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SOFIAH NICHOLE SALIVIO
News Editor
PeaSoup and Vawlt have formed a strategic partnership that combines UK sovereign cloud infrastructure with multi-cloud storage technology.
The agreement is designed to give organisations a way to store and manage data across more than one cloud environment, including infrastructure based in the UK. The approach is intended to help customers avoid concentrating data with a single provider and give them more control over where data is held.
As data volumes rise, businesses face growing pressure around data residency, compliance and service continuity. Multi-cloud strategies have drawn interest from organisations that want to spread operational risk, limit exposure to outages and retain flexibility over where workloads and stored information sit.
Under the partnership, Vawlt’s storage software will be combined with PeaSoup’s UK cloud platform. Customers will be able to distribute data across multiple cloud providers while keeping selected data within UK jurisdiction.
The model is aimed at sectors and organisations that want tighter control over sovereignty and governance requirements. It also reflects broader concern among technology buyers about dependence on one provider’s pricing, product direction or service availability.
Data control
PeaSoup said its infrastructure can support customers seeking to keep sensitive information inside the UK while still using external cloud resources for other workloads. Vawlt will provide the orchestration layer for managing data across those environments.
The companies pointed to resilience as one of the main commercial arguments for the arrangement. By distributing stored data across separate cloud platforms, customers may be able to continue accessing information if one provider suffers disruption.
The design also has implications for business continuity planning. Organisations that rely on a single cloud operator can face operational pressure when a service interruption affects storage or access to data. A multi-cloud setup can offer alternative locations for retrieval and recovery.
Cost pressures
Storage spending is another area the partnership aims to address. Companies are increasingly looking for ways to match workloads with different storage tiers so frequently used data sits on faster infrastructure, while archive or long-term retention data is held in lower-cost environments.
Multi-cloud storage can give IT teams greater freedom to make those trade-offs across providers. That may be especially relevant as many organisations reassess cloud expenditure and try to balance performance, resilience and compliance against tighter budgets.
The two companies also linked the partnership to cyber resilience. Splitting data across independent cloud environments can add another layer to recovery planning by reducing the extent to which a single point of failure affects all stored information.
This may appeal to organisations seeking stronger protection against ransomware, infrastructure failures or operational shocks. Recovery objectives have become a larger boardroom issue as digital operations and regulatory expectations have expanded.
Executive comments
Martin Bradburn outlined PeaSoup’s view of the shift towards more flexible storage models.
“Organisations are increasingly recognising that a single-cloud strategy may not provide the flexibility, resilience, and data control required in today’s digital landscape. Our partnership with Vawlt enables customers to benefit from intelligent multi-cloud storage while keeping critical data within a secure UK cloud environment. Together, we’re delivering a solution that improves resilience, strengthens compliance, and helps organisations optimise storage costs,” said Bradburn, Chief Executive Officer, PeaSoup.
Ricardo Mendes set out Vawlt’s position on the deal.
“Partnering with PeaSoup extends our ability to offer customers greater choice and flexibility in how they manage their data. By combining Vawlt’s multi-cloud orchestration technology with PeaSoup’s sovereign UK cloud platform, we are helping organisations build more resilient, secure, and future-ready storage architectures,” said Mendes.
PeaSoup describes itself as a UK cloud provider with infrastructure built around liquid immersion cooling. It said the approach supports lower energy use in data storage operations, linking the partnership to customer demand for technology services with a smaller environmental footprint.
Vawlt focuses on software that lets organisations store, manage and protect data across multiple cloud environments through a single platform. In practice, the partnership brings together infrastructure based on UK sovereignty requirements and software designed to move and govern data across different providers.
The deal highlights how cloud providers and storage software companies are responding to a market that no longer sees a single-cloud model as the default choice for every workload. Instead, customers are increasingly weighing sovereignty, resilience, procurement flexibility and cost management in how they structure long-term storage.
For PeaSoup, the partnership broadens the appeal of its UK-hosted infrastructure beyond organisations that simply want a domestic cloud host. For Vawlt, it adds a sovereign cloud option to its wider multi-cloud model at a time when data location and governance remain central concerns for many customers.
PeaSoup said its UK-based infrastructure allows customers to maintain sensitive data within UK jurisdiction while using additional cloud resources where appropriate.