Sovereign Cloud EXPERT TALKs: New Zealand

Cloud and cloud-centric operating models have grown to become integral components of the modern IT environment. Controlling the actual location of data in the cloud to comply with data privacy regulations has become an important task for CIOs and CISOs and should be a key evaluation criterion in choosing cloud services that handle private, confidential, and restricted data. Join Guy Bartram, VMware Director Product Marketing for VMware Cloud Providers and Linus Lai, VP of IDC Asia/Pacific Software and Services Research Group as they discuss how Sovereign Clouds can tackle the complexities cloud and multi-cloud migration of data and workloads present.

Don’t miss this partner showcase with Ross Delaney, Director Datacom Cloud and Darren Hopper, Associate Director Datacom Cloud, talking all about the Sovereign Cloud initiative with Guy Bartram, Guy Bartram, Director of Product Marketing VMware.

• Ross Delaney, Director, Datacom cloud
• Darren Hopper, Associate Director, Datacom Cloud
• Guy Bartram, Director of Product Marketing, VMware

As part of the Sovereign Cloud Summit 2022, Simon Piff discussed Asia Pacific findings from IDC's latest “Future Enterprise Resiliency & Spending Survey” which, amongst other topics, explored how digital sovereignty is now forcing enterprises to rethink their IT strategies and operations.

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The Sovereign Cloud Summit 2022 that took place in Singapore on 16th November 2022 and was the first-of-its-kind thought leadership event for policy makers, analysts, infrastructure leaders, data strategists, and technology providers, designed to further the conversation for Sovereign Cloud solutions and open discussion regarding challenges.

With the future of national data economies depending on physical & digital infrastructure, nations are increasingly and more acutely aware of the need for pervasive security as well sovereign control over digital supply chains, resulting in a focus on local cloud providers to fill the gap with modern sovereign cloud services built on a secure foundation.