Sovereign Clouds and the VMware Earthquake: Dependency Isn’t Just a Hyperscaler Problem
The concept of "sovereign cloud" has been making waves across Europe and beyond. Politicians talk about it. Regulators push for it. Enterprises (re-)evaluate it. On the surface, it sounds like a logical evolution: regain control, keep data within national borders, reduce exposure to foreign...
Secure Cloud Networking in OCI – Zero Trust Packet Routing
Zero Trust Packet Routing (ZPR) is Oracle Cloud Infrastructure's (OCI) move to bring the principles of zero trust to the packet level. In simple terms, it allows you to control exactly which workloads can communicate with each other, based not on IP addresses, ports, or subnets, but on high-level,...
Oracle’s EU Sovereign Cloud Is Real. AWS’s Is Still a Roadmap
The digital sovereignty debate in Europe is evolving fast. As data privacy regulations tighten and public sector requirements become more explicit, the race among hyperscalers to deliver truly sovereign infrastructure has entered a new chapter. AWS's recent unveiling of its European Sovereign...
Open Source in the Cloud Era – Still Free, but Never Cheap?
This article continues the conversation started in "Open source can help with portability and lock-in – but it is not a silver bullet", where we explored how open source technologies can reduce cloud lock-in, but aren't a universal fix. Now we go one step further. Open source software (OSS) is the...
Cloud Exit Triggers – What Happens When the Exit Button Isn’t Optional?
It is becoming clearer by the day: geopolitical realities are forcing CIOs and regulators to revisit their cloud strategy, not just for performance or innovation, but for continuity, legal control, and sovereignty. The past few years have been a story of cloud-first, then cloud-smart, and then...
Why OCI Dedicated Region Is the Missing Piece for Agentic Workloads
In my last blog post, I explored how OCI Dedicated Region helps enterprises retrofit AI workloads into their existing data centers. We discussed how bringing Oracle's cloud infrastructure on-premises addresses challenges such as GPU availability, latency, and data sovereignty, thereby removing...
Retrofitting AI Workloads with OCI Dedicated Region
As AI adoption becomes a strategic priority across nearly every industry, enterprises are discovering that scaling these workloads isn't as simple as adding more GPUs to their cloud bill. Public cloud platforms like AWS and Azure offer extensive AI infrastructure, but many organizations are now...
Why Emulating the Cloud Isn’t the Same as Being One
It's easy to mistake progress for innovation. VMware Cloud Foundation 9.0 (VCF) introduces long-awaited features like VPC-style networking, developer-centric automation, and bundled services. But let's be honest: this is not the future of cloud. This is infrastructure catching up to where the...
I focus on sovereign cloud, hybrid multi-cloud architectures, and data privacy in regulated industries.
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