Cloud faces some key challenges in 2026 - we spoke to these experts to find out what's next

Cloud computing remains an increasingly important part of business and personal internet use - and with the rise of AI and the increasing need for huge amounts of data, cloud storage is in demand now more than ever.

There will be shifts in trends, as there always are, which will bring both complications and opportunities. For 2026, there are already huge investments lined up into hyperscaler capacity, with over $1 trillion promised into data centre construction by 2030 - but there is equally a push towards data sovereignty and geopatriation.

AI is undoubtedly changing the cloud landscape, with vast amounts of data and compute needed to train and run Large Language Models (LLMs). Bigger, non-proprietary, and all purpose models are less secure and less reliable for enterprises on the whole, so smaller, often locally stored models are becoming more popular - which means on-prem storage and compute will become once ...