Luxembourg-based Open source software company SUSE has unveiled a new digital resilience report and shared its roadmap to enable Australian enterprises to meet compliance mandates with AI and edge computing.

New data – which the company revealed at its recent Sydney summit – showed that 98% of IT decision makers considered digital sovereignty tp be critical, and that while 90% were boosting AI budgets compliance was stalling with almost half of AI projects.

SUSE said with new compliance mandates like SOCI, Essential 8, and the Australian Government Whole-of-Government Cloud Computing Policy underway, getting sovereignty settings right was key to ensuring organisations remained complaint, secure and in control of their own data.

Open source is now the critical infrastructure mandate—it provides the lowest memory footprint, enabling businesses to maximise the hardware they already have. By adopting sovereign models underpinned by open standards, organisations can navigate evolving legislation, optimise their existing investments, and retain full freedom over where and how their data runs,” said Ben Henshall, General Manager A/NZ, SUSE.

SUSE also highlighted SUSE AI Factory with Nvidia as proof that this was achievable, folding Nvidia AI into SUSE’s own governance layer to cut AI rollout times from months to days, without any data leaving customer environments.

SUSE also presented its customer and partner innovation awards, recognising enterprises and partners getting AI, scale and sovereignty right. Datacom was featured in the Secure Edge category, while HPE was recognised as a Growth Partner and Centorrino Technologies picked up the Innovation Partner gong.