Microsoft Inspire 2022: Data ‘Sovereignty’ Solution For Governments Announced
At Inspire 2022, Microsoft unveiled its latest solution to ensure data sovereignty. The solution, Microsoft Cloud for Sovereignty, will help its customers in the public sector to build and digitally transform their workloads in the Microsoft Cloud while addressing the requirements of compliance, security and policy.
The tech giant said that Microsoft Cloud for Sovereignty will allow its public sector customers to “harness the full power of Microsoft Cloud”. The solution aimed at introducing more controls over customer data and increased transparency to operational and governance processes of the cloud.
Announcing Microsoft Cloud for Sovereignty, Microsoft CEO Satya Nadella said, “It's all built on what we have come to expect from the public cloud - improved resiliency, agility cost, and scale economics. This builds on our innovation with Azure confidential computing, which is already helping customers bring their most sensitive workloads to the cloud”.
The solution is slated to deliver governance, security, transparency and sovereign technology combined with strategic partners which will support the digital transformation of government customers.
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It will also deliver these capabilities that will span the entire Microsoft Cloud from cloud infrastructure, platform services and Software as a Service (SaaS) offerings like Microsoft 365, Dynamics 365 and Power Platform.
Microsoft Cloud for Sovereignty will also have a ‘Sovereign Landing Zone’, which is basically a solution to simplify the architecture, deployment workflow. It will also provide intelligent tools to orchestrate operations of various security services and policy controls in a streamlined manner.
In a separate keynote at the Microsoft Inspire 2022, Vasu Jakkal, Microsoft’s CVP of Security, Compliance, and Identity, said “While respecting the public sector sovereignty customers can specify the country or region of the service secure and control their regulated data and operate with their desired controlled and policies in place”.
“And we are making it easier for partners to work with governments, with new tools and support, including new Azure, confidential computing capabilities that allow customers to encrypt their data while it's in use. And with confidential virtual machines and Azure confidential leisure, your public sector, customers can have more confidence”, she added.
According to a report by Mordor Intelligence, ‘Government Cloud Market’ was valued at USD 22.86 billion in 2020 and is expected to reach USD 59.74 billion by 2026, growing at a CAGR of 17.4 per cent between 2021 and 2026.
The solution will allow Microsoft to match up to the offerings of Amazon Web Services (AWS) and Google Cloud.
