Why now is the right time to move to sovereign private cloud

Whether or not you subscribe to Canada’s Prime Minister Mark Carney’s recent description of our current geopolitical moment as a rupture, there can be little doubt that serious and significant changes are afoot that will alter how Western nations relate to one another in the future. Technology is an integral aspect of the current complications as many big tech services are global in scope, yet becoming ever more entwined with the US administration through shared goals and the projection of hard power. Services such as cloud computing, once considered politically neutral, must now be viewed from another perspective: as this article states, “The cloud is no longer just a service - it’s a geopolitical asset.”

Many of us have long taken sovereignty into account in respect of where our data is geographically located, even if using the global public cloud offerings of Microsoft or Amazon. But sovereignty really means more than simple data location and the questions should be asked: who owns the infrastructure which we use and what potential implications might that have? 

If the infrastructure is owned by a US big tech company for example - is that really sovereign for a UK business? And depending on how geopolitical reality evolves, does that make your business operations vulnerable?

Here at Inevidesk we have always felt that service diversity is critical. Dependence on too few service providers is problematic: we have seen this increasingly recently in relation to massive global outages caused by Azure, AWS and Crowdstrike. Lack of diversity also stifles competition, innovation, has security implications and causes supply chain fragility amongst other things. We believe competition is vital and should be actively supported, especially when arising in your own national economy and jurisdiction.

This is one reason why we developed our own VDI and IaaS services utilising an open source foundation; it gave us the freedom to innovate and provide higher performance in a cost accessible way, free from the restrictions, leverage and costs of big tech legacy software. And it allows us to be truly sovereign: UK owned, UK built, UK located. Offering our customers high performance VDI-centric sovereign private cloud.

If this is something you feel to be important - and we believe that more and more businesses will start to feel this way - then please get in touch.