Look under the hood: Why real sovereignty starts with infrastructure

Why real sovereignty starts with infrastructure

There’s been a lot of talk lately about cloud sovereignty—who owns your data, who controls the systems, and how to make sure critical workloads stay protected.

But in many cases, what’s being sold as sovereignty is really just surface-level change. A local partner here, a different data jurisdiction there. Peel back the layers, and the core infrastructure is often still owned or governed by someone else.

That’s the difference between a label and a system.

At Ilkari, we’ve taken a different approach.

It starts with domain name registration, where we protect privacy and ownership from the outset. From there, our cloud platform runs on bare-metal servers, installed and managed using OpenStack technology. No hyperscaler dependencies. No borrowed infrastructure.

All of it runs inside our own data centres—strategically located, fully owned, and built with local control in mind. And that includes the people too. Our engineers operate and maintain the entire environment, which means we can show you exactly where your data resides, where it’s stored, and how it’s backed up.

You decide. It’s your data—not ours, and certainly not anyone else’s.

There’s growing talk of data repatriation—bringing sensitive workloads back inside national or regional borders. In my view, this is more than a trend. It’s a sign that resilience and control are becoming strategic priorities, not just compliance checkboxes.