Infrastructure
UBX Editorial5 min read
Where should a nation's data live?
Cloud is a model, not a place. For regulated institutions, the location and operation of infrastructure is part of the risk conversation.
Rows of server racks in a data centre hall
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Every organisation that moves to cloud makes a decision about geography, whether or not it realises it. Latency, regulation, continuity and cost all depend on where workloads physically run and who operates them.
Two sites, one plan
Resilience begins with separation. A production environment and a disaster-recovery environment in different locations turn a catastrophic failure into an inconvenience — provided the recovery plan is tested, not just written.
“A recovery plan that has never been rehearsed is a hypothesis.”
Private cloud and colocation give institutions a middle path: the elasticity of modern infrastructure with clear answers to the questions regulators and boards ask.