Press Release: UKCloud sits at the heart of VMware’s Sovereign Cloud initiative. READ MORE SOVEREIGN CLOUD Make sure your data never leaves the UK by hosting your critical systems in our government-grade data centres. ACCREDITATIONS PLATFORM OVERVIEW PROTECT YOUR DATA FROM FOREIGN POLICY 92% of western data is currently stored or processed by US cloud providers. Data that Foreign Intelligence Agencies can access with relative ease thanks to legislation such as the U.S. CLOUD Act and the invalidation of the EU-US Privacy Shield by the European Courts of Justice. And whilst hyperscaler technologies can provide their customers with assurances around data residency, these assurances can’t be extended to data jurisdiction. To be sure your data is subjected to local data law you need a sovereign cloud provider to sit alongside your existing technology stack. IMPROVE DATA INTEROPERABILITY AT SCALE Data is the new oil. The potential value that can be extracted from data is almost limitless. However, without secure, reliable access to data, next-generation solutions and products simply won’t reach their full potential. And this is the exact reason we’re seeing initiatives around data sovereignty and the standardisation of data infrastructure pick up at pace. Initiatives like Europe’s GAIA-X project or France Cloud. Working with a UK sovereign cloud provider gives you the chance to – not only improve the fluidity of your own data – but help accelerate our nation’s digital capability. TRANSFORM LEGACY OR BUILD INNOVATIVE NEW APPS The UKCloud platform incorporates technology stacks from a variety of established vendors so you can extend the benefits of the cloud to your entire application portfolio. Breathe life into legacy systems using VMware or build new, digital services with Azure or Red Hat. No matter your digital maturity, we have the technologies and people in place that can help you get to where you want to be. DATA SOVEREIGNTY IS OF CRITICAL IMPORTANCE Moving forward the importance of sovereignty and data sovereignty is crucial. It now goes far beyond data residency with data needing to be protected from foreign jurisdiction laws and surveillance Guy Bartram, Director of Product Marketing, VMware Cloud Provider Solutions SOVEREIGN CLOUD The cloud market has evolved significantly in recent years and no longer does sovereignty and independence mean the same as it did before, so organisations must now view sovereignty through multiple lenses. There is now a much wider need for not only National independence but also Operational and Location Independence: Why UKCloud? Sovereign Cloud Benefits National Independence Operational Independence Location Independence Where Data sovereignty is critical but the ability to collaborate is still made available to relevant organisations. Jurisdictional control is essential by ensuring the secure delivery of critical national infrastructure, but not limiting organisations in their ability to have a flexible national capability which allows them to collaborate on the international stage. VIEW OUR PLATFORM AND CONNECTIVITY OPTIONS SHOW ME THREE REASONS TO SUPPORT SOVEREIGN CLOUD NATIONAL CAPABILITY UKCloud’s Sovereign Cloud platform has created numerous high-quality jobs in the UK including unique opportunities for the nation’s ex-Services personnel, undergraduate students, and apprentices. This helps to maintain the UK’s national capability to develop and deploy solutions by addressing the digital skills gap. UKCloud’s contribution to the development of this national digital capability has been independently validated via the award of the Social Value Quality Mark Level 2 which found that for every £1 spent with UKCloud, £1.43 of value to the nation was created. At a more macro-level, the aforementioned benefits can be extended to the entirety of the UK. And not just from a platform point of view, but through the emergence of new industry and technologies that rely on the secure and reliable availability of data. More on this below. SECURITY AND PRIVACY UKCloud operates a Sovereign Cloud platform that has been engineered to meet the uncompromising security and regulatory requirements of critical and sensitive systems in government, healthcare and defence. Sovereign Cloud combines specific technical controls, with the enhanced assurance that the platform is operated by vetted and security cleared experts working within government assured secure facilities. VMware’s secure by design Sovereign Cloud initiative using a Cloud Verified, VMware Validated Design, enables UKCloud to deliver high assurance cloud platforms optimised for the higher classification environments in Defence and secure and sensitive healthcare systems. DIGITAL INDUSTRIES The third benefit of a Sovereign Cloud initiative is that would enable organisations and governments to unlock the value of their data to drive business innovation. In the UK, this is similar to the government’s plan to “build back better” and drive post-pandemic economic recovery through a technology-led strategy. This relies on facilitating the creation of new businesses and new industries powered by digital technologies such as IoT, 5G, Artificial Intelligence, and Data Analytics. UKCloud has leveraged the VMware Cloud Verified programme to deliver a flexible sovereign platform that facilitates and accelerates such innovation across a growing ecosystem of specialist technology partners. This approach has been key in creating sustainable social value due to the force multiplier of nurturing the UK technical community to create intellectual property that could be exported in the future. 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