|
By Mark Boost
Two-thirds of UK IT leaders say they would switch cloud providers to take back control. Fifteen percent have actually done it. That is the headline from Civo's Digital Sovereignty Revolution 2026, a survey of 1,000 UK IT leaders. The intent is loud and getting louder. The movement is almost silent. It would be easy to call that apathy. It is not. UK organizations are staying on hyperscale infrastructure they no longer fully trust for four very specific reasons. Three of them are structural.
|
By Luke Jimenez
Four in five UK teachers now use artificial intelligence for work. That is an extraordinary level of adoption for a technology that, just a few years ago, most people outside the technology industry had barely encountered. But there's another figure from the same research that I find considerably more interesting. Only 35% of teachers using AI say they're actually working fewer hours because of it.
|
By Mark Boost
Every age has had its spark, the moment an idea stops being an idea and becomes something a whole country can build on. Steam, electricity and the web all began with people who could see what was possible, but each one only changed the world once someone built the infrastructure to make it real. Britain has never been short of those people. Our universities produce world-leading AI research, our engineers are among the best anywhere, and our founders build companies the rest of the world wants to buy.
|
By Donna Leonard
First previewed on stage at Civo Navigate London, the new Civo dashboard is now in beta, and getting to it just got a lot easier. Starting today, you'll see a Try it now banner at the top of your current dashboard at dashboard.civo.com. Click it to head to the new dashboard, sign in with your usual Civo account details, and you're in. You can also go directly to dashboard-manager.civo.com. Look for the Try it now banner in your current dashboard.
|
By Simon Hansford
The conversation around sovereign cloud in India is getting louder, which is welcome, but as more providers enter the space, I keep seeing the same architectural pattern, and it's worth being direct about what it misses. The pattern is familiar... take a cloud platform, host it in India, manage it end to end, call it sovereign, and let data residency carry the rest of the argument. That works for web apps and standard enterprise workloads.
|
By Emma De Guzman
This week marks the end of our fourth Civo Navigate London event, and it feels like a good moment to say that this one had a slightly different energy from the ones before it. Over the past four years, we have hosted 10 Civo Navigate events across North America, India, and Europe, and each one has taught us something new about what this community actually wants from a day like this. London 2026 was no exception, and I think this year's lineup pushed that a little further than usual.
|
By John Dietz
The Civo Community Slack has become home to over 35,000 engineers, platform teams, students, and practitioners. It’s one of the things we’re most proud of, a genuine space where the people who use Civo and the people who built Civo are in the same room. Since starting the Civo Community Slack, we’ve shipped an entirely new brand, launched Konstruct, and expanded our AI infrastructure.
|
By John Dietz
If you've ever inherited a cluster that nobody fully understands, or watched two teams solve the same infrastructure problem in completely different ways, you've already felt the cost of not having a template strategy. It's not always dramatic; it starts with a different CNI here, a missing cert-manager version there, but it compounds. Six months later, cluster configuration is tribal knowledge, and the platform team has become the bottleneck.
|
By Debora Tonet
London has spent decades establishing itself as one of the world’s major technology hubs. Its strength comes from the concentration of AI and technology startups, financial services and fintech, highly regulated industries, universities and research institutions, international businesses and technology companies, alongside a large community of developers and engineers.
|
By Civo Team
The sovereign cloud conversation has been dominated by physical location and legal jurisdiction. Both matter. But there's a third leg most discussions skip: the software stack itself. If the platform running a sovereign cloud is proprietary code controlled by a company in another country, its sovereignty has a soft underside.
|
By Civo
AI factories don't sell floor space. They produce tokens, the currency of intelligence, and every jump from Hopper to Vera Rubin packs in up to 4x the density. Training wants one giant site. Inference wants to be as close to you as physics allows. So the panel maps out what comes next: edge data centres of 5 to 50MW, handing work between your watch, your phone and the cloud at the lowest possible latency.
|
By Civo
Everyone's racing to build gigawatt AI factories by 2035. What if the faster route is already plugged in? Swarms of agents need far more compute than a chat prompt ever did, and the scaling laws say demand isn't slowing. But in the UK, anything over 15MW can mean waiting until 2032 or later for a grid connection. So the panel makes a different case: smaller sites on existing power and fibre, linked into one national campus, live in less time than a single mega-build.
|
By Civo
Why can't the UK make its own AI chips? David Sullivan argues that the biggest gap isn't chips, compute or electricity. It's trust. If people won't let AI near their finances, the best model in the world goes unused, and that's where the UK has a real chance to lead. Civo makes complexity a thing of the past.
|
By Civo
Open source models are closing in on the frontier. But is running them the same as being sovereign? David Sullivan explains why true sovereignty means owning the whole model lifecycle, and why that's where prototypes stall before production. James Faure shows how distilling small, task-specific models can slash costs. Dr Rosemary Francis argues it's ridiculous to use the most expensive model for every task, and that your harness and engineering process matter more than which model sits at the top of the leaderboard.
|
By Civo
AI agents are taking real actions in production. So when one misbehaves, who's accountable: the model provider or the company running it? David Sullivan explains why a regulated bank can't outsource accountability to an AI lab. James Faure shares how Clairo AI uses hypothesis testing and quality gates before any agent reaches production. Dr Rosemary Francis argues that guardrails which amount to a strongly worded letter won't survive. What agents need are genuine sandboxes and a limited blast radius.
|
By Civo
Your data sits in the UK. But who has the final say over it? As AI raises the stakes on where data lives and who controls it, digital sovereignty has moved from policy debate to boardroom priority. At Civo Navigate London, Lord Paul Drayson, Simon Hansford, Richard Woodfield of DataVita, Dan Chester of VAST Data and Ed Barker of Havishams explore what sovereignty really means for governments, businesses and the infrastructure behind them, and what it will take for the UK to adopt AI without giving up control.
|
By Civo
Your AI agent can read every log, metric and trace in seconds. It still can't tell you why things broke. At Civo Navigate London, James Herbert of groundcover explains why AI SRE agents need that context to travel the whole development lifecycle. He shows how agents embedded in the tools where software is built and run can move from isolated tasks to investigating and acting with the full picture.
|
By Civo
The data centre was built for a different era. Racks drawing more power than entire rooms once did, heat that air alone can't carry away, and inference that needs to run close to the work are forcing a rethink from the ground up. In this fireside chat from Civo Navigate London, Civo CEO Mark Boost, Anthony Sarno and Josh Mesout explore how the demands of AI are reshaping the data centre and challenging traditional approaches to cloud infrastructure.
|
By Civo
Everyone depends on open source. Far fewer agree on who should sustain it, what counts as "open", or what portability really means.
|
By Civo
Your infrastructure lives everywhere. Your view of it shouldn't. Civo CTO Dinesh Majrekar gives the first look at the new Civo dashboard. It's built around one idea: however many regions, clusters or environments you run, managing them should feel like one cloud. Civo makes complexity a thing of the past.
- October 2026 (13)
- September 2026 (7)
- August 2026 (21)
- July 2026 (9)
- June 2026 (27)
- May 2026 (19)
- April 2026 (13)
- March 2026 (16)
- February 2026 (13)
- January 2026 (12)
- December 2025 (8)
- November 2025 (12)
- October 2025 (22)
- September 2025 (2)
- August 2025 (4)
- July 2025 (18)
- June 2025 (8)
- May 2025 (12)
- April 2025 (9)
- March 2025 (15)
- February 2025 (3)
- January 2025 (12)
- December 2024 (8)
- November 2024 (7)
- October 2024 (14)
- September 2024 (6)
- August 2024 (8)
- July 2024 (21)
- June 2024 (12)
- May 2024 (24)
- April 2024 (23)
- March 2024 (5)
- February 2024 (3)
- January 2024 (20)
- December 2023 (21)
- November 2023 (49)
- October 2023 (9)
- September 2023 (17)
- August 2023 (21)
- July 2023 (10)
- June 2023 (9)
- May 2023 (22)
- April 2023 (7)
- March 2023 (9)
- February 2023 (7)
- January 2023 (7)
- December 2022 (8)
- November 2022 (27)
- October 2022 (16)
- September 2022 (6)
- August 2022 (25)
- July 2022 (8)
- June 2022 (17)
- May 2022 (9)
- April 2022 (25)
- March 2022 (5)
- February 2022 (8)
- January 2022 (5)
- December 2021 (6)
- November 2021 (8)
- October 2021 (9)
- September 2021 (10)
- August 2021 (13)
- July 2021 (10)
- June 2021 (8)
- May 2021 (4)
- April 2021 (4)
- March 2021 (8)
- February 2021 (4)
- January 2021 (2)
- December 2020 (7)
- November 2020 (3)
- October 2020 (9)
- September 2020 (1)
- August 2020 (1)
- July 2020 (8)
- June 2020 (3)
- April 2020 (1)
- March 2020 (1)
- February 2020 (1)
- January 2020 (1)
- December 2019 (1)
- November 2019 (2)
- September 2019 (1)
- July 2019 (1)
- May 2019 (1)
- March 2019 (1)
Building the #1 cloud hosting platform for developers. Superfast, scalable cloud servers with a developer-friendly API – moulded and shaped by our community.
Civo’s vision is simple. To create a flexible cloud platform created by developers, for developers. We think you should spend less of your time managing environments and hosting platforms, and more time coding – after all, that’s what we always wanted.
Built by developers, for developers:
- Clean REST API: Manage your cloud instances with ease and streamline your deploys with our clean, custom-built REST API.
- Lightning speed: Set up instances in seconds and get incredible performance with the latest hardware and blazing fast network.
- Community driven: Our community of users are at the heart of everything we do and their feedback shapes the evolution of the Civo cloud.
Join Civo today spin up your first instance in seconds.