BlackBox Hosting bets on Everpure and points to growing UK sovereign cloud demand

For much of the past decade, data sovereignty in the UK (and the rest of Europe, in many ways) was a concern for the cautious and the regulated. The hyperscalers made a persuasive case over the past decade - that security, scale, and innovation was provided at a price no private provider could match. Procurement followed the path of least resistance and public sector and commercial buyers alike were pulled into consumption-based models before the implications were properly understood.

However, over the past 24 months or so, we at diginomica have certainly noticed that the mood has shifted. Geopolitical tensions have given the abstract concept of sovereignty a very concrete meaning, and the US Cloud Act has moved from vague regulatory concerns to a boardroom priority. BlackBox Hosting, a UK-based managed private cloud provider with 13 years of self-funded growth behind it, thinks that the moment it has been building towards ...