Every business has a bright future in the cloud, which is scalable and flexible to suit the needs of the modern enterprise. But rapid cloud adoption and data protection regulations, as well as emerging new regulations tied to AI, have been set on a collision course in recent years, with enterprises held to stringent regional laws that oversee how sensitive data can cross borders.
One solution to this problem is sovereign cloud. But how do sovereign clouds actually work and how can firms such as OVHcloud with VMware by Broadcom help European businesses meet both their legal and customer obligations?
In this special edition of the ITPro Podcast, in association with Broadcom, Jane and Rory are joined by Laurent Blin, product marketing leader at OVHcloud and Martin Hosken, field CTO at Broadcom, to get to the bottom of rising sovereign cloud demand and suggest how businesses can embrace the cloud without compromising on their data sovereignty obligations.
Highlights
“Because for me, trusted cloud, maybe sovereign cloud also, it means freedom. You can decide what you want to do and it's really the main feature, I would say, if we see it like this as a product and a feature. It means that the customer stays in control of their data without any lock-in.”
“So as time moves forward and we have more regulations, the solution architecture for any organization and where that data resides and how it's operationally controlled becomes more and more relevant. So it shouldn't be a blocker to consuming cloud of any kind, whether it's private cloud, public cloud, cloud provider solutions, edge solutions, all of those can be encompassed in the same model.”
“This is what we push from OVHcloud, having the possibility to define where, who, what, and the customer can decide what they want to build. And this is also the power of VMware Cloud Foundation because you can use, in fact, the product in one location.”
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