Methodology: Every two weeks we collect most relevant posts on LinkedIn for selected topics and create an overall summary only based on these posts. If you´re interested in the single posts behind, you can find them here: https://linktr.ee/thomasallgeyer. Have a great read!
Cloud Security
Finance teams prioritised misconfiguration avoidance, least-privilege access, and centralised key management to close the most common breach vectors
Microsoft Defender for Cloud surfaced “attack-path” visualisations that rank risks across hybrid estates, improving remediation focus
AWS simplified security-group governance at scale, while runtime-security vendors highlighted the need for live detection and response inside containers and VMs
Cloud AI & Data
GPU scarcity pushed providers to announce NVIDIA Blackwell-powered instances and AI-optimised storage tiers
SAP Business Data Cloud adopted Data Mesh concepts, signalling that federated, product-oriented data ownership is becoming mainstream
Firms began recruiting “AI Cloud Engineers” who combine MLOps, infra-as-code, and cost-governance skills
Multi-Cloud & Hybrid Management
Enterprises cited policy drift, cost opacity, and talent duplication as the top multicloud pain points; new reference architectures addressed these with unified governance layers
Financial-services collaborations with IBM and AWS underlined the shift to vendor-agnostic control planes that preserve compliance while exploiting best-of-breed services
Enterprise Applications on Cloud
SAP used its Sapphire forum to confront performance gaps, license complexity, and RISE roadmap clarity, aiming to retain ERP leadership during the transition to AI-infused processes
Edge Computing & IoT
Thought leaders reframed edge as a “device-first cloud,” emphasising local inference and lightweight orchestration to reduce latency and egress cost
Cloud Infrastructure Optimisation
Analysts recommended strategic workload repatriation for non-differentiated compute to curb overspend without sacrificing agility
Policy & Sovereignty
European providers advanced “trusted cloud” offerings that ring-fence data under local jurisdiction, while AWS launched a UAE sovereign landing-zone accelerator for public-sector workloads
Geopolitical risk discussions expanded to include energy supply, underlining the interdependence between digital infrastructure and critical resources
Investment & Economics
Case studies from Alibaba Cloud and Intesa Sanpaolo illustrated that cost savings alone no longer justify migration; governance maturity and cultural change now dominate ROI narratives
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