Six Reasons Private Cloud is Still Relevant in 2025

Six Reasons Private Cloud is Still Relevant in 2025

At Six Degrees we work with businesses across many industries who are re-evaluating their cloud strategies to ensure security, compliance, and cost control. Here are six reasons why private cloud is still relevant in 2025:

1. Regulatory Compliance and Data Sovereignty

Many industries have strict regulatory requirements that public cloud alone cannot always meet. Regulations like GDPR, FCA guidelines, and industry-specific compliance mandates make data sovereignty a top priority for UK businesses. Where your data resides isn’t just a technical detail, it’s a legal and regulatory requirement.

At Six Degrees our UK sovereign Enterprise Cloud means you retain full control over data location and access and compliance with UK and EU data protection laws, ensuring no risk of foreign jurisdiction interference.

2. Performance and Uptime

Private cloud offers dedicated resources with guaranteed performance, reducing latency issues in multi-tenant public environments. It’s an unfortunate fixture of public cloud environments that given their scale and complexity outages can happen – and those outages can be significant.

Six Degrees’ Enterprise Cloud is fully owned and managed by us, and we give our tenants complete control over their contention ratio, compute, and storage. When you host in the Enterprise Cloud you benefit from performance and predictability that aligns to your business’ needs.

3. Cost Control and Predictability

With rising public cloud costs, many businesses are seeking cost-efficient alternatives that provide fixed pricing models. We’ve seen businesses stung by unexpected costs after moving to public cloud – private cloud offers the cost control and predictability that gives confidence that the risk of unexpected costs will be mitigated.

The Six Degrees Enterprise Cloud offers cost predictability relative to other cloud platforms, and our flexible commercial models open up the cloud to CAPEX-centric organisations.

4. Hybrid Cloud Integration

When it comes to cloud there’s never a simple a one size fits all. Many businesses choosing between public and private cloud platforms feel the need to compromise with trade-offs in experience, simplicity, and quality of service.

Fortunately, there is another way. Hybrid Cloud services from Six Degrees remove the trade-offs of choosing between public and private cloud services, delivering the best of both worlds while offering a single, unified experience.

5. Security and Risk Mitigation

Private cloud provides greater control over security, data governance, and infrastructure customisation than standardised public cloud offerings. As a result, security is often the most significant deciding factor when choosing private cloud.

However, technology alone isn’t enough; businesses need the right security expertise and operational support to protect their data effectively. At Six Degrees our end-to-end cyber security services ensure your private cloud forms part of a robust, holistic cyber security posture.

6. Cloud Readiness

For many cloud-native workloads, public cloud is an optimal location – but what about traditional non-cloud native workloads that aren’t ready for public cloud?

The Six Degrees Enterprise Cloud enables you to virtualise traditional non-cloud native workloads either permanently or as part of a phased transition to public cloud.

Private Cloud Isn’t Just Relevant in 2025 – It’s Essential

At Six Degrees we believe the future of cloud is hybrid – and that business’ focus should be on hosting each workload in the optimal cloud, with a unified management wrap to ensure control, security, and compliance.

In a hybrid cloud world, private cloud isn’t just relevant in 2025 – it’s essential. Six Degrees is well placed to deliver private cloud hosting as part of a holistic offering that includes:

• UK-sovereign Enterprise Cloud – keeping data safe, compliant, and in UK jurisdiction.
• Cyber security consultancy – providing expert guidance on securing cloud environments.
• Security Operations Centre (SOC) – 24×7 monitoring, detection, and response.
• Hybrid and multi-cloud expertise – designing secure, scalable, cost-effective cloud strategies.

Want to assess your cloud security? Need guidance on private, hybrid, or multi-cloud strategy? Concerned about compliance and data sovereignty? Let’s talk. Get in touch with our experts to discuss how Six Degrees can secure your cloud future.