Illustrative decision application

Sovereign Digital Infrastructure

Context archetype · Sovereign infrastructure / Digital resilience

A government with a newly commissioned national data centre must decide whether the next priority is utilisation, disaster recovery, expansion, hybrid cloud, connectivity resilience or no new capital.

Decision to unlock: Optimise the existing sovereign asset, build disaster recovery, extend capacity, add a second site, hybridise, or defer?
Why now: Once a sovereign hosting asset exists, the next capital decision should be driven by utilisation, critical workloads and resilience rather than infrastructure momentum.
Value at stake: Continuity of government services, sovereign data control, avoided duplicate capital, lifecycle operating cost and cyber resilience.
Risk if wrong: Underutilised infrastructure, duplicated CAPEX, single-point failures, weak operating capability and vendor lock-in.

STREDGE workstreams

Workload & utilisation truth base

Verify current capacity, actual utilisation, government workloads and external hosting commitments.

Resilience architecture

Define RTO/RPO, disaster recovery, power, telecom and geographic redundancy requirements.

Government cloud economics

Compare sovereign hosting, colocation, cloud and hybrid options on whole-life economics.

Procurement & operating model

Set vendor-neutral requirements, staffing, service levels, security controls and exit provisions.

Government-owned outputs

Sovereign Infrastructure Decision Dossier
Workload & Criticality Register
Resilience Architecture
10-Year TCO Model
Conditions Precedent Register
Operating Model

Possible outcomes

Optimise / Build DR / Extend / Second site / Hybridise / Defer

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