Sovereign Cloud

The regulatory landscape is changing on many levels, compliance and data-protection rules are top of mind for many of our customers. Companies must address data sovereignty and localization for each platform service they use and how they interconnect with other technologies in the organization, and of course, external parties.

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What is a Sovereign Cloud?

There is no single, legal definition of the sovereign cloud but the concept is simple - a sovereign cloud is a cloud which ensures all data and related metadata stays on sovereign soil. Sovereign clouds are therefore architected and built to deliver security and data access that meets strict requirements of regulated industries and local jurisdiction laws on data privacy, access and control. They protect and unlock the value of critical data for both private and public sector organizations.

 

The importance of a Strategic Trusted Partner

Having been a digital native company operating mission-critical services for the past 20 years and with datacenters in Norway, Sweden, the Netherlands and Germany, Orange Business has a proven track-record of protecting the customer’s data, their business, and their reputation. Always by using certified and dependable solutions and partners that ensure data-sovereignty, compliance, transparency and security.

 

Flexible delivery models for all your needs

Different delivery models (self-service to fully managed) and capacity based or consumption-based billing setups, deliver real business flexibility for the customer.

Sovereign Cloud, Managed

We ensure end-to-end service availability by taking operational responsibility and providing tailored managed services. We guarantee availability of mission critical services and business process through fully redundant solutions and datacenters. By using smart tooling, robust technology and broad expertise, we ensure efficient scaling of all components in any layer.

 

Complete Service Responsibility

We ensure end-to-end service availability by taking operational responsibility and providing dedicated service management. We guarantee your continuity in business processes.

 

Maintaining high availability

By using our unique tooling, robust technology and broad expertise, we ensure efficient scaling of all components in any layer. We guarantee availability of mission critical services and business process through fully redundant solutions and datacenters.

 

Handling high complexity

We take operational responsibility for complex architectures and systems and take overall ownership in your technology value chain by ensuring availability between internal and external activities.

 

Business continuity

To guarantee that your technical solution is giving your business the availability and performance it needs, we have dedicated service management professionals in place. They assist you in securing the continuity of your technical solutions.

Sovereign Cloud, Self-service

Organizations must address data sovereignty and localization concerns promptly. Sovereign Cloud services are in demand, both in national and European contexts. Many customers are looking to move workload and data from the public cloud to local cloud solutions, to secure and safeguard current (and future) compliance requirements.

Sovereign Cloud, Self-service provides an easy entry to secure cloud services that will be hosted in a local data center. gives you the ability to choose how you work with us, giving you access to the tools and resources you need to start using Sovereign Cloud. Our solution is the next generation cloud service that gives you flexibility, and innovation opportunities in an on-prem environment.

 

Trusted Technology

The platform is built on VMWare Cloud Director, recognized and one of the fastest developing technology stacks for local cloud. It offers futureproof technology and an integrated marketplace with verified pre-configured and automated service images and features from approved 3rd-party vendors.

The solution allows elastic provisioning of network, storage, and compute resources. You can quickly adapt the available resources to changing business needs and only pay for the resources allocated at any given time. The Platform is easily accessible through a web interface, API or IaC solutions such as Terraform. We provide this service from local data centers in Norway, Sweden, Germany and the Netherlands at this point, but the footprint is expanding.

    • Flexible
      Our self-service soverign cloud services are built on a standardized cloud platform by VMware, offering compute, storage, and networking services as easily consumable services.
       
    • Predictive Billing
      is done on basis of simple clearly defined consumable objects like vcpu, memory and stored data. Making it a transparent and predictive cost model for our customers.
    • Hyperscaler look & feel
      Virtual machines, containers, storage and advanced network services consumable through API:s, Terraform or web UI. Just as with any hyperscaler cloud.
       
    • Local Delivery
      All Sovereign Cloud services are delivered from our own data centers located in Norway, Sweden, Germany and The Netherlands.
    • Hybrid Cloud
      Within a single contract and dedicated customer team we give customers full insight into spending across local and public cloud services, accounts, subscriptions and usage.
       
    • Security
      The Sovereign Cloud service offer comprehensive and certified protection for your infrastructure, applications and data by means of robust IT-security, compliance frameworks, and crucial certifications like ISAE 3402, SOC II, PCI-DSS, ISO 9001, ISO 27001, ISO 14001, ISO 50001.

Why choose Orange Business?

We provide platform and management services for critical cloud applications, building and running the solutions, employing world-class, secure, scalable, and cost-effective environments, on private, public or hybrid cloud.

  • Operational Excellence - having been a digital native company operating mission-critical services for the past 20 years and with datacenters in Norway, Sweden, the Netherlands and Germany, we can combine local, private, and public cloud environments in a true hybrid-cloud delivery.
  • Award-winning “Customer First” approach, proven and praised by customers and analysts alike. We are a reliable partner, always there when you need us, and with real-life customer cases that back up our claims.
  • True Native Digital Culture: enabling fast and agile customer engagements, while being an attractive employer of top-skilled people. You always have access to certified local roles as Project Managers, System Architects, Security Experts etc.
  • We bring robust IT-security and regulatory compliance to your business, by means of sovereign data solutions, security frameworks, and crucial certifications like ISAE 3402, SOC II, PCI-DSS, ISO 9001, ISO 27001, ISO 14001, ISO 50001…

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