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Integration Infrastructure With Zero External Dependencies — And Why It's Now a Board-Level Requirement
The question of where and how your integration layer runs used to be an IT detail buried three levels below the board. For a growing set of organisations, it has quietly become a question about sovereignty, supply-chain risk, and what you actually control. Here's why that happened, and what it demands.
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By Aaron Gammon · Founder, Inferrex · June 2026
I sold data protection, backup, and recovery tooling into regulated enterprises for years before building Inferrex — energy, utilities, financial services, the kind of organisations where "where does the data live" is never a casual question. The thing I kept noticing was that the integration layer, the plumbing moving data between every system, was almost always the part nobody asked the hard sovereignty questions about. Everyone scrutinised the database and the storage. Almost no one scrutinised the pipes.
This piece argues that's changed, and that it's changed at board level rather than at IT level. Where I describe how Inferrex runs, I keep to what it does, not how it's built; the methodology stays proprietary. Live figures are at inferrex.com/claims.