Kathy Gibson is at VMware Explore in Barcelona – As VMware promotes the importance of a sovereign cloud, South African providers have been at the forefront of giving their customers just this.
Data sovereignty has long been an issue for organisations like governments, banks or companies handling issues of national importance. But, as Baguley points out, there is a growing realisation that sovereignty needs to extend beyond the data. “A lot of the hyperscalers talk about data sovereignty, but we are starting to see some pushback from customers about those claims.