Right now, we’re taking the subsequent step in strengthening our European Digital Commitments to empower our prospects with higher selection, extra management over their knowledge privateness and probably the most sturdy digital resilience we’ve got ever supplied. Constructing on our 42-year historical past as an organization in Europe, we’re increasing our efforts with Microsoft Sovereign Cloud. This supply spans each public cloud and personal digital infrastructure, guaranteeing our prospects can select the correct steadiness of management, compliance and functionality for his or her wants.
With this expanded providing we’re asserting Knowledge Guardian for European operations, Exterior Key Administration for customer-controlled encryption, Regulated Atmosphere Administration for simplified configuration and Microsoft 365 Native for important productiveness companies in personal cloud environments.
This brings collectively complete productiveness, safety and cloud options designed to allow European organizations to develop, compete and lead on their very own phrases and with extra management than ever earlier than throughout Sovereign Public Cloud, Sovereign Personal Cloud and Nationwide Accomplice Clouds.
Constructing on our expertise delivering sovereignty options that meet the wants of extremely regulated prospects and authorities companies, our Sovereign Public Cloud is an evolution and growth of the Microsoft Cloud for Sovereignty and shall be supplied throughout all current European datacenter areas, for all European prospects, throughout enterprise companies reminiscent of Microsoft Azure, Microsoft 365, Microsoft Safety and Energy Platform. Sovereign Public Cloud ensures buyer knowledge stays in Europe, beneath European Legislation, with operations and entry managed by European personnel, and encryption is beneath full management of consumers. That is enabled for all buyer workloads operating in our European datacenter areas requiring no migration.
Microsoft’s new Sovereign Personal Cloud will help important collaboration, communication and virtualization companies workloads on Azure Native. This resolution now integrates Microsoft 365 Native and our safety platform with Azure Native, offering constant capabilities for hybrid or air-gapped environments to satisfy resiliency and enterprise continuity necessities.
In France and Germany, our Nationwide Accomplice Clouds supply complete capabilities of Microsoft 365 and Microsoft Azure in an independently owned and operated surroundings. In France, we’ve got an settlement with Bleu, a three way partnership between Orange and Capgemini, for Bleu to function a “cloud de confiance” for the French public sector, important infrastructure suppliers and important companies suppliers that’s designed to satisfy SecNumCloud necessities. In Germany, we’ve got an settlement with Delos Cloud, an SAP subsidiary, for Delos Cloud to function a sovereign cloud for the German public sector that’s designed to satisfy the German authorities’s Cloud Platform Necessities.
Throughout our Sovereign Public Cloud, Sovereign Personal Cloud and help for Nationwide Accomplice Clouds, Microsoft Sovereign Cloud presents probably the most complete set of sovereignty options within the {industry} for built-in productiveness, safety and cloud.
Sovereign Public Cloud for all Microsoft Cloud prospects in Europe
Many know-how suppliers have approached sovereignty as area of interest necessities for a novel set of consumers that require a selected deployment strategy that at occasions is at odds with the economics and innovation of public cloud techniques. This typically requires operating duplicate techniques and groups, migrating to separate environments and limiting entry to cutting-edge applied sciences like AI. Nevertheless, Microsoft’s Sovereign Public Cloud builds an evolving set of sovereign capabilities that may be configured to satisfy particular wants with out sacrificing performance or requiring migration to specialised datacenters. With Microsoft’s Sovereign Public Cloud at present in preview and set to be usually out there in all European cloud areas later this 12 months, we are going to introduce new options and options that reinforce this imaginative and prescient.
Asserting Knowledge Guardian
Our EU Knowledge Boundary already supplies an industry-leading dedication to retailer and course of your knowledge on infrastructure situated in Europe. Knowledge Guardian will add an extra degree of assurance by guaranteeing that solely Microsoft personnel residing in Europe management distant entry to those techniques. Knowledge Guardian provides extra human and technical oversight at any time when engineers outdoors of Europe want entry. All distant entry by Microsoft engineers to the techniques that retailer and course of your knowledge in Europe is accredited and monitored by European resident personnel in actual time and shall be logged in a tamper-evident ledger.
Asserting Exterior Key Administration to increase Azure Managed HSM
Encryption beneath the complete management of consumers supplies an extra assure of knowledge safety. With exterior key administration, prospects can join Azure to keys saved on their very own {Hardware} Safety Module (HSM) on-premises or hosted by a trusted third occasion. We’re working with main HSM producers reminiscent of Futurex, Thales and Utimaco to make sure their help.
Asserting Regulated Atmosphere Administration
The Regulated Atmosphere Administration service will permit prospects to simply handle all these options in a single place (for example, configuring Knowledge Guardian insurance policies or reviewing entry log entries). Regulated Atmosphere Administration shall be on the middle of the shopper expertise for configuring, deploying and monitoring workloads in help of sovereign operations. Collectively, these instruments shall be on the middle of the shopper expertise for configuring, deploying and monitoring workloads within the Sovereign Public Cloud.
Sovereign Personal Cloud with Azure Native and Microsoft 365 Native
Whereas strengthening sovereign controls in public cloud environments is important, we additionally perceive that some situations require sure workloads be run in a bodily surroundings beneath full buyer management to help enterprise continuity danger mitigation. Azure Native delivers Microsoft cloud companies in buyer places, enabling organizations to satisfy particular knowledge residency and sovereignty necessities. It consists of core Azure capabilities — reminiscent of compute, storage, networking and virtualization companies — whereas offering a constant administration and developer expertise. Azure Native is right for delivering companies nearer to the place knowledge is generated or regulated, whether or not in-country, on-premises or in partner-operated datacenters. Microsoft’s Sovereign Personal Cloud resolution is in preview at the moment and shall be usually out there later this 12 months.
Asserting Microsoft 365 Native
Microsoft 365 Native supplies prospects with extra selection by bringing collectively Microsoft’s productiveness server software program into an Azure Native surroundings that may run fully in a buyer’s personal datacenter.
This supplies a simplified deployment and administration framework for organizations to run Microsoft’s trusted productiveness servers in environments they totally management. Constructed on our validated reference structure and powered by Azure Native, Microsoft 365 Native allows prospects to deploy Microsoft productiveness workloads like Alternate Server and SharePoint Server in their very own datacenters or sovereign cloud environments — with full management on safety, compliance and governance.
Personal Sovereign Cloud is designed for governments, important industries and controlled sectors that want to satisfy the best requirements of knowledge residency, operational autonomy and disconnected entry.
Constructing a sovereign cloud and AI accomplice ecosystem for Europe
To help European prospects in implementing and working sovereign options, we’re additionally excited to preview a brand new Microsoft Sovereign Cloud specialization within the Microsoft AI Cloud Accomplice Program. This specialization will present our European prospects the flexibility to establish Companions who’ve differentiated themselves primarily based on their demonstrated capabilities in supporting their Sovereign Cloud ambitions on Microsoft know-how. Our preview companions embody Accenture, Arvato Programs, Atea, Atos, Crayon, Capgemini, Dell Applied sciences, IBM, Inspark, Infosys, Lenovo, Leonardo, NTT Knowledge, Orange, Telefonica and Vodafone.
“The launch of Microsoft Sovereign Cloud marks a pivotal second in empowering European establishments and industries with the management, compliance and innovation they should thrive in at the moment’s digital economic system,” stated Aiman Ezzat, CEO of Capgemini Group.
“As a shareholder of Bleu, we’ve got already arrange a Nationwide Accomplice Cloud in France with a purpose to ship Microsoft applied sciences in a sovereign surroundings that respects the French State necessities. With many years of expertise in Microsoft applied sciences and deep experience in regulated sectors, we’re uniquely positioned to assist our purchasers harness the complete energy of Microsoft’s sovereign private and non-private cloud options. Collectively, we’re enabling a trusted digital future for Europe.”
Delivering on our digital commitments to Europe
Collectively, Microsoft Sovereign Cloud is grounded in our European Digital Commitments and presents the very best mixture of selection, management and resilience for European prospects. Microsoft is proud to supply the broadest set of sovereignty options out there available on the market at the moment and we are going to always search for new methods to make sure our European prospects have the choices and assurances they should function with confidence.
In a time of geopolitical volatility, we’re dedicated to offering digital stability. With every step we take on this journey, we invite open dialogues with our prospects, policymakers and regulators as we proceed to innovate.