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 →

Microsoft EU Strategy, Intune & Defender Updates, MCRA & SharePoint 2019 End of Life

Welcome to the latest instalment of Cloudy with a Chance of Insights, a bi-weekly podcast dedicated to exploring developments in the Microsoft cloud ecosystem and related technologies. In this episode, hosts Richard Hogan, David Rowley, and Cyrus Irandoust examine key topics shaping Microsoft’s technological landscape.

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 →

Is Red Teaming the Perfect Use Case for Gen AI?

In general, enterprise adoption of Generative AI, has probably not been as rapid as most people were expecting.  There are several reasons for this, some of which I have discussed previously, such as concerns over data security, privacy, bias etc.  One area that I have not really covered previously is around use cases, I think... Continue Reading →

The Demise of End-to-End Encryption in the UK: Implications for Cloud Providers

Following a request from the UK Government to enable access to encrypted data stored in Apple’s iCloud (1), Apple has announced that its Advanced Data Protection feature, which offers end-to-end encryption for iCloud users, will no longer be available to new users in the UK (2). This feature will eventually be removed for existing users,... Continue Reading →

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