Vultr, a GPU-based cloud services provider, recently introduced two new offerings aimed at ensuring retention of data within national limits to secure data sovereignty as well as maintain adherence to regulations.
“In order to cater to the burgeoning demand for nations to exercise control over their respective data and to decrease their dependence on a handful of major international tech firms, Vultr is now set to provide on-demand sovereign clouds to national governments globally” stated J.J. Kardwell, CEO of Constant, the parent company of Vultr.
The troika of Vultr Sovereign Cloud, Private Cloud and the company’s 32 data centers across six continents maintain all aspects, be it data, computational power, physical set-up or governance, within national borders and according to the country-specific conditions.
Currently, the firm is joining hands with local telecommunication companies to establish infrastructure that minimizes reliance on hyperscalers which makes data sovereignty tough to manage, and offers control over global data and compliance without compromising on the capability for expansion.
The recent announcement from the company about the introduction of Vultr Cloud Inference has created quite a buzz. This feature allows for AI model deployment and AI inference on a global scale via the Vultr’s comprehensive infrastructure. It also highlights the serverless architecture rendering the deployment of AI models easy regardless of their training environment’s configuration.
In the last decade or more, numerous nations have increasingly been concerned about keeping their sensitive or classified data within national borders. One can trace back this concern to the time Verizon and NSA were accused of snooping on the German government’s communications. Then there is the additional issue of regulatory compliance for sensitive data that complicates matters further. As a result, many nations are now creating digital walls around their data centres to ensure the confidentiality of their sensitive data.
Accenture conducted a survey as cited by Vultr, revealing that half of the European CXOs consider data sovereignty as the main factor while choosing cloud vendors. Additionally, over a third of them are considering transferring 25-75% of their data, assets, or workloads to a sovereign cloud.
To cater to these needs, Vultr has designed the Sovereign Cloud and Private Cloud. These platforms are tailored for government bodies, enterprises, and research institutions. These systems provide access to cloud-native infrastructure while also guaranteeing stringent compliance with local regulations and ensuring that operations, technology, and critical data reside within national borders.
Vultr ensures security through air-gapped deployments. In these deployments, systems are physically detached and it uses a customer-controlled dedicated control plane. Such measures provide an absolute isolation of processing power and data from global cloud resources.
For businesses, Vultr provides the Vultr Container Registry that operates on a “train anywhere, scale everywhere” principle. This feature allows models to be developed in one location and disseminated across various geographies, thereby enabling clients to expand AI models according to their needs.
The Vultr Sovereign Cloud and Private Cloud are presently available.
