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As digital sovereignty becomes a strategic requirement, organizations are rethinking how they deploy critical infrastructure
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Microsoft’s approach to sovereignty is grounded in enabling enterprises, public sectors and regulated industries to participate in the digital economy securely, independently and on their own terms.
Key facts
- With Microsoft 365 Local, teams can communicate, share information and collaborate securely within the same controlled boundary as their infrastructure and AI workloads
- Together, Azure Local disconnected operations, Microsoft 365 Local and Foundry Local help organizations choose where workloads run and how environments are managed, while standardizing governance
- By combining Microsoft’s technological leadership with Proximus NXT’s sovereign cloud expertise, they are enabling their customers to innovate confidently — even in fully disconnected mode,” said Gerard
- Azure Local is designed to scale with mission-critical needs from smaller deployments to larger footprints that support data-intensive and AI-driven workloads
Summary
As digital sovereignty becomes a strategic requirement, organizations are rethinking how they deploy critical infrastructure and AI capabilities under tighter regulatory expectations and higher risk conditions. The Microsoft Sovereign Cloud brings together productivity, security and cloud workloads to span both public and private environments. To support these confidential environments, Microsoft offers full stack capabilities that support customers across connected, intermittently connected and fully disconnected modes. Azure Local disconnected operations (now available) – Organizations can now run mission-critical infrastructure with Azure governance and policy control, with no cloud connectivity, optimizing continuity for sovereign, classified or isolated environments. Microsoft 365 Local disconnected (now available) – Core productivity workloads, Exchange Server, SharePoint Server and Skype for Business Server can run fully inside the customer’s sovereign operational boundary on Azure Local, keeping teams productive even when disconnected from the cloud.