Right this moment, we’re taking the subsequent step in strengthening our European Digital Commitments to empower our clients with larger selection, extra management over their knowledge privateness and probably the most sturdy digital resilience we’ve got ever provided. Constructing on our 42-year historical past as an organization in Europe, we’re increasing our efforts with Microsoft Sovereign Cloud. This provide spans each public cloud and personal digital infrastructure, guaranteeing our clients can select the fitting stability 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 essential 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 clients and authorities companies, our Sovereign Public Cloud is an evolution and enlargement of the Microsoft Cloud for Sovereignty and might be provided throughout all present European datacenter areas, for all European clients, throughout enterprise companies similar to Microsoft Azure, Microsoft 365, Microsoft Safety and Energy Platform. Sovereign Public Cloud ensures buyer knowledge stays in Europe, underneath European Regulation, with operations and entry managed by European personnel, and encryption is underneath full management of shoppers. That is enabled for all buyer workloads operating in our European datacenter areas requiring no migration.
Microsoft’s new Sovereign Personal Cloud will assist essential 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 fulfill resiliency and enterprise continuity necessities.
In France and Germany, our Nationwide Accomplice Clouds provide complete capabilities of Microsoft 365 and Microsoft Azure in an independently owned and operated atmosphere. 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, essential infrastructure suppliers and important companies suppliers that’s designed to fulfill 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 fulfill the German authorities’s Cloud Platform Necessities.
Throughout our Sovereign Public Cloud, Sovereign Personal Cloud and assist for Nationwide Accomplice Clouds, Microsoft Sovereign Cloud affords 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 clients in Europe
Many expertise suppliers have approached sovereignty as area of interest necessities for a novel set of shoppers that require a selected deployment method that at instances 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 fulfill 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 obtainable in all European cloud areas later this 12 months, we’ll introduce new options and options that reinforce this imaginative and prescient.
Asserting Knowledge Guardian
Our EU Knowledge Boundary already offers an industry-leading dedication to retailer and course of your knowledge on infrastructure positioned in Europe. Knowledge Guardian will add a further stage of assurance by guaranteeing that solely Microsoft personnel residing in Europe management distant entry to those techniques. Knowledge Guardian provides further human and technical oversight every time 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 permitted and monitored by European resident personnel in actual time and might be logged in a tamper-evident ledger.
Asserting Exterior Key Administration to increase Azure Managed HSM
Encryption underneath the total management of shoppers offers a further assure of information safety. With exterior key administration, clients 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 similar to Futurex, Thales and Utimaco to make sure their assist.
Asserting Regulated Atmosphere Administration
The Regulated Atmosphere Administration service will enable clients 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 might be on the middle of the client expertise for configuring, deploying and monitoring workloads in assist of sovereign operations. Collectively, these instruments might be on the middle of the client 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 essential, we additionally perceive that some eventualities require sure workloads be run in a bodily atmosphere underneath full buyer management to assist enterprise continuity danger mitigation. Azure Native delivers Microsoft cloud companies in buyer places, enabling organizations to fulfill particular knowledge residency and sovereignty necessities. It contains core Azure capabilities — similar to 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 right this moment and might be usually obtainable later this 12 months.
Asserting Microsoft 365 Native
Microsoft 365 Native offers clients with further selection by bringing collectively Microsoft’s productiveness server software program into an Azure Native atmosphere that may run solely in a buyer’s personal datacenter.
This offers a simplified deployment and administration framework for organizations to run Microsoft’s trusted productiveness servers in environments they absolutely management. Constructed on our validated reference structure and powered by Azure Native, Microsoft 365 Native allows clients to deploy Microsoft productiveness workloads like Change 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, essential industries and controlled sectors that want to fulfill the best requirements of information residency, operational autonomy and disconnected entry.
Constructing a sovereign cloud and AI associate ecosystem for Europe
To assist European clients 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 clients the power to determine Companions who’ve differentiated themselves primarily based on their demonstrated capabilities in supporting their Sovereign Cloud ambitions on Microsoft expertise. Our preview companions embrace Accenture, Arvato Methods, 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 right this 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 atmosphere 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 total 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 affords the perfect mixture of selection, management and resilience for European clients. Microsoft is proud to supply the broadest set of sovereignty options obtainable available on the market right this moment and we’ll consistently search for new methods to make sure our European clients 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 clients, policymakers and regulators as we proceed to innovate.
