Protecting Your Data Means Protecting Your Business
It is sometimes said that data is the black gold of the 21st century. And with good reason: the volume of data produced worldwide each year is growing exponentially. By 2025, the total amount of data generated worldwide is expected to reach 180 zettabytes.
To put that into perspective, a single zettabyte represents the storage capacity of approximately 250 billion DVDs. The vast majority of this data is stored in the “cloud”—on networks of servers located around the world and accessed through the Internet.
In reality, however, these infrastructures are far from “neutral.” Most are owned by major U.S. technology companies, particularly the GAFAM giants, which hold a significant share of the global and Canadian markets for hosting and online business services. For example, approximately 70% of the 250 most popular websites in Canada are hosted in the United States.
Yet a company’s data goes far beyond its website. It includes communications, management tools, customer databases, and internal files. Every piece of hosted data is an essential part of your business operations. In some cases, this strategic information may also be subject to foreign legislation such as the U.S. CLOUD Act, which can allow U.S. authorities to seek access to data controlled by U.S.-based service providers, regardless of where the servers are physically located. In a white paper published in 2020, the Canadian government described this situation as a “major risk to data sovereignty.”
Are you developing innovative solutions or protecting valuable intellectual property? Imagine what losing control over this strategic data could mean for your organization. Digital sovereignty is therefore much more than a compliance issue—it is a matter of business resilience and competitiveness.
In this context, local hosting becomes much more than a technological choice: it is a business decision. More and more sovereign cloud solutions that are 100% local are being developed to help keep data under Canadian jurisdiction and physically hosted within Canada.
Choosing sovereign infrastructure means providing your customers and partners with a reliable, compliant, and secure environment.
Want to talk about hosting your data on Canadian soil? At Globotech, keeping your data safe is our specialty.
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