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“The survey's indication of the rise of 'shadow AI' highlights both a security risk and a powerful signal of employee
innovation. This willingness to explore new tools offers a critical opportunity for leaders to identify and address skills
gaps through targeted training. Ultimately, openness and common standards are not just ideals; they are essential
for maximizing the value of AI and hybrid cloud investments, fostering collaboration, and driving the flexibility needed
for true innovation.”

Hans Roth, Senior Vice President & General Manager EMEA, Red Hat:

“Organisations want greater operational control and IT resiliency to adapt in a world of constant disruption. The
survey results, as well as our daily conversations, show sovereignty prominently on the agenda for enterprise's
ongoing cloud strategies and the budding AI opportunity. Open source is central to this shift as it provides businesses
with the transparency and flexibility to innovate rapidly without compromise. Red Hat helps enterprises retain choice
about where their data lives, how their infrastructure runs and who they partner with. Sovereignty and resilience
come from ecosystems, not silos, and Red Hat's mission is to enable any model, any accelerator, and any cloud –
with trust at the heart of it all.”

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[1] Methodology: the research, conducted by Censuswide, surveyed 909 IT managers and directors (including
infrastructure and cloud infrastructure roles) and AI engineers (including software engineers in AI/ML, NLP and LLM
engineers and data scientists) from companies with 500+ employees across EMEA (in France, Germany, Italy, the
Netherlands, Spain, Sweden, Switzerland, the UAE and the UK). Of these, 100 are from the UAE. Censuswide

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