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HOW EUROPEAN CIOS ARE RECLAIMING CONTROL OF THEIR INFRASTRUCTURE
Sean Saperstein, on the leadership team at Sidero Labs – specializing in Kubernetes infrastructure automation – says European CIOs are rethinking cloud-first assumptions as geopolitical pressure, rising costs and regulatory demands drive a shift toward sovereign, flexible infrastructure models.
uropean CIOs are facing
E an unprecedented moment of reckoning. Many of the assumptions that have guided their cloud strategy for the past decade, that infrastructure location doesn’ t really matter, that hyperscale providers offer essentially unlimited flexibility, that geopolitical comings and goings are secondary to technical capabilities, are being fundamentally challenged.
What began as whispered concerns in boardrooms has evolved into active strategic planning as organizations across the continent begin pulling workloads back from US-based infrastructure.
Organizations that once viewed cloud-first strategies as inevitable are discovering that digital sovereignty affects everything from cost predictability to competitive advantage. The convergence of geopolitical uncertainty, regulatory pressure and hard-learned economic lessons is driving European enterprises to rethink their entire approach to infrastructure, with Kubernetes emerging as the key technology enabling this strategic pivot.
Sean Saperstein, Sidero Labs www. intelligentcio. com
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