Is the future of public cloud sovereign?

Brad Smith from Microsoft recently shared a blog post titled 'Microsoft's New European Digital Commitments (https://blogs.microsoft.com/on-the-issues/2025/04/30/european-digital-commitments/). This broad whitepaper covered a range of topics, including data centre expansion to provide scale for AI services and announcements around digital resiliency, security, encryption, and data and privacy commitments. However, two key points caught my attention: First, Microsoft... Continue Reading →

May 20, 2025 0

IBM X-Force Threat Intelligence Index 2025, Initial Thoughts

IBM produces two reports every year focused on cybersecurity: the X-Force Threat Intelligence Index and the Cost of a Data Breach Report. Both are invaluable sources of data for anyone interested in cybersecurity. The first of these reports, the Threat Intelligence Index, was released on April 17th. While I have not digested everything it contains,... Continue Reading →

April 29, 2025 0

AI and Data Security: A New Concern?

Are the data security challenges of today different to those of the past? Introduction One of the areas impacting the adoption of Generative AI (substitute Generative for Agentic if you prefer) is that organisations are concerned about the status of data security across their estate, especially in the unstructured areas where AI can arguably provide... Continue Reading →

March 31, 2025 0

Why do Cloud Migration Projects Fail?

As regular readers will know, I have posted on several elements of this topic previously, but I decided to wrap this up with a more holistic (I do dislike that word) view, based on my experience of working in this area for the past 15 years or so. What is Failure, or to put it... Continue Reading →

March 17, 2025 1

The Importance of Cybersecurity in Cloud Migrations

One of the benefits of being on the autistic spectrum is that ideas tend to linger in my mind far longer than they probably should. As a result, I am still quite obsessed with The Stack article (https://www.thestack.technology/warren-buffetts-geico-repatriates-work-from-the-cloud-continues-ambitious-infrastructure-overhaul/) I read about a month ago, which discussed cloud repatriation. It provided an example from Geico, where... Continue Reading →