Data Sovereignty

WILMINGTON — November 12, 2026 -- EnterpriseDB (EDB) has hired the agent-native engineering team formerly of CMRD, which built the audit and evidence layer of EDB's agent governance for EDB Postgres AI, to take that work in-house. Christopher Mitchell, CMRD's former managing partner, is now a principal engineer at EDB.

IDC's agent forecast sets the enforcement workload EDB cites

EDB bases the hire on an IDC projection of more than 1 billion AI agents actively deployed worldwide by 2029, executing over 217 billion actions per day. At those floor values, the figure works out to about 217 actions per agent per day. EDB says each action must be permitted or blocked before it runs, recorded as it happens and explainable afterward, on both Postgres and ClickHouse software.

Luxembourg – November 12, 2026 -- Gcore and TengriAI have signed a Memorandum of Understanding to explore a GPU data center in Kazakhstan with a target capacity of up to 100 MW, phased between 2027 and 2029.

Central Asia's thin AI compute base forces reliance on foreign capacity

Central Asia has little domestic AI compute, so organizations depend on capacity in Europe, the Gulf or East Asia, often outside regulatory jurisdiction. Gcore CEO Andre Reitenbach framed the project as a response to a question every market asks: "how do we run AI on our own terms?" The facility would put large-scale GPU infrastructure in the country, operated from the country, for customers across the region.

MUNICH – November 09, 2026 -- Rivada Space Networks has lined up more than $20 billion of business globally for its Outernet low-earth-orbit (LEO) constellation, and it has now added Telespazio Brasil as a partner to bring the network to government and enterprise customers in Latin America.

Telespazio is a 67/33 joint venture between Leonardo and Thales. Its Brazilian subsidiary has operated since 1997 from Rio de Janeiro. It supplies satellite communications, earth observation and ground-system services to government and enterprise customers in Brazil, Argentina, Chile, Colombia, Costa Rica and Peru.

Geneva – November 05, 2026 -- Infomaniak has launched an S3-compatible object storage service in its Swiss sovereign public cloud. It contractually guarantees 99.99% availability when customers enable automatic replication to a second Swiss data center. Without the replica, the guaranteed availability is 99.9%.

Infomaniak bills storage hourly and includes 10 TB of monthly outbound traffic

Customers pay only for the storage they use, by the hour and without contract commitments. Queries are not charged, and 10 TB of outbound data traffic per month is included. Data copied to the second data center is billed as storage. For testing, Infomaniak offers a CHF 300 or EUR 300 public cloud credit valid for three months.

Tokyo – October 31, 2026 -- SAP SE and NTT, Inc. have announced their intention to cooperate on SAP Sovereign Cloud and SAP Business AI, starting with a combined offering that pairs SAP Sovereign Cloud On-Site with NTT-managed infrastructure and operations in key markets.

SAP Sovereign Cloud On-Site runs in customer-owned or customer-selected data centers

The offering targets customers with stringent sovereignty, regulatory and compliance requirements. It lets SAP-managed cloud solutions operate in a data center the customer owns or selects. SAP says this gives organizations local physical control, data residency and operational assurance while helping them meet applicable local legal and regulatory requirements.

Idstein – October 28, 2026 -- Serviceware SE has built its new service management platform AI-native with TU Darmstadt, and CEO and founder Dirk Martin argues that agentic AI only justifies itself where it delivers measurable business value.

Agentic AI adds usage-based costs alongside efficiency gains

Martin says the goal is not maximum AI deployment. Agentic AI raises service efficiency, but it also raises usage-based costs. Companies therefore need to weigh the benefit and total cost of each use case and keep reviewing both, which turns AI into a management task.

Agents move from assistant to acting digital colleague

Agentic systems act independently within set limits, Martin says. They can interpret requests, combine information from different systems, decide within defined rules and complete tasks on their own. Workflows can be modeled from natural language, which speeds up processes and relieves staff of routine work.

Global – October 27, 2026 -- Dust, a collaborative AI platform, is targeting three forms of enterprise AI dependency: reliance on a single model provider, loss of control over agent-generated data, and limited visibility into costs and behavior, according to Co-Founder and CTO Stanislas Polu.

Dust builds a shared layer between staff, company data and multiple models

Polu said Dust lets teams work with AI, switch among supported frontier and open source models, and govern the context, agents and traces their work generates. The platform is multimodel by design, so companies can change models without rebuilding their context and workflows.

Polu argues that agent traces, which record instructions, context, model and tool choices, outputs and human feedback, may become one of a company's most valuable AI assets. He said that corpus could later help companies evaluate or train models for their specific work.

Tysons, Virginia – October 23, 2026 -- Permuta Technologies has published the third whitepaper in its series on AI and government, arguing that permissioning and audit logging can monitor single-vendor concentration of citizen data but cannot reverse it once it exists.

The paper, titled "You Can't Permission Your Way Out of Surveillance at Scale," examines the structural risks of AI-enabled, government-facing data fusion at national scale. It responds directly to Palantir's "Institutional Sovereignty in the Age of AI" framing.

Permuta says model-provider safeguards miss the concentration risk

The whitepaper accepts that zero data retention, model-agnostic architecture, granular permissions and continuous audit logging matter for third-party model providers. It argues they do not address a separate, higher-stakes risk: a single vendor ontology concentrating deeply sensitive citizen data across immigration, tax, health and defense agencies.

SAN JOSE – October 22, 2026 -- Platform9 has been named a Major Player in the IDC MarketScape: Worldwide Private Cloud Infrastructure Software Platforms 2026-2027 Vendor Assessment (doc # US54490426, October 2026), and is pairing the placement with a 60-day production guarantee for VMware migrations.

IDC MarketScape rates vendors on current capabilities and future strategy

The assessment covers compute, storage architecture, networking options, cloud automation, security features and compliance frameworks for regulated workloads. It scores vendors on both present capabilities and forward strategy for private cloud infrastructure software.

Paris – October 15, 2026 -- Biomemory has launched DNA Shield, a managed service that stores encrypted customer data as synthetic DNA in offline custody, and opened its Early Access Program to organizations that need an independent layer for critical digital assets. It is the company's first commercial product.

The service is built as a separate layer held at rest, apart from the active control plane and outside the network-reachable attack surface. Biomemory pitches it at information that must stay trustworthy for years or decades, including against risks from advances in artificial intelligence and quantum computing.