Sovereignty has become a buzzword in the AI era with discussions around data localisation entering boardroom discussions globally. Everyone wants to go sovereign, however the roadmap to this as well as the definition around the term are not well chalked-out. Speaking exclusively with businessline, Rohit Badlaney, General Manager, IBM Cloud Product, Design and Industry Platforms, talked about how enterprises need to markedly define sovereignty before planning their architecture design around sovereignty. Breaking down the Indian CXO-level conversations around this, Badlaney also discussed about India’s progress compared to other global markets.
How have client priorities evolved when it comes to technology and AI?They are more thoughtful of their landing zones, what stays on-premise, what goes to one cloud, considering what’s happening around concentration risk of big hyperscalers, sovereignty and protection of assets within a market, and what’s fuelled by AI. I find clients to be more thoughtful now versus just saying the answer is public cloud. Clients actually think through their app estate, landing zones and design it correctly, get faster acceleration on both their hybrid cloud journeys and their AI journeys. So, I find that’s changed since the 2018-19 timeframe.
