Private Cloud: The Foundation for Data Sovereignty and Advanced Security

In the global digital transformation wave, data has become the core driver of modern economic growth. However, as data value increases, so does unprecedented focus on its security and sovereignty. According to UNCTAD, 77% of countries (194 total) have either enacted data security/privacy laws or proposed drafts, including the EU, US, China, Russia, India, Australia, Canada, and Japan.

This trend clearly shows modern data protection legislation has become a global consensus. Enterprises operating internationally must comply with increasingly complex regulations or face severe penalties and reputational risks, creating urgent need for solutions that ensure true data sovereignty with military-grade security.

In today’s complex data sovereignty landscape, enterprises require comprehensive defense systems to ensure security, compliance, and autonomy. Private/enterprise clouds, with their localized deployment and high controllability, are becoming the cornerstone of such systems.

Private/Enterprise Cloud: Establishing Data Localization and Operational/Technical Sovereignty

As the foundation of data sovereignty, private/enterprise clouds’ core advantage lies in ensuring complete data localization—keeping data within jurisdictional boundaries. This allows enterprises to deploy sensitive data and core systems in their own physical environments or through trusted local third parties, avoiding cross-border transfer risks and compliance challenges. ZStack Cloud and ZStack ZSphere virtualization products deliver comprehensive compute, network, and storage virtualization with multi-tenant management, ensuring full data control and effective localization.

Beyond localization, private clouds grant operational sovereignty—giving users high control and transparency over cloud services. Enterprises can flexibly configure resources, manage access, customize security policies, and gain deeper infrastructure visibility, freeing them from external providers’ opaque standards. ZStack CMP multi-cloud management platform unifies access to environments like AWS, Azure, Alibaba Cloud, and GCP, offering standardized service catalogs and granular operations to enhance sovereignty.

Furthermore, private clouds provide technical sovereignty through self-owned architectures. By adopting platforms with independent R&D and IP like ZStack’s proprietary cloud platform, enterprises avoid vendor lock-in and maintain technical continuity amidst geopolitical or supply chain risks.

Data Transmission & Encryption: Building Trusted Exchange Frameworks

While ensuring localization, secure data transmission and encryption remain critical. The International Data Protection Association’s 2023 report shows hybrid encryption combining China’s SM4 and AES-256 algorithms meets both China’s Data Security Law and EU GDPR requirements, reducing cross-border latency by 18% with error rates below 10^-9. This high-strength encryption satisfies stringent compliance while enabling secure data flows.

ZStack’s cryptographic evaluation solution ensures compliance in encryption, integrity protection, and authentication. Whether through loosely-coupled traditional hardware security modules or tightly-coupled cloud cryptographic pools, ZStack builds military-grade data transfer and storage barriers. Its Cloud Host Security Solution provides virtual patching, agentless protection, intrusion detection, antivirus, and web reputation capabilities for comprehensive pre-event defense, real-time attack handling, and post-event forensics.

Through ZStack CMP’s unified multi-cloud management, enterprises can establish departmental data sandboxes with dual isolation of model services and application data, fostering collaboration while preserving sovereignty.

ZStack: Let Every Company Have Its Own Cloud

As a leading infrastructure software provider in the AI era, ZStack has been committed since 2015 to “let every company have its own cloud.” Its product matrix covers virtualization, enterprise cloud platforms, container platforms, distributed storage, hyperconverged systems, cloud-native HCI, multi-cloud management, and database cloud platforms. ZStack AIOS, its next-gen AI infrastructure, decouples heterogeneous computing silos to optimize AI performance and adoption. Recognized by Gartner as a Chinese AI Infra representative, ZStack promotes cloud democratization globally through proprietary architecture and open-core principles. Supporting nine languages, ZStack Cloud has helped 4,000+ enterprises digitally transform, including 1,000+ VMware-to-ZStack migrations.

FAQs

Q1: How can enterprises ensure data sovereignty amid global legislation?
A: By deploying private clouds for data localization and selecting transparent, controllable platforms like ZStack that grant operational and technical sovereignty through complete resource control and independent architectures.

Q2: What are ZStack’s advantages in secure data transmission?
A: ZStack’s cryptographic solution complies with SM4 and AES-256 hybrid encryption standards, meeting global requirements while reducing latency. Its productized security integration ensures end-to-end confidentiality and integrity.

Q3: How does VMware-to-ZStack migration enhance data sovereignty?
A: ZStack’s professional migration services enable gradual transition from VMware to private clouds, shifting from external dependency to autonomous control and strengthening sovereignty.

Q4: How does ZStack’s private cloud grant operational/technical sovereignty?
A: Through comprehensive management interfaces and APIs for full resource control (operational sovereignty), plus self-developed architecture avoiding vendor lock-in (technical sovereignty).

Q5: Beyond localization, how does ZStack fortify data sovereignty?
A: Via multi-layered security including host protection (virtual patching, intrusion detection), audit sandboxes, and ZStack CMP/Zaku’s multi-tenant isolation for model/data separation without cross-border transfers.