Sovereign hosting for sensitive data
Problem: a medical company hosted health data with a US provider subject to the Cloud Act, in potential GDPR and HDS regulation violation. Solution: migration to a sovereign HDS-certified host (OVHcloud), application containerisation, data encryption at rest and in transit, logging setup. Result: HDS and GDPR compliance achieved, zero service interruption during migration.
Problem
a medical company hosted health data with a US provider subject to the Cloud Act, in potential GDPR and HDS regulation violation.
Solution delivered
migration to a sovereign HDS-certified host (OVHcloud), application containerisation, data encryption at rest and in transit, logging setup.
Result achieved
HDS and GDPR compliance achieved, zero service interruption during migration.
Why this matters for SMEs
This case shows how clear scoping, fit-for-purpose tooling and explicit gain tracking turn a business need into an operational result for an SME.
How to evaluate this case
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