The Ultimate Guide to Data sovereignty
A curated Irish edition of TechDay news, analysis, interviews, reviews, job moves, and related resources for Data sovereignty.
What to know about Data sovereignty
Data sovereignty sits at the intersection of technology, law, trust, and power. It’s about who ultimately controls data – where it’s stored, which laws apply, who can access it, and how it’s used for cloud, AI, and analytics. As organisations modernise infrastructure, adopt multi-cloud and experiment with AI, questions of residency, jurisdiction, and digital autonomy are reshaping strategies across the public sector, critical infrastructure, finance, healthcare, education, and beyond.
Stories under this tag explore the full spectrum of that shift: the rise of sovereign clouds and onshore data centres, new connectivity and subsea cables, and the emergence of “sovereign AI” factories and private AI stacks. You’ll find coverage of local cloud providers challenging hyperscalers, government-certified facilities and compliance frameworks, encryption and key-management advances, and open-source alternatives aimed at reducing lock-in. We also look at how organisations are rebalancing workloads between public cloud, private cloud, colocation and on-premise to manage cost, resilience, and regulatory risk.
Beyond infrastructure, Data sovereignty examines the human, ethical and cultural dimensions of data control. That includes Indigenous and community data governance, citizen trust in digital services, evolving privacy expectations, and the impact of new regulations from data protection laws to AI and quantum-safe standards. Interviews and opinions unpack why boards now treat data location as a strategic and geopolitical risk, how CIOs and CISOs are redesigning architectures around sovereignty-by-design, and what trusted, explainable AI looks like when it must run close to sensitive data.
Whether you’re a policymaker, technology leader, security practitioner, or business decision-maker, this tag offers a curated view of how data sovereignty is transforming cloud strategy, AI adoption, cybersecurity, and digital infrastructure. Dive in to understand the trade-offs between convenience and control, see how peers are responding to rising compliance and resilience pressures, and discover practical approaches to keeping your data, and the intelligence built on top of it, firmly under your own governance.
Irish Data sovereignty News
Regional stories with direct local relevance
ManageEngine expands in Ireland after 25% growth
Ireland is becoming a bigger profit engine for ManageEngine as the software group targets a 25% rise in local customers over two years.
ManageEngine rolls out Zia Agents for IT automation
The rollout gives enterprise IT teams autonomous task execution across service, security and endpoint management, with built-in privacy controls.
Servecentric hosts Profitsflow cloud ERP in Ireland
Local manufacturers and field service firms could cut software costs by an average of EUR 100,000 a year under the new hosting deal.
Analyst Insights
Research and market analysis connected to Data sovereignty
Extreme previews on-prem AI zones for enterprise networks
DXC partners LangChain to govern enterprise AI agents
RSA launches Agent ID for regulated AI agent control
Boomi named leader in Forrester adaptive orchestration
Thales launches UK-hosted HSM & quantum-safe Luna 8
Featured News
Interview: Cloudera says AI agents reshape zero trust
Enterprises must update identity controls as software agents generate more requests and need tightly time-limited access to sensitive systems.
Interview: Cloudera says open-ended AI spending is over
Enterprises are now demanding proof of value and tighter controls as AI budgets face scrutiny over compute costs and deployment choices.
Exclusive: ABBYY launches hybrid AI document models
Enterprises under pressure to curb AI risk and cost are being given a hybrid option that blends generative models with OCR and rules-based extraction.
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DocuWare prepared for launch of new interface, IDP, AI tool
Existing customers will get the redesigned platform free as DocuWare readies AI-driven document search and extraction tools for autumn.
Exclusive: Cloudera builds Hadoop-free future platform
Existing customers get six years of support as Cloudera shifts new AI and analytics workloads to a Hadoop-free platform due in November.
Expert Columns
Designing for data sovereignty: Building architectures that keep control where it belongs
How businesses can avoid widespread harm from cloud outages
How data centres make the FIFA World Cup possible
Virtual vs. physical firewalls: A practical guide for modern networks
Not all automation technology is created equal: choosing the right tool for the right challenge
Atlassian scales AI search with OpenSearch on Kubernetes
Why digital sovereignty is a myth
Interviews
Interviews and video coverage from the networkRecent Data sovereignty News
Schneider Electric, NVIDIA & HPE launch industrial AI
Industrial operators could soon detect faults and cyber risks faster as Schneider Electric, NVIDIA and HPE move AI closer to plant data.
Google adds AI & partner tools to air-gapped cloud
Defence and intelligence users can now query local text, audio and video with Gemini, without moving sensitive data outside their air-gapped perimeter.
EBU expands sovereign AI framework with NVIDIA & Adobe
European broadcasters are gaining a new AI blueprint to keep data, models and newsroom systems under local control as agents spread into production.
UK tech leaders prioritise AI hosting location in deals
Hosting location has become a top buying factor for UK technology leaders as AI raises questions over sovereignty, security and control.
SAP & NTT team up on sovereign cloud for governments
Governments and defence operators could gain tighter control over sensitive systems as the two groups target regulated customers with sovereign cloud services.
Cloudera expands AI ecosystem with Neo4j & Cartesia
The additions aim to help enterprises run governed AI and voice workloads across cloud and on-premises systems without losing control of sensitive data.
Nvidia's AI tools drive smart city pilots across Europe
Cities from Liverpool to Gothenburg are using Nvidia's AI tools to cut admin time, improve safety and lower operating costs in public services.
Fortinet launches AI security service for FortiGate
The cloud-delivered offering adds real-time prompt and response inspection to existing firewalls, helping firms curb shadow AI, data loss and runaway spend.
Synology urges local control of surveillance video
Firms face greater risk of exposed footage unless they keep surveillance video and AI analytics on site, Synology says.
Nvidia expands French AI push with new startup bets
The move broadens its European sovereign AI footprint as French firms and public bodies race to keep computing and data under domestic control.
Graylog launches AI case system in security platform
Security teams may cut alert overload as Graylog's new case system groups evidence and lets AI triage incidents before analysts step in.
Scaleway deploys AI supercomputer in Sweden with AMD
European startups and larger firms will gain more AI computing capacity as Scaleway expands its first supercomputer beyond France with AMD chips in Sweden.
Revolut builds AI transaction model for 80 million customers
The fintech is aiming to speed fraud checks and other banking tasks by running its new PRAGMA system in production on NVIDIA hardware.
IONOS adds European office suite to Nextcloud Workspace
Businesses and public bodies can now edit files inside a Europe-built alternative to Microsoft-based office software under European legal control.
SUSE unveils sovereign AI platform with NVIDIA tie-up
Enterprises will be able to keep AI agents and proprietary data inside their own infrastructure under the new SUSE-NVIDIA sovereign AI stack.
Percona launches Valkey-proxy to ease Redis migration
It could let firms shift from commercial Redis to open source Valkey without rewriting application code for clustered deployments.
OVHcloud posts first positive cash flow after record year
Cash generation turned positive for the first time since listing as annual revenue climbed 7.2% to €1,145.1 million, beating targets.
Teradata launches Elastic Python Compute on AWS & Azure
Enterprise data science teams can now keep Python AI workloads inside Teradata, reducing governance risk and speeding model training on AWS and Azure.
Vection seals Retelit deal to boost AI sales in Europe
The pact gives Vection a route into enterprise customers across Italy and Europe, with Retelit set to generate at least €12 million by 2030.
Connect finds smaller AI models beat bigger rivals
The findings could sway regulated firms seeking cheaper, more controllable AI, after orchestrated small models beat several larger systems on enterprise tasks.