As leaders in cloud technology continue to compete and operate on an international scale, the focus on cloud sovereignty, which addresses the political, business, and tech dimensions of data protection and security (ensuring autonomy and optimal control from providers), has never been more important for global businesses.
By embedding cloud sovereignty into cloud transformation journeys, global organizations can leverage the best practices and advance a sovereign cloud framework that anticipates operational risks, avoids legal repercussions, builds and maintains trust, elevates market standing and protects their brand reputation. Today, fast-moving regulatory changes are serving as the tide that can disrupt, which make it even more vital that organizations remain resilient, adaptable, and systemic focused through compliance.
It's never been more important for organizations to position themselves strategically and act when it comes to cloud sovereignty. Three phases mark the gradual deployment:
◼ Advise: defining the organization’s unique sovereignty posture and design of the strategy based on the assessment of data and workloads vs. regulation
◼ Implement: the preparation of the architecture up to its implementation (e.g.: sovereign landing zones, data governance, etc.)
◼ Operate: the effective management for its continuous optimization (e.g.: leveraging observability, ecosystem compliance and automation)
Read more about this in Deloitte’s Center for Technology, Media & Telecommunications’ TMT Predictions (https://deloi.tt/3KeCHyY).
Thank you to Ben Stanton, Paul Lee, Alfons Buxó, Adam Gogarty, Gillian Crossan and Kevin Westcott for leading these important insights and to Matt Lacey, Steffen Legler, Andreas Schleiter, Thibaut de la Bouvrie, Michiel van den Heuvel, Amiya Nigam, Monojit Mazumdar, Nicolai Andersen, Karin Wiens, Meirav Hickry, Shahar Bracha, and more for making this possible.
