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Because Keepit operates on a predictable recurring revenue model and owns its infrastructure, partners benefit from sustainable margin over the lifetime of the customer, including renewals and expansions, rather than relying on one-off transactional sales.
Why is avoiding hyperscaler lock-in and supporting data sovereignty becoming so important? Hyperscalers bring enormous benefits, but over-reliance creates concentration risk. If
Partners value vendors who say what they’ ll do, do what they say, and stick to the plan.
your production environment and your data protection strategy both sit on the same platform, you’ ve effectively created a single point of failure.
We’ ve seen repeated outages across major cloud providers in the last six months. When those platforms go down, organisations can lose access not just to their applications, but also to their backups. From a resilience perspective, that’ s a serious problem.
From a CIO and CISO standpoint, data sovereignty adds another layer of complexity. Regulatory pressure is increasing, geopolitical uncertainty is rising, and organisations need to know where their data lives and which laws apply to it. Sovereignty is no longer a niche concern, it’ s a board-level issue.
This isn’ t about abandoning hyperscalers. It’ s about balance. Independent data
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