Resilience and digital sovereignty are emerging as defining priorities in enterprise IT amid rising multicloud complexity and AI adoption. In response, organizations are betting on open, modular architectures and partner ecosystems to reclaim flexibility and control.

Resilience is often tied to sovereignty and security. That link can create a tendency to think systems need to be closed or locked down to maintain control, according to Margaret Dawson (pictured), chief marketing officer of SUSE S.A. That logic, however, conflates visibility with vulnerability, improperly casting resilience, sovereignty and security as arguments for closed systems.

“None of those things mean that you can’t be open. I think what we’re bringing to this conversation is you actually can’t be sovereign in a black box,” Dawson said. “You need to be able to see. You need that transparency to have control.”

Dawson spoke with theCUBE’s Paul Nashawaty at SUSECON 2026, during an exclusive broadcast on theCUBE, SiliconANGLE Media’s livestreaming studio. They discussed digital sovereignty and how open architectures and multicloud strategies are shaping modern enterprise IT. (* Disclosure below.)

Digital sovereignty and composable architectures

As workloads grow more distributed and demands grow more unpredictable, static architectures are struggling to keep up. An open architecture viewpoint emphasizes the evolution toward more composable and modular systems — an approach that has been discussed for years but is now gaining real momentum across the industry, according to Dawson.

“You need it as you’re going more to the edge. You need those smaller footprint technologies and the ability to have that composable architecture helps you there,” Dawson said. “AI — it helps you there. It needs that composability as well to act.”

Adopting those composable, open architectures is increasingly less of a strategic choice and more of a survival requirement. The forces pushing organizations in that direction — AI, edge, multicloud complexity — are not slowing down, Dawson noted. If anything, the opposite is true.

“At the end of the day, organizations are still focused on the same things,” she said. “The pace of change, the pace of innovation, and I know we’ve said this before, but it really does feel like it’s beyond exponential.”

Here’s the complete video interview, part of SiliconANGLE’s and theCUBE’s coverage of SUSECON 2026:

(* Disclosure: TheCUBE is a paid media partner for SUSECON 2026. Neither SUSE, the sponsor of theCUBE’s event coverage, nor other sponsors have editorial control over content on theCUBE or SiliconANGLE.)

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