Author: Margaret Dawson

Margaret Dawson
By: Margaret Dawson
October 14, 2026

SUSECON 2027: Sovereign AI for an Open World

Get a sneak peek of SUSECON 2027 in Barcelona, Feb 15–17. The conference will focus on sovereign AI, open infrastructure and real choice, under the theme “Sovereign AI for an Open World.”

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Margaret Dawson
By: Margaret Dawson
October 05, 2026

Tales from the AI Crypt: How SUSE AI Factory Banishes AI Horrors

Enterprise AI adoption is moving at breakneck speed, but for CISOs, IT directors, and platform engineers, the scariest stories aren’t happening on screen, they are lurking inside the enterprise data center. From rogue engineers feeding proprietary source code to hungry public LLMs, to container-escaping autonomous poltergeists, and models silently rotting in production, enterprise AI is […]

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Margaret Dawson
By: Margaret Dawson
August 13, 2026

Demystifying the Token Tax: How to Optimize AI Workloads Without Breaking the Bank

Nearly every enterprise leader is rushing to deploy AI, but very few of them actually understand the hidden currency driving the entire machine. They see the flashy demos and the autonomous agents, or they get massive pressure from their boards, but they don’t see the plumbing or the potential budget impact. If you want to […]

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Margaret Dawson
By: Margaret Dawson
August 06, 2026

AI Architecture: Moving Past the Washing to the Truth

In the current hype cycle, “AI” has become a linguistic junk drawer—a catch-all term that vendors use to mask everything from basic if-then statements to massive neural networks. For the modern enterprise, this “AI Washing” isn’t just annoying, it’s a strategic risk.  To build a resilient, sovereign infrastructure, we have to stop treating AI as […]

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Margaret Dawson
By: Margaret Dawson
May 08, 2026

The Silicon Ceiling: Why the Hardware Crisis is the Ultimate Wake-Up Call

At a glance Hardware scarcity, driven by skyrocketing memory prices and historically low data center vacancies, means you can no longer simply buy more hardware to scale performance. Optimizing the performance and capacity of underutilized hardware is key to resilience in 2026.  SUSE supports several pathways to reclaiming capacity and maximizing utilization, including: converging VM […]

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Margaret Dawson
By: Margaret Dawson
April 28, 2026

The Green Heart of Open Source: Why Sustainability Drives Innovation

  When we talk about the “Green Heart” of SUSE, we aren’t just talking about a logo color or a CSR report. We’re talking about the fundamental connection between open source architecture and planetary resilience. For too long, the industry has treated sustainability and innovation as if they were on opposite sides of a scale. […]

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Margaret Dawson
By: Margaret Dawson
April 23, 2026

SUSECON 2026 Wrap-Up: Choice Happened in Prague

What a week in Prague! This city has a way of making big ideas feel possible, and SUSECON 2026 met that energy from the very first keynote. As I sit here catching my breath (and catching up on my sleep!), I’m buzzing from the one throughline that defined every conversation: Resilience. Months ago, when we […]

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Margaret Dawson
By: Margaret Dawson
March 31, 2026

The 2026 IT Investment Benchmark: Navigating Sovereignty, AI and Resilience

  If you’ve followed my work for a while, you know I care deeply about three things: open source, hybrid cloud and data. So when we had the opportunity to survey nearly 600 enterprise technology leaders across the U.S., UK, Japan, India and Germany on how AI is reshaping infrastructure priorities, I had to see […]

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