Recent report published by IBM (link below):
Digital sovereignty in the era of hybrid cloud and AI (PDF)
Key details:
- Digital sovereignty is appearing on more and more boardroom agendas. Every strategic decision-from adopting cloud architecture to AI deployment-is now inseparable from questions about who ultimately influences and controls an organization's systems and data. Sovereignty, or the ability to leverage technology on one's own terms, has become a global operating principle guiding how organizations design and scale their digital foundations.
- While organizations push to scale AI effectively, many leaders cite persistent challenges that slow the adoption of these potentially transformative solutions. Common obstacles include skills shortages, aging infrastructure and uncertain return on investment (ROI). These friction points are universal and explain why sovereignty is no longer a compliance conversation but a modernization one. Leaders need to know they can adopt AI quickly and retain authority over how it operates.
- Sovereignty helps organizations establish a foundation of control and flexibility to switch providers, move workloads, govern AI transparently and verify who has access to what.
- Sovereignty must be intentional and engineered into every layer of the technology stack. Open ecosystems, hybrid‑by‑design deployments-cloud, on prem, edge, even air‑gapped-and built‑in AI governance give organizations control and flexibility over operations.
- Todor
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Todor Kostov
Director
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