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Principle that data should be stored, processed, and governed under the laws of its originating jurisdiction, not foreign-hosted cloud providers.
GTT launched Defense Halo, which re-checks firewall and device configs whenever they change and ranks known vulnerabilities by the assets a customer runs. For the team rolling it out, catching a bad config sooner only pays off if someone can also ship the fix sooner.
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IBM's Bob coding agent now runs air-gapped inside customer networks on two supported local models, Nvidia's Nemotron and Poolside's Laguna. Banks can keep their code in-house, though fully local work runs on a shorter model list than the Claude, Mistral and Granite mix IBM pitches for Bob.
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Animikii has signed a pilot with Manitoba's Sandy Bay Ojibway First Nation to host and govern the community's history data locally on its Niiwin platform. Canadian firms worried about sovereignty can study its design now, though the price and term were not disclosed.
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NetApp's Keystone Sovereign lets customers pick where storage hardware sits while metadata and customer support stay in Europe. Buyers can now ask any storage vendor who can reach their telemetry and operations, as well as where the data is stored.
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Uptime Institute's survey puts 45% of IT workloads on company-owned infrastructure, unchanged in a year when hyperscalers reached 48% of global capacity. Budgets built on Synergy's forecast of 19% on-premise capacity by 2031 would retire more in-house hardware than that workload split supports.
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Palantir's NHS Federated Data Platform deal has a break clause that would end it in 2027, but three Whitehall sources told WIRED the changeover has to be decided within weeks. The rest of its £670m UK book is untouched.
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More than 40 UK police forces hold sensitive data on Microsoft Azure, and according to a Guardian investigation the 2017 assessment that cleared the move already recorded that US government insiders would be able to see it.
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Chen Yixin's essay in the state magazine China Cyberspace argues that Party control and government oversight of AI must be tightened further, and the first risk he lists is a fabricated clip of Xi Jinping causing social turmoil.
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The convertible note accounts for 84.5 percent of the $290 million Cylake has raised, and the product it funds is still a design-partner build with general availability promised for 2027. The next financing sets the conversion price.
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A joint declaration signed on 10 September puts about 1 GW of new data centres inside a EUR 40bn Emirati pledge to Germany, with no builder, location or timeline given for any of it. The signed company agreements in the same document total EUR 9.356bn.
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A dev.to post credits a roughly 42x drop in token use on a code-editing workload to deleting an agent's reread loop. The gateway it recommends can only route whole calls, and the two levers are different sizes.
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8x8 asked 2,501 technology leaders who answers when an AI agent errs, and UK respondents pointed at themselves. In the public sector, 71% also say the contracts they already signed are what stops them changing platform.
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The partnership removes the external API hop for enterprises that cannot let sensitive records leave the perimeter, which also moves the inference bill off someone else's per-token pricing and onto hardware the customer has to buy and keep busy.
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Bloomberg reports Kuala Lumpur is evaluating Huawei's Ascend 910C for a programme built to keep government data beyond the reach of the US Cloud Act, which makes this a decision about jurisdiction rather than price.
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Hyperscalers absorb about two-thirds of AI outlay, so rack-scale kit is now packaged for sovereign clouds, neoclouds and enterprises that cannot staff a GPU fabric team.
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The CNCF's argument is that the CLOUD Act reaches European soil, so "our servers are in Frankfurt" buys residency and not control. The boundary that holds is infrastructure you can run yourself.
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The London company sells a queryable graph of what exists across an estate and what nobody is watching. Its financial history is the more unusual part of the story.
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