IBM has launched Sovereign Core, a software stack that aims to offer enterprises and governments full operational control over sovereign cloud deployments without relying on hyperscaler-managed regions.
Sovereign deployments, typically, try to combine cloud benefits with strategic autonomy. They are IT infrastructures that have been set up locally, ideally in isolated cloud environments, to ensure complete national or organizational control over data, operations, and security, while ensuring compliance with local laws, such as data residency regulations.
Unlike traditional sovereign clouds from Microsoft or Google that hinge on dedicated data center locations, IBM’s Sovereign Core, expected to be available in tech preview in February, is trying to make sovereignty an inherent property of any software or application that an enterprise or government wants to deploy, enabling customers to run workloads on their own hardware, local providers, or even other clouds.
