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How Sovereign Cloud Supports the Future of the Data Economy
The future of national data economies depends on sovereign IT systems and digital infrastructure with pervasive security for private and public sector organizations. A Sovereign Cloud provides a modern set of cloud services built on top of a secured foundation.
How Sovereign Cloud Supports the Future of the Data Economy
The future of national data economies depends on sovereign IT systems and digital infrastructure with pervasive security for private and public sector organizations. A Sovereign Cloud provides a modern set of cloud services built on top of a secured foundation.
Build a National Cloud
Local legislation gives regional providers more opportunities to grow their local economies and develop a national capability for cloud services. Cloud providers have developed techniques and processes for managing and unlocking the value of national data.
Innovate within Regulated Industries
Cloud service providers with sovereign clouds can deliver a multitude of services to customers in regulated industries, such as financial, healthcare, and government. Customers can use this data securely to create value and help organizations in these industries become insight-driven.
Reduce Customer Complexity
Help customers reduce their data center footprint by helping government agencies and enterprises in regulated industries migrate to a secure and compliant cloud.
Tanzu Data Services
Help customers address their digital transformation initiatives securely within their sovereign cloud environment.
Key Capabilities of a Sovereign Cloud
Data Sovereignty and Jurisdictional Control
Data is subject to only the jurisdictional control and authority of the nation state or international federation where the data is collected and resides.
Data Independence and Mobility
Avoid dependency on non-sovereign vendors, while still leveraging them when needed without the risk of customer data or metadata use that violates jurisdictional controls.
Data Security and Compliance
Data security controls must meet specific security frameworks and compliance standards to protect data and establish an information security management system (ISMS).
Data Innovation and Analytics
Help customers unlock the value of their data to drive business innovation through advanced data services, such as data lakes, data warehouses, and AI/ML services.
Data Access and Integrity
A Sovereign Cloud must be deployed in locations entirely under the jurisdictional control of the nation or international federation where the data is collected.
Enriched Sovereign Cloud services
Help drive differentiated services and less attrition, complementing Sovereign Cloud in areas like Object Storage, Backup & Restore and Key management.
Why Sovereign Cloud for Specialized Workloads?
Sovereign Clouds are designed to support customers in a security-first environment with unparalleled compliance, visibility, and scale.
Data Protection and Compliance
Win customer trust with secure data protection and continuous compliance with local regulations.
Leverage Your Expertise
As a local cloud provider, you have the skills and expertise to provide operational support and compliance.
Fortified and Secure
Protect your customers' sensitive data from foreign adversaries and malicious parties.
VMware Sovereign Cloud Providers
Sovereignty is not protectionism, lock-in systems, or closed systems, but the freedom to choose! We are proud to be part of VMware Cloud Verified Partners supporting Zero Carbon Committed Initiative and now VMware Sovereign Cloud initiative. Our VMware solutions, fully automated, reach the highest level of certifications at local and regional scale, such as C5 in Germany, SecNumCloud in France, Italy’s AGID, G-Cloud in the UK, and fully complies with specific sectoral regulations.
Michel Paulin, CEO, OVHcloud
For certain applications and data, security and data privacy dictates the need for national jurisdiction and data classification control to be important. UKCloud’s sovereign cloud gives those customers the assurance that their critical data is kept out of the reach of foreign control and influence, which cannot be achieved by the hyperscale public cloud providers who are under USA jurisdiction. This is driving a growth as more UK technology companies are now able to innovate securely and within their region on a sovereign cloud provider like us.
Simon Hansford, CEO, UKCloud
GCloud.ca by ThinkOn enables the Government of Canada and public sector organizations across the country to easily and securely source and deploy cloud-based data solutions and business applications approved for government workloads on a VMware hypervisor. We selected VMware as our hyper-visor partner specifically because of its compatibility with over 90% of the public sector workload in Canada today.
Craig McLellan, CEO, ThinkOn, Inc.
For both the Government and the Private Regulated sectors, data privacy, security and sovereignty are paramount, but the adoption of cloud strategies has been a pain point due to hyperscale clouds being subject to foreign influence. The Tier V, locally hosted, Telmex Public Cloud provides the security, accountability, governance, and visibility controls to ensure national compliance with data sovereignty, from the application to the metadata of all workloads.
Radwan Gonzalez, Public Cloud Product Manager, Telmex
Government, Public sector and key industries across New Zealand & Australia (Health, Finance etc) are very conscious of the need to maintain data sovereignty, using cloud solutions to reduce risk from data breaches, improve control and deliver high performance availability. Our GovCloud is specifically designed to deliver the data sovereignty and controls needed for government agencies to utilise cloud effectively and securely without impacting sovereignty requirements.
Darren Hopper, General Manager, Datacom NZ
AUCloud provides sovereign Australian protection for Australian government and critical national industry data. Not just customer data but account data, metadata, monitoring data and analytic data – namely the kind of data that global operators transmit offshore to their overseas support centres or corporate analytics farms. AUCloud’s deep capability exceeds Australian government best practice for data classified up to PROTECTED and is built upon certified VMware services assured and operated by Australian security cleared citizens within an ASX publicly listed company (“SOV’) owned by Australians.
Phil Dawson, CEO, AUCloud
New regulations such as Gaia-X, CLOUD Act, and Schrems-II are hitting all organizations at a rapid speed on the global and local scale. We at TietoEVRY experience the increasing demand for national clouds to secure the needs and regulatory requirements of Nordic organisations. To be nominated as the first VMware Sovereign Cloud provider in the Nordics is a proud moment for us.
Alberto Valero, Head of Private Cloud & Edge Services, TietoEVRY
Telefonica recognizes the importance of sovereignty and as being headquartered in an EU member state we are actively involved participating in various EU initiatives to ensure our solutions are as ready as they can be to deliver on the digital economy of the future. Working with public sector and government organisations, Telefonica delivers cloud solutions that manage and maintain data sovereignty with a cloud fabric and secure networking, ensuring multiple aspects of sovereign requirements and principles are maintained.
Daniel Ribaya, Cloud Product Marketing Director, Telefonica Tech
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