<?xml version="1.0" encoding="UTF-8"?><rss version="2.0"><channel><title>SovereOS — Blog</title><description>SovereOS is the IT partner for mid-sized companies that would rather own their systems than rent them: devices, network, identity, managed support and an AI-native workplace.</description><link>https://sovereos.com</link><language>en</language><item><title>Your continuity plan is one person</title><link>https://sovereos.com/blog/your-continuity-plan-is-one-person</link><guid isPermaLink="true">https://sovereos.com/blog/your-continuity-plan-is-one-person</guid><description>Most mid-sized companies have a single point of failure with a name, a laptop and a set of passwords nobody else has. It is rarely on the risk register.</description><pubDate>Thu, 03 Sep 2026 00:00:00 GMT</pubDate><category>key person risk</category><category>documentation</category><category>continuity</category><category>IT management</category></item><item><title>Nobody in your company can price the exit from your own IT</title><link>https://sovereos.com/blog/nobody-can-price-the-exit</link><guid isPermaLink="true">https://sovereos.com/blog/nobody-can-price-the-exit</guid><description>Ask what leaving your current suite would cost in money, weeks and data that does not come out cleanly. The absence of an answer is itself the finding.</description><pubDate>Thu, 20 Aug 2026 00:00:00 GMT</pubDate><category>lock-in</category><category>migration</category><category>cost</category><category>audit</category></item><item><title>Identity is the real lock-in</title><link>https://sovereos.com/blog/identity-is-the-real-lock-in</link><guid isPermaLink="true">https://sovereos.com/blog/identity-is-the-real-lock-in</guid><description>Companies worry about moving their documents. The thing that actually holds them in place is the directory every other system trusts to say who you are.</description><pubDate>Thu, 06 Aug 2026 00:00:00 GMT</pubDate><category>identity</category><category>SSO</category><category>directory</category><category>migration</category></item><item><title>Your staff already use AI. The question is whether you know what they sent</title><link>https://sovereos.com/blog/your-staff-already-use-ai</link><guid isPermaLink="true">https://sovereos.com/blog/your-staff-already-use-ai</guid><description>Shadow AI is the current state in most companies, and a ban produces the same usage with worse visibility. What a workable policy looks like instead.</description><pubDate>Thu, 23 Jul 2026 00:00:00 GMT</pubDate><category>shadow AI</category><category>policy</category><category>data protection</category><category>workplace</category></item><item><title>When sovereignty is not worth what it costs</title><link>https://sovereos.com/blog/when-sovereignty-is-not-worth-it</link><guid isPermaLink="true">https://sovereos.com/blog/when-sovereignty-is-not-worth-it</guid><description>A company selling sovereign IT should be able to say when not to buy it. Four situations where the honest recommendation is to leave things where they are.</description><pubDate>Thu, 09 Jul 2026 00:00:00 GMT</pubDate><category>trade-offs</category><category>migration</category><category>cost</category><category>honest advice</category></item></channel></rss>