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

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.