By Alejandro Casas, Christian Linacre
Publication Date: 2026-04-28 12:00:00
The isolated cloud has arrived. Most providers can’t keep up.
Geopolitical volatility. Data sovereignty mandates. High-profile cloud outages cascading across continents. The pressure on companies and governments to control where their data is stored and who can access it has never been greater.
In his new study, “How to Successfully Deploy an Isolated Private Cloud.” (February 2026, G00839693)We believe Gartner analysts provide sound, independent insights for evaluating siled private cloud solutions: infrastructure designed to run full cloud services in customer-controlled environments, potentially without connectivity to the outside world.
The takeaway that should be most important to every CIO, CISO, government and defense technology leader evaluating this area:
“There is largely an inverse correlation in the market between architectural cohesion and operational independence, with optimization for one attribute typically detrimental to the other. However…