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We're looking back at a year when cloud infrastructure stood at the center of strategic decisions more than ever before. 2025 marked a turning point: sovereignty is no longer just a political talking point. Over the last year, it has become clear that protecting digital sovereignty is fundamentally tied to maintaining technological, economic, and legal control for businesses that rely on cloud services.
Given geopolitical volatility and the massive scaling requirements driven by AI workloads, one thing is clear: the architecture of the future must be open, portable, and transparent.
How have IT leaders' priorities shifted? And what matters most if you want to avoid falling into the next dependency trap in 2026?
The answer lies in understanding that true cloud sovereignty isn't about labels or marketing promises, it's built into the fundamental architecture of your infrastructure.
In his recent interview with it-daily, our CEO Dr. Christian Kaul analyzes the strategic landscape for the coming year. Here are the three decisive insights:
Sovereignty is technically measurable: Carrying a "European label" isn't enough. Real sovereignty shows up in the architecture, specifically through absolute key ownership in encryption, transparent data paths, and consistently designed-in portability.
The hyperscaler cost trap: Dependency often creeps in through convenience. In 2025, many companies realized that storage prices aren't the problem, it's the costs of data movement and deep integration with proprietary services that make switching nearly impossible.
AI as the driver of new architectures: For 2026, AI will massively drive up data volumes. Organizations that rely on inflexible, monolithic platforms risk losing control not only over their data, but also over their budgets. Specialized, sovereign infrastructures are often the better choice here.
According to Christian Kaul, this is the defining question for every cloud strategy in 2026. It's not about choosing the biggest provider, but the one that secures your long-term freedom of choice.
You'll find detailed answers to these insights, plus Christian Kaul's complete year-end review and outlook, in his exclusive interview with it-daily. Dive deeper into the strategic details and learn how to build crisis-proof cloud infrastructure for 2026:
Read the complete interview at it-daily.
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