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Leaseweb: Data Sovereignty Is Becoming a Business Strategy, Podcast
By Doug Green “Sovereignty really means control—control of your data, where it resides and whether you can move it.” In this Technology Reseller News podcast, Tim Mandell of Leaseweb expands on the recent TR article, “Sovereignty Is Becoming a Business Strategy – Not Just a Compliance Requirement,” and explains why data sovereignty is quickly becoming an MSP and channel opportunity. Mandell says sovereignty goes well beyond simply knowing where data is stored. The bigger questions are who controls the data, who can access it, what jurisdiction applies and whether an organization can move that data when business or regulatory requirements change. Compliance, he says, may represent a snapshot in time. Sovereignty is about maintaining control as conditions change. That challenge is becoming more important as businesses have spent years moving workloads and information into the cloud—sometimes without knowing exactly where that data ultimately resides. AI adds another layer of complexity. Organizations are creating and storing rapidly growing volumes of conversations, logs, training information and other data. That raises new questions about who can access the information, where it is being processed and whether the organization can retrieve or relocate it later. For MSPs, Mandell sees an opportunity to ask customers a simple question: “If you needed to move your most important data tomorrow, could you?” If the answer is no—or “I don’t know”—the MSP has an opportunity to help. Mandell also cautions against vendor concentration risk. Putting everything with one provider may simplify purchasing, but different workloads and different types of data can require different levels of security, performance, cost and control. That is one reason Leaseweb continues to advocate hybrid infrastructure. Some data may belong in the public cloud, some on bare metal, some at the edge and some in highly controlled environments. “The technology should follow the business outcome,” Mandell says. For MSPs, sovereignty therefore becomes another part of the trusted-advisor conversation: helping customers maintain flexibility, avoid unnecessary lock-in and design infrastructure that can change as their business changes. Read “Sovereignty Is Becoming a Business Strategy – Not Just a Compliance Requirement” on Technology Reseller News, and visit Leaseweb.com to learn more.  
