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that digital sovereignty — the ownership
and control of digital infrastructure, data,
technologies and IT systems — is now
changing cloud economics from a narrow
exercise in cost optimisation into a broader
assessment of control, resilience and
dependency risk.
“Digital sovereignty is making that equation
significantly more complex,” he continues.
“Organisations are increasingly being asked
to consider where data is stored, who operates
the infrastructure, which jurisdiction applies,
how dependent they are on individual
providers, and whether critical workloads
can realistically be moved if geopolitical,
regulatory or commercial conditions change.”
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THE GROWING REPATRIATION
Many organisations are increasingly
repatriating data-heavy and legacy
applications back from the public-cloud
to on-premise environments. Yet data
sovereignty is not the only driver.
A recent survey by US-based IT
research group IDC found organisations
using external cloud platform-as-a-service
systems had repatriated around 18 per cent
of their application workloads from public
cloud to on-premise environments
over the 2025–26 period. IDC said
the leading drivers are workload/application
performance (36 per cent) and security
(30 per cent).
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