Don’t web-scale, hyper-private scale
Maintain sovereignty over your technology
Let’s talk about scale. There are so many different ways to slice it—scaling, scalability, infinite scale—but when it comes down to scaling at an operational level with your digital assets, the focus becomes clearer.
As the CTO of Ilkari, I hear many companies talk about their challenges with hyper scalers and how, despite how easy it is to start with them, it gets hard to know when they need to scale and who or what is managing and accessing their data—not just transactional data but the granddaddy of all data—big data.
But I can tell you that what we have created at Ilkari is the way forward with data sovereignty on a hyper-private scale.
Data and technology sovereignty challenges
120+ million daily transactions on average
To provide perspective on the size and scale of Ilkari’s operations, one of our current customers operates an online business that processes, on average, more than a hundred million transactions. This volume is at the scale of global payment processors. We also provide the colocation and sovereign cloud platform that underpins that business.
We’re also a trusted advisor guiding them on utilizing colocation and cloud technologies to enable their business. What’s notable about this customer is they operate in a challenging industry that requires adherence to multi-jurisdictional compliance and regulation.
At the same time, they want to retain their privacy and maintain control of their data, and like most companies today, the former often conflicts with the latter.
This conflict frequently required a pivot for them to adopt sovereign technologies such as open-source or self-hosted solutions, making their IT estate significantly more complicated than it needed to be. There just isn’t one solution that can manage the nuances of creating end-to-end sovereignty with technology that’s purpose-built to be sovereign.
Significant cryptocurrency and blockchain transactions
We have other fintech customers that process significant cryptocurrency and blockchain transactions.
For companies operating in Fintech’s sensitive and secure environment, security, privacy, and data protection are critical concerns. Like the previous example, Ilkari acts as a strategic partner, guiding them in leveraging our colocation and cloud solutions to deliver the IT solutions that underpin their business.
Operating at private-hyper scale
Top 300 most visited website
Our customers operate websites regularly appearing in the top 300 most visited US websites. They receive tens of millions of unique visitors every month. We provided disaster recovery strategies and hosted their data mining platform. Given the time-sensitive nature of their business, a few seconds of outage could result in millions of dollars in lost revenue. We have worked closely with them to implement robust redundancy to ensure they’re always online.
We can do this because of the sovereign solutions under our roof. Our new next-generation data centre in Colombia has the TIA 942 C Rated 3 certification. And Huawei’s FusionModule 2000 solutions optimise performance as the workload increases.
10-15k virtual instances
Currently, we have approximately 10-15k virtualised workloads deployed to our cloud platform, highlighting its scalability and elasticity properties. While we know that is not a massive number in the context of the hyperscalers (AWS, Azure, GCP, etc.) with millions of virtual instances across hundreds of data centres, it’s still significant because it represents a complicated enterprise-scale IT deployment.
The variance is because we allow customers to take advantage of dynamically scaling out the footprint of their systems during peak times to cope with demand and then shrink back down during off-peak times.
This on-demand capacity allows customers to manage costs effectively by not having compute resources sit idle and unused. Whilst not unique to our cloud platform, it demonstrates that a sovereign cloud can achieve the cost savings and on-demand benefits available through public cloud providers. So companies have a choice.
Maintain sovereignty over your technology
150+ technologies
Our customers deploy more than 150 critical technologies in our colocation and cloud platform. The portfolio of technologies is rich and diverse, from databases to middleware to hardware-based encryption.
We are giving them access to the flexible advantages of our sovereign solutions, which allow us to host a variety of technologies for our customers. This reflects our experience and expertise in helping customers build bespoke solutions to power their businesses
No one wants to be locked into anything anymore. Our technology diversity demonstrates our customers’ choice in selecting technologies and avoiding the vendor lock-in often associated with public cloud providers. This gives customers control and allows them to maintain sovereignty over their technology.
