SDxCentral: In Digital Sovereignty, T Stands for Trust and Telecom

via SDxCentral

"In a recent Accenture survey of almost 2,000 business and government leaders, 61% said they were more likely to seek sovereign technology solutions with the rise of Al and geopolitical risks. But while sovereignty is often associated with efforts from Europe to protect the continent's digital backbone, the survey's results consisted of data from 28 countries, spanning the Middle East, Africa (EMEA), North America, and Asia."

Bleu, red, and white

"Orange arguably fired the starting pistol in the sovereignty space with Bleu, the platform it formed in 2024 with French SI Capgemini, which provides a Microsoft Azure-based sovereign cloud within France. Ranyard said that while the U.K. is still less focused on sovereign cloud than mainland Europe, he has been surprised as of late by growing British business awareness and interest when it comes to projects like Bleu."

This perspective comes from Simon Dumbleton, European CTO at World Wide Technology (WWT), a systems integrator with extensive experience in building cloud environments for telecommunications. He noted that the company is seeing increased interest from UK and broader European organizations in incorporating hyperscalers into sovereign cloud solutions.