The Ultimate Guide to Hybrid Cloud
A curated UK edition of TechDay news, analysis, interviews, reviews, job moves, and related resources for Hybrid Cloud.
What to know about Hybrid Cloud
Hybrid cloud technology blends public and private cloud environments to offer businesses flexibility, scalability, and enhanced control over their IT infrastructure. This approach enables organizations to optimize resource use, enhance disaster recovery capabilities, and improve security by balancing on-premises data centers with cloud services.
Our collection of recent stories covers a wide spectrum of developments in hybrid cloud, including advancements in AI-powered security, partnerships expanding hybrid cloud capabilities, and new solutions enhancing data management and disaster recovery. Readers can explore expert insights on managing hybrid IT environments, cloud migration strategies, cost optimization, and overcoming security challenges associated with hybrid deployments.
Whether you are an IT professional looking to stay informed on the latest hybrid cloud innovations or a business leader aiming to harness the benefits of hybrid architectures, these stories offer valuable perspectives on the evolving hybrid cloud landscape and practical guidance for successful adoption.
UK Hybrid Cloud News
Regional stories with direct local relevance
Vertesia & Florence Consulting Group strike AI deal
Vertesia and Florence Consulting Group team up to push enterprise AI into live workflows across Europe, backed by a major platform update.
Argyll launches UK sovereign AI cloud for organisations
Argyll Data Development has unveiled a UK-sovereign AI inference cloud, offering regulated organisations local control over data, models and operations.
Hammer launches on-premises AI platform for sovereign use
Hammer targets AI deployment bottlenecks with Hammer Stack, an on-premises platform built for data control, compliance and sovereign workloads.
Atos wins LCH SA cloud migration deal for clearing systems
Atos secures three-year cloud migration contract from LCH SA, moving core clearing-house systems to a SecNumCloud-qualified environment.
Celerity acquires Ranger4 to boost automation & AI
Celerity buys Ranger4 to expand automation and AI services, with the UK managed services provider targeting secrets security and cloud cost control.
Cloudhouse launches Cyber Essentials readiness check
Cloudhouse warns updated Cyber Essentials rules could trigger more automatic failures, as it unveils a free readiness check for organisations.
Analyst Insights
Research and market analysis connected to Hybrid Cloud
Tessell names McDonough & Carter to executive team
Digitate named a Leader in IDC's AIOps 2026 review
Boomi gains analyst praise across integration & AI
Rubrik launches Google Cloud tools for AI governance
Check Point tops Miercom hybrid mesh security benchmark
Featured News
Exclusive: Denodo's Dominic Sartorio on perfect data vs the right data
Denodo's Dominic Sartorio warns businesses accelerating artificial intelligence deployments that cloud migrations alone do not make data ready for real-time AI.
Exclusive: Grafana Lab's Jen Villa on targeting the AI observability gap
Grafana Labs unveils new AI observability and CLI tools as enterprises grapple with monitoring and controlling production AI systems at GrafanaCON 2026.
TrendAI: Evolving the cybersecurity value proposition
TrendAI urges stronger AI governance as it shifts cybersecurity from fear-based selling to platformised risk reduction for Australian firms.
Elastic says AI search & context now decide customer loyalty
Elastic argues that in an AI-obsessed market, robust search across messy data is the real foundation of trustworthy, profitable experiences.
The hidden data costs threatening enterprise AI plans
Hidden cloud data, egress fees and GPU 'double bubble' bills are quietly turning many enterprise AI ambitions into costly, slow ordeals.
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Smart Communications pursues trusted AI for customers
Smart Communications helps organisations in regulated industries face down communication challenges every day.
Expert Columns
The Death of the Firewall
Why trust is the bottleneck for AI-driven operations
Why the next phase of AI adoption will be determined less by models and more by data foundations
Why AI-powered security needs network telemetry across the hybrid cloud
Atlassian scales AI search with OpenSearch on Kubernetes
HPE complete care service: Refocused for your AI advantage
Why digital identity is the new perimeter in a zero-trust world
No compromise: Designing AI operations for sovereignty and reliability
Why the channel is key to driving a new network operating model
SonicWall unifies NSM for future-ready security ops
Interviews
Interviews and video coverage from the network
Exclusive: Denodo's Dominic Sartorio on perfect data vs the right data
Exclusive: Grafana Lab's Jen Villa on targeting the AI observability gap
TrendAI: Evolving the cybersecurity value proposition
Elastic says AI search & context now decide customer loyalty
The hidden data costs threatening enterprise AI plans
Recent Hybrid Cloud News
UK firms back open source to bolster AI sovereignty
Red Hat survey finds UK firms are adopting agentic AI faster than they can govern it, despite strong support for open source controls.
Qlik launches AI sovereignty push amid tighter rules
Qlik unveils AI sovereignty initiative and ISO certification as it expands regional AWS deployments to help customers meet tighter data rules.
Insight warns of cloud waste amid AI cost pressures
Insight says UK firms are losing cloud spend to waste as AI and sovereignty demands drive up infrastructure costs.
Videosign & Brightsolid expand AI cloud partnership
Videosign deepens Brightsolid partnership as it adds AI note-taking and form-filling tools for regulated users, with cloud costs and governance in focus.
OpenText partners S3NS on sovereign cloud for Europe
OpenText and S3NS launch a sovereign cloud service for Europe, offering regulated customers in France locally governed hosting with Google Cloud technology.
From vulnerability management to AI-powered exposure assessment: building a modern CTEM program
AI-driven exposure assessment is reshaping CTEM, helping cyber security teams move beyond vulnerability lists to prioritise business risk and cut exposure.
GARR & Cubbit launch storage network for universities
GARR and Cubbit pilot Europe's first federated storage network for Italian universities, starting with 1 petabyte across data centres in Bologna, Rome and Bari.
Genetec to showcase cloud AI security in Birmingham
Genetec, Convergint and Axis Communications to unveil cloud-enabled, AI-driven security platform at Birmingham trade show.
Hammer launches AI Works programme for channel partners
Hammer unveils AI Works for UK channel partners, adding a laboratory, portal and specialist support to tackle skills gaps and deployment hurdles.
UK firms back AI workloads but doubt cyber recovery
UK organisations back up AI workloads widely, yet only 39% say they are fully confident they could restore cloud data after a cyberattack.
London adds tape archive choice for Geyser Data users
Geyser Data and Spectra Logic bring tape-as-a-service archiving to London, giving customers a new European option for low-cost cold data retention.
Euro-Office launches as Europe's open-source Office rival
IONOS and Nextcloud unveil Euro-Office, a European open-source suite aimed at public bodies seeking a Microsoft-compatible, sovereign alternative.
CWCS opens Nottingham data centre to boost capacity
CWCS opens Nottingham data centre to lift cloud and colocation capacity, targeting low-emission hosting for AI and high-density workloads.
Open source use rises as firms shun vendor lock-in
Concern over vendor lock-in is driving a global surge in open source adoption, with European organisations leading the shift to digital autonomy.
Vultr and SUSE partner for Kubernetes AI cloud launch
Vultr and SUSE partner to bring Rancher Prime and SUSE AI to Vultr Marketplace, targeting Kubernetes and AI workloads across clouds.
Deskpro launches on AWS European Sovereign Cloud in EU
Deskpro rolls out its help desk platform on AWS European Sovereign Cloud, targeting EU customers with strict data residency demands.
Multiverse launches CompactifAI portal for LLM ops
Multiverse launches CompactifAI API portal, giving dev and ops teams self-serve access to compressed LLMs with tighter control and insight.
Meshcloud joins CNCF to advance cloud-native platforms
Meshcloud joins CNCF and The Linux Foundation to push open standards, cloud-native tooling and digital sovereignty for multi-cloud platforms.
Rubrik & Rackspace unveil UK sovereign cyber recovery cloud
Rubrik and Rackspace launch UK Sovereign Cyber Recovery Cloud to restore vital services after ransomware while keeping data under UK control.
TD SYNNEX & SAS unveil Viya partner lab for Europe
TD SYNNEX and SAS launch a European SAS Viya demo environment to speed AI prototypes, cut setup costs and shorten partner sales cycles.
Job Moves
SUSE revamps structure to boost digital sovereignty focus
DigiCert appoints Christian Stanford to lead EMEA partners
Veeam appoints Doriane Groene to lead Microsoft alliance in EMEA
Brightsolid appoints Charlie Gough as Head of Cloud Solutions
Gcore appoints leading AI expert Prof Xu as Board Advisor
OneAdvanced appoints new SVP for Managed IT Services role
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