ETS Innovations launches locally hosted cloud platform targeting South African enterprise compliance demands

Prime Cloud combines IaaS, PaaS and SaaS in a single environment built around data sovereignty and regulatory alignment.

ETS Innovations, a South African technology solutions provider, has announced the launch of ETS Prime Cloud, a locally hosted cloud platform aimed at enterprise organisations operating under local regulatory and data residency requirements. The platform is scheduled to go live at the end of April.

The offering consolidates infrastructure as a service, platform as a service and software as a service into a single environment, covering compute, storage, networking, data management, analytics and enterprise applications such as ERP and HCM. By hosting all workloads within South Africa, ETS Prime Cloud is positioned to help organisations in regulated sectors, including financial services, healthcare and the public sector, meet the requirements of the Protection of Personal Information Act without routing data through international infrastructure.

The platform is built on technologies including Exadata and Private Cloud Appliance, designed to support high-performance database workloads and mixed-use environments. For business continuity, it incorporates Real Application Clusters and Data Guard to maintain availability and support disaster recovery operations. OCI-compatible APIs and Kubernetes Engine allow organisations to deploy and scale applications while retaining governance over their environments.

ETS also provides fully managed services covering monitoring, patching and infrastructure optimisation, alongside support for hybrid deployments that allow organisations to integrate legacy systems with cloud-native applications without requiring a full migration.

According to ETS, the platform addresses a specific gap in the South African market where public cloud alone has not consistently met local performance, compliance and cost predictability requirements, particularly for organisations managing data-intensive or business-critical workloads.