Sovereign by Design: Lessons From Red Hat Summit
Red Hat, Wednesday, July 29th, 2026
Red Hat draws sovereign cloud lessons from operators in the UAE and India.
Digital sovereignty used to sit somewhere between a compliance checkbox and a future roadmap item, and Red Hat argues that is changing fast.
At Red Hat Summit, Mohammed Retmi of Core42 in the United Arab Emirates and A.S. Rajgopal of NxtGen in India joined a roundtable on how two very different markets are building sovereign clouds.
The post covers what each operator prioritized and where their approaches diverged. It draws out the design decisions that follow from taking sovereignty as a requirement rather than a feature. The discussion is relevant to anyone building or buying in-country cloud capacity.