Sovereignty
Ration Sovereign Collaboration
Your data stays on the continent that governs it — or inside your own building, if that is what the policy says.
Sovereignty is a location question before it is a legal one
Data sovereignty is often reduced to a contractual clause. In practice it comes down to three concrete questions: which physical data centre holds the data, which legal jurisdiction governs that building, and who can be compelled to hand over what is inside it.
A clause cannot change the answer to any of those. Where the infrastructure sits can.
Regional infrastructure, owned and operated
Ration Cloud runs from regional data centres across Africa, so residency, jurisdiction and control stay where your policy requires them. Lagos is live today, with four additional regions planned, on identical hardware in every region — owned and operated by Ration rather than resold from someone else's platform.
That ownership is the point. A regional endpoint in front of infrastructure controlled elsewhere relocates the latency, not the jurisdiction.
Or keep the hardware entirely in your own hands
Ration can be deployed on your own on-premise infrastructure, or hosted for you inside a managed service provider's cloud. Same platform, same modules — sited wherever your organisation needs it to sit.
In an on-premise deployment your existing security controls apply directly to the environment, which usually shortens the accreditation conversation considerably: you are describing your own estate rather than attesting to a vendor's.
- Ration Cloud — regional data centres, Lagos live, four regions planned
- On-premise — your hardware or IaaS, your controls
- MSP — hosted for you by a partner, many tenants from one deployment
Sovereignty that survives the exit
A platform that keeps your data in the right country but makes it impossible to retrieve has solved the wrong half of the problem. Ration speaks ActiveSync, IMAP, POP3, SMTP, CalDAV and CardDAV, so mail, calendars and contacts stay portable by default and export whenever you ask for them.
Sovereign should mean you are in control, including in control of leaving.
Built here, not adapted
Most collaboration platforms were designed for other markets and adapted afterwards — which shows up as meeting latency, billing in a foreign currency and support hours in the wrong timezone. Ration is built for the region it serves, with local hosting, low-latency meetings and contracting in local currency where available.
Questions we get asked
Where does our data physically reside?
On Ration Cloud it resides in the regional data centre you select — Lagos is live today, with four further regions planned. Ration can also run entirely on your own on-premise infrastructure or inside a managed service provider's cloud.
Does Ration own the data centres?
Ration Cloud runs on identical hardware in every region, owned and operated by Ration.
Can we move to on-premise later?
Yes. The platform and its modules are the same across the cloud, MSP and on-premise editions, so the deployment model can change without changing the product.
What stops this becoming lock-in?
Ration speaks the same open standards as everyone else — ActiveSync, IMAP, POP3, SMTP, CalDAV and CardDAV — and your data exports whenever you ask for it.
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Sectors
Government collaboration
A communication and collaboration platform that can satisfy residency, jurisdiction, security and procurement requirements without making the software worse to use.
Assurance
Secure messaging
Security that comes from how the platform is built and where it runs, rather than from a certificate on a marketing page.
Platform
Collaboration platform
Mail, chat, meetings, calendar, contacts, tasks, notes and forms in a single workspace — with one policy engine deciding access across all of them, and a choice of where the whole thing runs.
Platform
Enterprise collaboration
One workspace, one admin console and one policy engine across departments that have each been buying their own tools for years.
Not sure where Ration fits?
We will scope it with you before you commit to anything.