Dario Maisto
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Scaling Agentic AI Globally: Tencent Connects Experience, Engineering, And Ecosystem
At last year’s Tencent Cloud International Summit, we described Tencent’s strategy as a tale of two engines: AI as the intelligent engine and globalization as the expansion engine. A year later, those engines remain important, but they are becoming more closely connected. Agentic AI is moving from models and experiments into the everyday environments where […]
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Predictions 2027: Cloud’s AI Race Gets Messier
AI is reshaping the cloud market as providers face intensifying global competition, industry consolidation, and growing infrastructure constraints. In 2027, cloud leaders will need to balance rapid innovation with portability, resilience, and cost discipline.
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Europe’s Sovereign Tech Ambitions Face Their Hardest Test: Scaling Beyond Malmö (From The Matrix Conference 2026)
Sovereign Communications Need More Than Sovereign Technology At the Matrix Conference, European government and defense deployments showed why digital sovereignty increasingly depends on federation, open standards, sustainable ecosystems, and, above all, adoption. Digital sovereignty discussions often start with a familiar question: Where’s my data hosted? But the Matrix Conference in Malmö highlighted a much broader […]
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Sovereign AI Will Decide The Future Of Sovereign Cloud Services
The sovereign cloud services (SCS) market reveals a fundamental shift: Sovereign AI is becoming the dominant force shaping buyer requirements. This change is being driven by growing geopolitical uncertainty, expanding regulatory obligations, and increasing dependence on cloud and AI platforms. Technology leaders are under pressure to reduce exposure to external dependencies, strengthen operational resilience, and […]
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TalosCon 2026: The Winning AI Strategy Is To Preserve Choice
Enterprises spent the last decade reducing risk through multicloud and resilience strategies. AI could bring that risk back. One of the strongest themes at TalosCon 2026 was the increasing concentration of AI capabilities, infrastructure, and investment among a relatively small number of providers. For technology leaders, the bigger concern isn’t competition but rather dependency. Every […]
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Open-Weight Models Are Proliferating, But The Platform Race Matters More
Last week, AI startup Reflection released a new open weight model, Beam, claiming parity with leading Chinese open models and at only “a fraction of the token cost and inference time.” Days later, Mistral introduced open-weight model Mistral Large 4 (ML4), nicknamed Le Chonk in reference to its 1 trillion parameters. Taken together, these models […]
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My Take On Open Source And Sovereignty From Open Source Summit Europe 2026
At Open Source Summit Europe 2026, one message surfaced repeatedly: Organizations and governments that merely consume open source remain dependent on others to shape their future. Those that govern, maintain, secure, and sustain open-source ecosystems gain influence, resilience, sovereignty, and strategic leverage. The conversation around sovereignty is evolving within and outside the open-source community: The […]
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CIOs: XaaS Doesn’t Mean You Need Bigger Budgets
Global tech spend grew 30% from $4.0 trillion in 2020 to $5.2 trillion in 2025. Yet data from Information Services Group (ISG) indicates that spend per user was flat. In fact, the global spend per user benchmark from ISG fluctuated between $15,000 and $16,000 each year from 2020 and 2025. This suggests to CIOs that […]
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Sovereign AI Is About Control, Not Localization
As artificial intelligence moves from experimentation to enterprisewide deployment, sovereignty concerns now touch every layer of the AI stack. Organizations are no longer evaluating AI based solely on model performance, innovation speed, or cost. They are increasingly asking whether they can control how AI systems are built, governed, operated, and evolved. This shift is transforming […]
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What You Need To Know From Forrester’s Global Sovereignty Forecast, 2025 To 2030
In some countries, the debate around technological sovereignty has been framed as a race toward independence. Governments have invested billions in sovereign cloud initiatives, national AI programs, semiconductor manufacturing, and critical infrastructure under the implicit assumption that sovereignty means self-sufficiency. But that assumption is detached from reality.
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Google Cloud Next 2026: The End Of The AI Pilot Era
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 […]
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KubeCon Europe 2026: The Not-So-Unseen Engine Behind AI Innovation?
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.
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Data Centers, Semiconductors, And Sovereignty: The Upcoming AI Divide
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: […]
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Digital Sovereignty: Why Tech Execs Must Act Now
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 […]
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What We Saw At AWS re:Invent 2025
The goal of this year’s event was to position AWS as a newly transformed, AI-native cloud that’s ready right now. Here’s a closer look at the key announcements and developments.
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Key Takeaways From The Google Cloud Digital Sovereignty Summit 2025
Europe is racing to balance AI innovation with digital sovereignty. At the Google Digital Sovereignty Summit, leaders discussed sovereign cloud solutions, partnerships, and policies shaping secure, compliant growth. Discover why sovereignty is now a business imperative and how Google Cloud is driving this transformation.
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Our Highlights From Infosys’ EMEA Confluence 2025
Infosys’ EMEA Confluence 2025 in Monte Carlo spotlighted AI innovation, cloud sovereignty, and IT transformation. Discover key themes such as Topaz Fabric, AI ROI, and Infosys’ growth in Europe.
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AWS Outage, Nexperia Seizure, And The EU’s Cloud Sovereignty Framework: The Battle For Digital Sovereignty Is On!
In times of calm, but especially in times of chaos, risk management strategies and their execution must be dictated by context and control. Prioritizing key risks and crafting appropriate responses is essential to keeping the business going.
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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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