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Sovereign cloud is only possible if you’re Chinese or American: Gartner

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Sovereign cloud is only possible if you’re Chinese or American: Gartner
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It’s not possible to operate a completely sovereign cloud outside of China or the USA, according to Douglas Toombs, a VP analyst at Gartner. Speaking at the analyst firm’s IT Infrastructure, Operations & Cloud Strategies Conference in Sydney today, Toombs said only the US and China make all the tech needed for a sovereign cloud. Buyers elsewhere can’t avoid relationships with foreign providers. Toombs said that while US-based cloud vendors have created products they say can meet the needs of org

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