact your strategy in this post.
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Geopolitical Volatility Puts Digital Sovereignty Center Stage
Mounting geopolitical pressures have made digital sovereignty an everyday talking point as organizations and individuals seek more autonomy from foreign government dependency and potential influence. Learn about new sovereign options and technology choices that will shape a new sovereign tech landscape in incremental steps over the next decade.
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The European Sovereign Cloud Day Forecasts Stormy Weather For The Cloud Ecosystem
Forum Europe’s third annual European Sovereign Cloud Policy and Industry Day took place in Brussels on June 3, 2025, gathering representatives from cloud vendors, service providers, and industry experts, as well as members of the European Parliament.
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Choosing The Right Public Cloud Platform In 2025: What’s At Stake?
Selecting a public cloud platform is no longer just about technical fit — it’s about strategic alignment. Learn three key strategic differentiators that should guide final decisions in this preview of our new report Buyer’s Guide: Public Cloud Platforms, 2025.
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Microsoft Races To Reassure Anxious Tech Execs In Europe
Increasing geopolitical volatility has characterized the last three years in Europe and is reaching new heights. Learn what Microsoft has committed to do and what tech executives should watch out for.
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Google Cloud Next 2025: Agentic AI Stack, Multimodality, And Sovereignty
Loads of news came out of a hot Google Cloud Next 2025 in Las Vegas. The most notable announcements? Sovereign AI solutions on-prem, developer innovations that meet timely needs, very applicable multimodality for content and CX, and new elements for building the enterprise agentic AI stack.
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Sovereign AI: NexGen Cloud Gets Funds For Its Infrastructure In Europe
Cloud vendors are focusing on bringing AI solutions to their customers in ways that addresses sovereignty concerns rising from the mounting geopolitical instability globally. Just in the first two weeks of April, we have seen this at KubeCon 2025 Europe and at Google Cloud Next 2025 in Las Vegas.
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KubeCon 2025: Technology Resilience, Sovereignty, And Security In An Era Of Political Change
KubeCon + CloudNativeCon Europe 2025 in London underscored that the cloud-native ecosystem is operating within a complex and increasingly uncertain global landscape.
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What We Saw At AWS re:Invent 2024
AWS may have been caught off guard by the sudden rise of generative AI, but now it’s coming for the competition from every possible angle. Get our key takeaways from AWS re:Invent 2024.
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AI, FinOps, And Digital Sovereignty Lead Global Cloud Trends
Cloud continues to serve as the heart of major technology innovations, especially amid the age of AI. Learn three key trends influencing cloud adoption across global markets in this preview of our latest research on cloud trends.
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Serverless, Sovereignty, And (Of Course!) AI: Our Takeaways From The 2024 Public Cloud Platform Forrester Wave™ Evaluations
AI rightly has taken center stage in the public cloud platform market, but it’s not the only major transformation underway. Get three key takeaways from our most recent Wave™ reports on public cloud platforms.
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