Evolving cloud strategy: Why sovereignty and regional autonomy matter more than ever

As enterprises accelerate their digital transformation journeys, they are facing a growing challenge around modernizing infrastructure while maintaining control, compliance and performance across increasingly distributed environments. The convergence of IT and OT systems, historically managed in silos, can become key to unlocking new operational agility, real-time insights and secure automation. However, with the creation of data shifting from centralized data centers to the edge, the conventional approach of implementing sovereign clouds may no longer work and a new dimension of sovereignty is emerging that demands a fundamental change in cloud strategy.

In mission-critical use cases across aerospace, defense, industrial/manufacturing, energy and healthcare, the stakes are high. These industries require infrastructure that not only meets performance and reliability standards but also comply with strict regulatory requirements. Traditional cloud models, built around centralized architectures, can fall short in delivering the regional autonomy and processing locality that are needed by these organizations ...