by Mark Albertson
When a company such as Google LLP demonstrates leadership in large-scale data systems, advantages can begin to accrue in areas not readily apparent from the keynote speeches and press releases.
One of these involves the sovereign cloud.
Google itself made no major announcements during Google Cloud Next in Las Vegas this week specifically on the sovereign cloud, the storage and processing of data with a geographic area to ensure compliance with local regulations and standards. But that may well be because several of Google’s partners did all the talking for it.
Over the past few days, Red Hat, Kyndryl, Samsung, Accenture and Elastic made announcements of new collaborations with Google on sovereign initiatives. These ranged from support for Red Hat OpenShift on Google Cloud Dedicated for residency and technological autonomy to Kyndryl’s decision to expand its Distributed Cloud services with Google to maintain control over where data resides and how it is governed.
