This sense of urgency around digital sovereignty wasn’t there two years ago. Today it is, but not everyone feels concerned.
On the ground, we’re currently seeing two types of players.
The first ones call with a question: “What’s available and what can we do today?”
Far from theoretical debates or long-term thinking, they have an operational emergency.
These players have understood that digital sovereignty is no longer a matter of European conviction or ecological commitment, but that it has become a matter of security.
The second group is still at the beginning of the journey: for them, digital sovereignty remains an abstract topic, pushed back for later.
So why has the market shifted so abruptly for the first group?
The geopolitical context has done what years of awareness campaigns failed to do: make the risk tangible. We saw this very recently with Anthropic’s Mythos, but also with backdoor scandals that led to data breaches, etc.
This is far from a conversation about values, it’s squarely about a key issue for business continuity.
So where do you stand on this? Do you know where your critical data is hosted? Do you know what path it takes to get there? If your main cloud provider goes down tomorrow, can you recover your data? How long would it take? And if your network infrastructure is affected, do you have an alternative route with an independent architecture? And not just a partner (hence the two LANs from France-IX 😉)
These are simple questions, but the answers are often uncomfortable.
Peering Essentiel
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