Red Hat is launching a free Digital Sovereignty Readiness Assessment to help organizations measure their digital sovereignty. The tool provides a baseline across seven domains and is based on open-source criteria.
Digital sovereignty is becoming a top priority for businesses. In fact, recent research from Gartner shows that Europe is growing rapidly, with spending on digital sovereignty expected to reach $12.6 billion by 2026. To help you map out your own company’s sovereignty, Red Hat is introducing a Digital Sovereignty Readiness Assessment. This free self-service tool is designed to help companies gain better insight into their control over data, infrastructure, and operational processes.
Baseline across seven domains
The Digital Sovereignty Readiness Assessment provides an objective baseline across seven core domains: data sovereignty, technical sovereignty, operational sovereignty, assurance sovereignty, open-source awareness, executive oversight, and managed services. Based on a four-stage model, the tool assigns a maturity score. This score helps organizations prioritize their investments.
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The assessment makes it clear where critical data is located and how infrastructure and platforms are structured. Additionally, it examines whether internal teams can manage and recover core systems without external dependencies. These insights support decisions regarding workload distribution, vendor strategy, and the design of an open hybrid cloud architecture.
Open standard via GitHub
The assessment criteria are available as open source. The source code criteria, developed by Red Hat’s Chris Jenkins, are publicly available on GitHub. Organizations are free to use them as an open standard for evaluating digital sovereignty.
With this approach, Red Hat aims to prevent companies from becoming dependent on closed evaluation models. The tool is intended to provide transparency regarding data, operations, and governance, thereby supporting the planning of an open hybrid cloud environment.