Enterprise Private Cloud with Private AI
SANTA CLARA, CA, UNITED STATES, July 20, 2026 /EINPresswire.com/ — UnitedLayer, a premier provider of enterprise-managed private cloud services, has been designated a Leader in the 2026 ISG Provider Lens™ Private/Hybrid Cloud – Data Center Services report. This distinction, released by Information Services Group (ISG), a prominent global technology research and advisory firm, highlights UnitedLayer as a top AI-ready hybrid cloud provider due to its competitive strengths and portfolio attractiveness.
The ISG Provider Lens™ study evaluates providers based on the breadth of their service portfolios and market competitiveness. UnitedLayer’s Leader status underscores the capabilities of its United Private Cloud™ (UPC) platform, which integrates software-defined private cloud, bare metal, containers, and serverless options. The platform includes built-in observability, cloud management, DRaaS, and an immutable Cyber vault, delivering 99.999% high availability across more than 30 private cloud regions and over 175 locations worldwide.
“UnitedLayer has been named a Leader in the recent ISG Provider Lens® Private/Hybrid Could study, with the highest Portfolio Attractiveness. The company distinguishes itself through a platform-centric secure private and sovereign cloud hosting model that provides robust infrastructure as a service, with high availability and performance, built-in cloud intelligence and agentic automation, making it a highly credible partner for enterprises seeking resilient, AI-ready and scalable hybrid cloud solutions. It’s flexible private cloud hosting solution helps enterprises improve their resilience, governance, workload portability for hybrid cloud environments, and agentic AI capabilities for autonomous operations.” said Shashank Rajmane, Principal analyst at ISG.
The 2026 ISG Provider Lens™ study, which assessed 68 providers across four quadrants, indicates that U.S. enterprises are shifting from full cloud migration strategies toward AI-ready hybrid operating models that balance on-premises infrastructure with cloud capabilities. As AI adoption accelerates alongside regulatory pressures and legacy infrastructure requirements, organizations are increasingly using private cloud, managed hosting, and colocation as strategic elements of long-term modernization, rather than pursuing disruptive rip-and-replace programs.
Enterprises can run GPU-intensive AI and machine learning workloads on United Private Cloud™ Accelerated, which offers compliant, sovereign private cloud environments that combine the performance needed for AI solutions with governance, cyber resilience, and instant data recovery for mission-critical operations.
According to ISG, enterprises are increasingly adopting private and hybrid cloud environments that support GPU-intensive AI workloads while prioritizing data sovereignty, security, and regulatory compliance—a trend most pronounced in financial services, healthcare, and the public sector. The research also finds that vendor flexibility is rising to the top of enterprise agendas, with organizations seeking platform-agnostic operating models, embedded disaster recovery and cyber recovery, and integrated automation, AIOps, and FinOps capabilities that provide real-time visibility into infrastructure spending. These market demands align directly with the platform capabilities that earned UnitedLayer its Leader position.
Enterprises can also use United Private Cloud to build and deploy custom AI solutions or private LLMs more quickly, offering a significant advantage for data-sensitive organizations aiming to regulate, govern, and manage their own private AI solutions at scale.
United Private Cloud is built on a powerful orchestration engine that enables Agentic AI application development, intelligent workflow orchestration, and end-to-end workflow design and automation.
In its assessment, ISG highlighted three key strengths that aided UnitedLayer during this evaluation:
Multi-hypervisor hosting flexibility: The UPC foundation supports various hypervisors such as KVM, VMware, and Hyper-V, which are available on different form factors including VMs, containers, and serverless scalable infrastructure powered by a single software-defined platform (United Private Cloud). This gives enterprises a practical path to rebalance legacy and modern workloads, reduce hypervisor lock-in, and keep performance-sensitive environments closer.
Recovery architecture with lower standby costs: UnitedLayer combines DRaaS, Cyber vault, and continuous replication with a cross-hypervisor recovery design, keeping recovery infrastructure ready but inactive until testing or failover. This lowers the cost of resilience and makes ransomware-aware recovery attainable for mission-critical hosted environments.
Embedded operations intelligence: Observability, AIOps, cloud management, policy governance, and workflow automation are built directly into the hosting platform, reducing alert noise, speeding issue isolation, and supporting consistent policy enforcement across private and hybrid cloud environments.
“Being named a Leader by ISG in the Private/Hybrid Cloud segment for the fourth year in a row, and now this year with the highest Portfolio Attractiveness, is a powerful recognition of the vision behind UnitedLayer and our commitment to provide our customers with the highest performing Private and Sovereign clouds including Private AI. Enterprises today need more than hosting, they need a resilient, AI-ready platform that gives them freedom from hypervisor lock-in and confidence that their mission-critical workloads can run securely with built-in cloud intelligence and agentic automation. This recognition belongs to our customers and our team, who push us every day to raise the bar for what a private and sovereign cloud can be.”
— Abhijit Phanse, CEO, UnitedLayer
About UnitedLayer
UnitedLayer is the world’s leading private cloud solution provider, empowering enterprises with secure, high-performance infrastructure powered by the latest Agentic AI innovations. Our offerings include UnitedConnect®, UnitedEdge®, UnitedSecure™, and the United Private Cloud® Suite, now enhanced with Enterprise Private Cloud with Private AI, featuring UPC Sovereign Cloud, United NaaS, UPC AI Factory, UPC Container Cloud, UPC DR Cloud, UPC DRaaS, UPC Accelerated and UPC Cyber vault. Complementing this portfolio are Unified Observability, Agentic Orchestration, and Cloud Management capabilities that deliver intelligent automation, real-time visibility, and centralized control across the entire stack. Together, these solutions provide an enterprise-grade PaaS and IaaS experience with premium features such as 99.999% availability, software-defined agility, and seamless multicloud connectivity.
About ISG Provider Lens™
The ISG Provider Lens™ Quadrant research series is the only service provider evaluation of its kind to combine empirical, data-driven research and market analysis with the real-world experience and observations of ISG’s global advisory team. ISG (Information Services Group) (Nasdaq: III) is a leading global technology research and advisory firm, serving more than 900 clients, including many of the world’s top enterprises. For more information, visit www.isg-one.com.
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