Sovereign private cloud

Your data, your jurisdiction, your rules.

Dedicated Private Cloud gives critical workloads physically isolated compute, storage and networking on VMware Cloud Foundation, within your compliance boundary. Rackspace designs, builds and operates the environment 24x7x365, while your team retains control of architecture and applications.

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Where your data lives is now a board-level decision

Regulators, citizens and customers increasingly expect sensitive data to remain under local control, while AI creates new questions about how that data is accessed and used. Storage location is only part of the answer. Sovereignty also depends on who operates the environment, which jurisdiction applies and how access and operations are governed.

Sovereign

Sovereignty built into every layer

Data within your boundaries

Keep data, backups and recovery within the required jurisdictional boundary.

Operated by cleared, local teams

Vetted, security-cleared teams based within the required jurisdiction where the service configuration requires it.

Isolated management

Use isolated sovereign management environments to maintain jurisdictional and operational control.

Accredited for regulated work

Certified to international standards including ISO 27001, 27017 and 27018, with national accreditations in place where your jurisdiction requires them.

Continuity within the boundary

Design business continuity and disaster recovery so data and recovery operations remain within required sovereign boundaries.

Connectivity governed by policy

Connect securely to government, health and partner networks and to the rest of your environment, where policy allows.

Control

The highest level of control in private cloud

Sovereign sits at the far end of the private cloud control spectrum. Sovereignty requirements vary by workload and organization. Some apply to a regulated business unit or sensitive data set. Others extend across infrastructure, operations, personnel and jurisdiction. Rackspace designs sovereign configurations around the level of control each environment requires.

Why Sovereign?

Trusted where where data has to stay home

Government

Public services modernized on fully managed platforms built to national security standards, such as UK OFFICIAL and the NCSC Cloud Security Principles, run by security-cleared local teams on dedicated infrastructure.

Policing and justice

Classified and investigative workloads, from body-worn video to multi-petabyte forensic storage, on isolated infrastructure aligned to national requirements and sized for forces of every scale.

Healthcare

Patient data and clinical systems kept under local control, on platforms engineered to national health data standards such as the NHS Data Security and Protection Toolkit.

Suppliers to government

Commercial organizations that handle public-sector or sensitive data, keeping it in-country on the same sovereign standards, with the AI models they choose.

Financial services

Customer and transaction data held within jurisdiction, with operational resilience evidence ready for supervisors and AI that runs under the same controls.

Critical infrastructure

Utilities and essential services operated with the resilience and control national security demands, from core systems to AI at the edge.

VMware Cloud Foundation, run by one of its most experienced operators

Rackspace has run VMware for enterprises for more than 17 years and is among a limited set of Broadcom Advantage Partners delivering managed services on VMware Cloud Foundation. Licensing is included, the platform stays current and 400+ VMware certifications support the team operating it. For organizations rethinking their VMware strategy, Rackspace provides continuity on a platform their teams already know.

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Private cloud models

We helped pioneer managed private cloud, and we’ve run it every day for 25 years

Rackspace has operated private cloud from early managed hosting environments through today’s VMware Cloud Foundation platforms, supporting some of the world’s most regulated organizations along the way. Multi-tenant or dedicated, in our data centers or yours, sovereign where required and connected to public cloud as needed, each model brings the infrastructure and operating expertise together under one operating model.

Dedicated

Physically isolated infrastructure for workloads that require it.

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Multi-Tenant

Shared VMware Cloud Foundation with isolated environments and capacity on demand.

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Bare Metal

Dedicated physical servers without a virtualization layer for performance-intensive workloads.

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Hybrid Cloud

Private and public cloud connected under one consistent operating model.

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On-Premises

Private cloud operated by Rackspace in your data center or at the edge.

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Enterprise AI Cloud

Full-stack enterprise AI infrastructure and operations, from applications and agents to infrastructure.

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Operating model

Build. Operate. Innovate.

Build

Engineered around your workloads

Architecture, capacity, network and compliance are designed around your requirements, with migration planned by the team that will operate the environment.

Operate

Run like it's our own

Rackspace manages governance, security, reliability, performance and cost 24x7x365, with defined service levels and one team accountable for the environment.

Innovate

Updated as technology advances

New platform releases, hardware generations and AI capabilities are evaluated and introduced as production-ready, keeping your environment current as requirements change.

All the pain has been removed from our usual processes. Now it all works like it should — which, most importantly, allows us to focus on our clinical work and our patients.

- Dr Simon Edwards

Divisional Medical Director, CNWL

customer success

Predictable costs and protected patient data for an NHS trust

Central and North West London NHS Foundation Trust worked with Rackspace Technology to modernize its infrastructure while keeping sensitive patient data secure. The result is a clearer, more predictable cost model, with infrastructure costs cut 15% to 18% through optimization and new technology now delivered in days rather than months. With security maintained through migration and a rapid move to remote working, CNWL can keep moving from legacy systems to cloud services and focus on clinical care.

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Industries

Trusted expertise for industries where the stakes are the highest

Healthcare

Epic and clinical platforms kept available, patient data protected, and a governed foundation ready to move AI from pilot to the point of care.

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Financial services

Core banking and payments modernized with proven recovery, data control and the audit evidence regulators expect, so AI can follow safely.

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Public sector

Sovereign, accredited cloud for citizen services, run by cleared teams, with the control to modernize today and adopt AI when you’re ready.

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Enterprise AI Cloud

Run sovereign AI without compromising control.

Deploy AI inference, models and agents within your sovereign environment, keeping sensitive data within defined jurisdictional boundaries. As part of Rackspace Enterprise AI Cloud, you get the infrastructure, governance and operational expertise to bring AI into production while maintaining control over your data, models and access.

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Bring modern private cloud to sovereign environments

Tell us your jurisdictional, operational and data requirements. A Rackspace sovereign cloud expert can show you how to modernize private cloud and adopt AI while maintaining the controls your environment requires.

FAQ

Common questions about dedicated Sovereign Private Cloud

What is Sovereign Private Cloud?

Sovereign private cloud is a private cloud configuration designed to keep data, infrastructure and operations within defined jurisdictional and control requirements. Rackspace delivers sovereign private cloud on VMware Cloud Foundation, with operating controls aligned to the requirements of each sovereign environment.

How is Sovereign cloud different from data residency in Public Cloud?

Data residency addresses where data is stored. Sovereignty can also govern who operates the environment, where operations occur, which legal jurisdiction applies and how infrastructure and management systems are controlled.

Who operates a Rackspace sovereign environment?

Rackspace sovereign environments can be operated by vetted, security-cleared teams based within the required jurisdiction, with management separated from broader operations according to the requirements of the sovereign configuration.

Which accreditations does Rackspace sovereign cloud hold?

Rackspace sovereign environments are certified to ISO 9001, ISO 14001, ISO/IEC 27001, ISO/IEC 27017 and ISO 27018, with national accreditations by jurisdiction. In the UK these include Cyber Essentials Plus, Public Services Network certification and alignment to NCSC Cloud Security Principles for OFFICIAL and OFFICIAL-SENSITIVE workloads. In the US, Rackspace Government Cloud holds FedRAMP authorization.

What does VMware Sovereign Cloud Partner status mean?

VMware Sovereign Cloud Partner status recognizes sovereign cloud services designed to meet program requirements for data residency, jurisdictional control and locally governed operations on VMware Cloud Foundation.

Can we run AI on sovereign private cloud?

Yes. AI inference and agents can run within the sovereign environment, close to the data they use and under the same operating controls. Rackspace is vendor-neutral and model-agnostic, so you can choose models that fit your policies and use cases.

Can Sovereign Private Cloud connect to the rest of our environment?

Rackspace operates data centers across North America, Europe and Asia-Pacific, connected by a private network. Dedicated environments can be placed according to workload latency, data residency and business continuity requirements.