{"slug": "tech-buyers-are-baking-in-sovereignty-from-day-one-says-forrester", "title": "Tech buyers are baking in sovereignty from day one, says Forrester", "summary": "Forrester Research reports that technology buyers are now incorporating sovereignty considerations from the outset of their purchasing decisions, according to a new analysis. The trend reflects growing demand for data control and compliance with regional regulations, impacting how enterprises evaluate cloud and IT services.", "body_md": "### MOST POPULAR\n\n[AI](https://beta.theregister.com/tag/ai)\n\n-\nSYSTEMS\n\n#### UK wants datacenters to pay a fee for grid connection requests\n\nRefundable charge intended to discourage time wasters from filing applications that will never be realized\n\n-\nSTORAGE\n\n#### GPUs could explode to multiple TB with new storage-inspired memory tech\n\nHigh-bandwidth flash promises SSD-like capacities with HBM-like speeds, but it's not all unicorns and rainbows\n\n-\nAI and ML\n\n#### Open source project fools AI scrapers with poisoned font\n\nShieldFont is available today if you've got copy that needs protecting\n\n-\nOFF-PREM\n\n#### The majority of corporate IT is now off premises for the first time\n\nSurvey finds more workloads run off-site than at in-house corporate facilities for the first time\n\n-\nAI and ML\n\n#### Closed models refuse to help researcher swat Linux bug\n\n\"I'm sorry, Dave. I'm afraid I can't do that\" is an effective sales pitch for open source\n\n[Infosec](https://beta.theregister.com/security)\n\n-\nSecurity\n\n#### Russians are posing as Signal support to launch phishing attacks\n\nPLUS: US takes down Iranian propaganda sites; Marketing company asks 'Why Do We Have Your Information?' And more!\n\n-\nSecurity\n\n#### Microsoft patches failed to fix on-prem SharePoint, which is now under zero-day attack\n\nPLUS: China upgrades smartphone surveillance tools; Ring eases anti-snooping stance; and more\n\n-\nBlack Hat and DEF CON\n\n#### DEF CON Franklin project enlists hackers to harden critical infrastructure\n\nVoting village reports have been so successful, says Jeff Moss, that the whole of DEF CON will now be included\n\n-\nSecurity\n\n#### EQT buys majority share in Swiss cybersecurity biz Acronis\n\nWent at equivalent of $3.5B+ valuation for entire firm, though portion sold not specified\n\n-\nMalware Month\n\n#### Ten years since the first corp ransomware, Mikko Hyppönen sees no end in sight\n\nOn the plus side, infosec's a good bet for a long, stable career\n\n[FOSS](https://beta.theregister.com/tag/FOSS)\n\n-\n#### FOSS smashed one Microsoft monopoly. After 20 years of failure, it's time to smash another\n\nWord up\n\n-\n#### GNOME can look like Windows – and Flashback can do it without extensions\n\nNew 'Simple-taskbar' is an option, but there's a simpler, stabler way\n\n-\n#### A moment of silence, please, for the final release of Debian on x86-32\n\nNew Debian versions hit FOSSland in the form of 13.6 and 12.15\n\n-\n#### Baddies caught exploiting extensions bugs with perfect 10 scores on vulnerable Joomla websites\n\nFlaws in iCagenda, Balbooa Forms extensions can impact open source CMS that powers a million sites worldwide\n\n-\n#### Frame: A new X11 server – implemented directly in assembly\n\nJoins yserver, Phoenix, and of course XLibre – and outlier Arcan\n\n-\n#### Cinnamon 6.8 will support Wayland – if you want it\n\nNext version of Linux Mint’s desktop has both kinds of display server", "url": "https://wpnews.pro/news/tech-buyers-are-baking-in-sovereignty-from-day-one-says-forrester", "canonical_source": "https://www.theregister.com/ai-and-ml/2026/07/31/tech-buyers-are-baking-in-sovereignty-from-day-one-says-forrester/5281208", "published_at": "2026-07-31 10:00:00+00:00", "updated_at": "2026-07-31 10:14:53.224867+00:00", "lang": "en", "topics": ["ai-policy"], "entities": ["Forrester Research"], "alternates": {"html": "https://wpnews.pro/news/tech-buyers-are-baking-in-sovereignty-from-day-one-says-forrester", "markdown": "https://wpnews.pro/news/tech-buyers-are-baking-in-sovereignty-from-day-one-says-forrester.md", "text": "https://wpnews.pro/news/tech-buyers-are-baking-in-sovereignty-from-day-one-says-forrester.txt", "jsonld": "https://wpnews.pro/news/tech-buyers-are-baking-in-sovereignty-from-day-one-says-forrester.jsonld"}}