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Everpure stock surged more than 40% in September, making it the S&P 500's top performer for the month. The rally followed the company's investor day, where it forecast fiscal 2028 revenue of $7 billion to $7.3 billion, representing growth of up to 45%. The momentum built on strong second-quarter results showing 38% revenue growth to $1.2 billion. Everpure's inclusion in the S&P 500, effective 21 September, also boosted the stock. Several investment banks raised their price targets. Morgan Stanley increased its fiscal 2028 and 2029 earnings estimates by 15% and 30%, respectively. Citi raised its target to $160 from $130, whilst Bank of America lifted its target to $180 from $150. Moderna and Intel finished second and third amongst S&P 500 gainers, with gains of 37.2% and 34.3%, respectively.

Why Singapore firms fear data sovereignty failures but remain underprepared. Everpure's 2026 report shows a sharp gap between executive concern and operational readiness across one of Asia's top digital hubs 1 Oct, 2026 Singapore's position as one of Asia's most advanced digital economies is built on a simple promise: global companies can move data, capital and operations through the city-state with confidence. A new study suggests that promise is becoming harder to keep. Research released by data storage and management company Everpure found that 89 per cent of Singapore-based enterprise leaders believe a data sovereignty failure could cost them their jobs. The fear is not only personal. The same proportion said such a failure could damage their organisation financially and reputationally. Yet the more striking finding is the gap between concern and action. According to Everpure's Global Data Sovereignty Report 2026, 81 per cent of Singaporean enterprises surveyed do not have a formal data sovereignty strategy in place, the highest share among the eight markets covered in the study. That matters because data sovereignty is no longer just a legal question about where information is stored. It has become a business continuity, geopolitical and vendor risk issue. At its simplest, data sovereignty refers to the idea that data is subject to the laws and controls of the country or jurisdiction in which it is stored, processed or accessed. In practice, the challenge is more complicated: companies must know who can access their data, which foreign laws may apply, and whether a cloud or software provider could be forced to hand over information or suspend services during a political dispute. For Singapore, a regional headquarters for banks, tech companies, logistics players and digital platforms, the issue cuts especially close. The country's economy depends on trusted cross-border flows of information. At the same time, its companies often rely on global cloud, software-as-a-service (SaaS) and cybersecurity vendors whose infrastructure may span several jurisdictions. Awareness is high, preparedness is not. Everpure commissioned research firm Vanson Bourne to survey 2,100 C-suite and IT leaders from large enterprises across the UK, France, Germany, Australia, Japan, South Korea, Singapore and India in June 2026. Singapore accounted for 100 respondents. The study found that 93 per cent of Singapore organisations recognise data sovereignty as a business concern, compared with 90 per cent globally. Some are already changing procurement behaviour. About 41 per cent of Singapore respondents said they are limiting their use of SaaS providers that rely on non-domestic infrastructure, while 86 per cent said they would compromise on advanced features to work with a local or sovereign provider. But recognition has not translated into operational readiness. In Singapore, 63 per cent of enterprises said they lack full visibility into who can access, control and manage their data. More worrying, 68 per cent said they have no mitigation plans for geopolitical data exfiltration or service disruption. This is the heart of the "sovereignty gap" highlighted in the report: executives know the risk is material, but many organisations have not built the governance, technical controls or response plans needed to manage it. Nathan Hall, Vice President and General Manager for Asia Pacific and Japan at Everpure, said the risk for Singapore lies in the disconnect between digital maturity and organisational preparedness. "Singapore is one of the most digitally mature markets in the world, yet 81 per cent of enterprises here are operating without a formal data sovereignty strategy. That gap between awareness and action is the real risk," he said. "Sovereignty is not simply about where data sits - it is about knowing who can access it, which jurisdictions apply, and whether critical services could be disrupted." The point is especially relevant in Southeast Asia, where regulation is still uneven across markets. Singapore has a mature data protection regime under the Personal Data Protection Act, while neighbouring economies are developing or refining their own privacy, cybersecurity and localisation rules. For regional companies, this creates a patchwork problem: data may be generated in Indonesia, processed in Singapore, analysed through a US-headquartered SaaS platform, and stored on infrastructure distributed across several markets. The AI factor. The sovereignty question is becoming more urgent because of artificial intelligence. As companies feed more enterprise data into AI systems, the boundaries around storage, access and reuse become harder to track. Sensitive operational data may move into model-training environments, analytics platforms or third-party applications without executives fully understanding where it goes or how it is governed. This is not just a theoretical risk. Banks, insurers, healthcare groups and government-linked enterprises in Southeast Asia are under growing pressure to adopt AI while maintaining strict controls over customer data. For startups and scaleups, the challenge is different but no less serious. Many depend on global cloud platforms and AI tools from day one, often without the resources to conduct deep vendor risk reviews. Everpure's survey suggests that companies are still treating sovereignty as an extension of cybersecurity or compliance. That may be too narrow. Cybersecurity focuses on preventing unauthorised access or attacks. Compliance focuses on meeting legal obligations. Sovereignty adds another layer: whether an organisation retains effective control over its data when foreign laws, vendor dependencies or geopolitical shocks come into play. Rahiel Nasir, Research Director and Lead Analyst for Worldwide Digital Sovereignty at IDC, described the shift as a board-level issue. "The challenge for executives is not just about knowing where their data are hosted," he said. "It is about being in total control of all data access and transfers, including all metadata, guaranteed protection against extra-territorial data requests, and managing IT and vendor risks in the light of geopolitical uncertainties." From compliance checklist to operating model. Everpure argues that companies should move towards "sovereignty by design", where governance and controls are applied based on the risk of each data set, application and workload. In practical terms, that means mapping critical data, classifying it properly, understanding vendor access, and deciding which workloads require stricter controls. The distinction matters. Not every piece of enterprise data needs the same level of protection. A marketing dashboard, payroll file and national infrastructure system carry different risks. A blanket localisation strategy can be expensive and restrictive; a purely global cloud approach can leave companies exposed. The harder but more useful path is to decide which data must remain under tighter corporate control and which can safely sit within global platforms. For Singapore, the findings should be read less as an indictment and more as an early warning. The country has spent years building itself into a trusted digital hub for Asia. Maintaining that position will require not only strong national regulation, but also stronger internal discipline among enterprises using cloud, SaaS and AI systems. The boardroom fear captured in Everpure's report may sound dramatic. But in a region where data flows underpin finance, trade, healthcare and digital services, sovereignty failures are no longer abstract policy debates. They are operational risks, and increasingly, leadership risks. Editor, e27

Accelerating workload mobility with Zero Copy Migrations using Nutanix Move. September 29, 2026 6:00 am | 6 min Migrating Virtual Machines (VM) between different hypervisors historically meant copying the VM data over the network from the source to the target environments. This process can result in long migration data seeding times and often the whole migration plans revolve around how quickly the data can be copied. The Nutanix Move migration tool changes the paradigm in version 6.3 by integrating with leading storage vendor Everpure. The technology leverages Everpure's APIs to clone VMware vVol based virtual disks within the same FlashArray. This means the data stays in place, and migrations are designed to complete rapidly, often in minutes depending on the environment, configuration, and workload characteristics. Figure 1: An animation depicting the zero copy migration process at a high-level. Key Benefits of Zero Copy Migrations Zero Copy Migrations offer significant operational and economic advantages to organizations who want to migrate from VMware ESXi to Nutanix AHV while protecting their storage investments. * Speed and Efficiency: Designed to significantly reduce overall migration time by utilizing native array-level cloning. * Seamless Migration Scaling: Since the network bandwidth and the typical data seeding times do not come into play, large scale migration waves and enterprise VMs can be migrated efficiently and with minimal manual intervention. * Cost Savings: The zero copy migration approach is designed to maximize the existing storage array investments without requiring additional hardware for storage. The Zero Copy Migration Process Nutanix Move provides a streamlined process for performing Zero Copy Migrations in the migration planning workflow. * Configure Clusters and External Storage: Create Nutanix compute cluster and register with an Everpure FlashArray external storage which contains the vDisks of VMware VMs that are to be migrated. The Nutanix compute cluster connects to the Everpure FlashArray using NVMe/TCP protocol without the need for any direct-attached storage. The Move virtual appliance (or appliances) is deployed from a virtual machine image, usually to the target Nutanix cluster. * Add External Storage to Move: Enter the Everpure FlashArray details in Move Figure 2: Adding External Storage Vendor credentials to Move * Add Source and Target Details: Register both the source VMware ESXi host or vCenter and target Nutanix cluster details in Move. * Create a Migration Plan: Initiate a new Migration Plan and select Zero Copy Migrations as the Migration Type Figure 3: Select Zero Copy Migration in Migration Plan * Select Storage Array: Choose the Everpure Storage Arrays registered with the target AHV cluster hosting the VMs that need to be migrated. Then select the registered Nutanix Container for the target. * Select VMs for Migration: Move identifies potential VMs in the VM selection workflow. Users can select a set of VMs for migration. Any VM that is not eligible for Zero Copy migrations will be identified clearly: Figure 4: VM filtering and selection for Zero Copy Migration Move identifies the reason why some VMs are not eligible for Zero copy migration: Figure 5: Information icon identifies why some VMs are not migrateable using Zero Copy * VM Preparation and VM Settings: Once the VMs are selected for migrations, users select all the other required parameters for migration like the VM Network, VM preparation details, and various settings like IP/MAC retention, etc. Once the plan is ready the user is presented with a summary of the selections made. At this point the plan is ready for execution. * Migration Execution and Cutover Once a Zero Copy migration plan is triggered, Move performs a validation of the plan. Post validation, the VMs will be in the Preparation phase. Once the VMs are prepared, they are transitioned to 'Ready to Cutover' state as there is no data to copy or seed from source to target. The cutover process can be triggered manually or scheduled. When a cutover is triggered, the following actions are performed. * Move shuts down the source VMs and disconnects the virtual NICs. * Move creates a target VM with the similar configuration as the source VM and provisions it with empty placeholder vdisks that are similar to the source * Move triggers the Everpure FlashArray Clone APIs for each of the vdisks belonging to each of the VMs * Once the cloning is completed, Move powers on the target VM and performs the remaining VM config updates and target side preparation. The cutover process is streamlined because it does not involve any final delta sync of data. Neither does it involve any vDisk consolidation. Once the cutover completes, users can start managing the VMs from Nutanix Prism Central directly. * Rollback In the event that a migration needs to be rolled back, the original VMs are still available in the source environment, albeit with a note added to the VM and its vNIC disconnected. An operator can simply shutdown (or delete) the VM on the target site and then re-configure the original source VM before powering it on. This straightforward rollback methodology means that, should your migration wave not go to plan, you have the original position to fall back on, helping organizations address a common migration concern. Conclusion. Zero Copy Migrations from VMware vVols offer a streamlined and efficient path to migrate to Nutanix AHV for Everpure Flash Array customers. By eliminating data copying and disk format conversions, migrations are quick, repeatable and mitigate the risks associated with more manual methods. This process is designed to to help minimize temporary storage overhead associated with dual running source and target environments during migrations. Overall, it is a simplified, streamlined mechanism to migrate workloads and accelerate their evacuations from VMware to the Nutanix Cloud Platform (NCP) infrastructure software stack with EverPure Flash Array storage. For detailed information on Nutanix's partnership with Everpure storage see: https://www.nutanix.com/everpure (C) 2026 Nutanix, Inc. All rights reserved. Nutanix, the Nutanix logo and all Nutanix product and service names mentioned are registered trademarks or trademarks of Nutanix, Inc. in the United States and other countries. Nutanix, Inc. is not affiliated with VMware by Broadcom or Broadcom. VMware and the VMware product names recited herein are registered or unregistered trademarks of Broadcom in the United States and/or other countries. All other brand names mentioned are for identification purposes only and may be the trademarks of their respective holder(s). Inside the 2026 gartner(r) magic quadrant(tm) for Container management.