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Scalable, secure, and fully managed private cloud built for your business.

Combine the scalability and efficiency of public cloud with the security, control, and transparency of private infrastructure. Lightedge delivers a fully managed private cloud solution that meets your compliance, performance, and operational goals.

Bring security and scalability to your critical workloads with Lightedge private cloud.

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Private cloud that works for you, not the other way around.

Hyperscale clouds can force businesses into their rigid models—resulting in overspending, misconfigurations, and added complexity. With Lightedge Cloud, we design, implement, and manage a fully customized cloud environment tailored to your specific needs.

Flexible Deployment Options

Achieve superior control with single-tenant architecture, or leverage cost-efficient scalability with secure multi-tenant infrastructure.

End-to-End Management

From migration to optimization, we handle the heavy lifting so your team can work on high impact strategic initiatives.

Transparent Pricing Model

No hidden fees, egress charges, or surprises—ever.

Deep Regulatory Expertise

Get the continuous compliance support needed for highly regulated industries like healthcare and financial services.

The Lightedge difference.

We believe private cloud should work for you—on your terms. That’s why we’ve built our solutions around transparency, expert-led support, uncompromising security, and performance you can rely on. With our fully managed approach, you gain the freedom to focus on strategic growth, knowing your cloud environment is optimized, compliant, and backed by dedicated engineers who are always ready to help.

Transparent operations and predictable costs

Eliminate hidden fees with no data egress charges, per-IP costs, or surprise billing, while gaining full visibility and control through our intuitive portal.

Expert led support, around the clock

Extend your IT team with our certified engineers providing round-the-clock monitoring, expert remediation, and hands-on support whenever you need it.

Unmatched performance and always-on reliability

Optimize workloads on scalable, redundant infrastructure with industry leading uptime SLAs to ensure mission-critical performance and availability.

Enterprise-grade security and compliance

Protect your environment with microsegmentation, virtual firewalls, and built-in DDoS protection, while ensuring continuous compliance with HIPAA, HITRUST, SOC 1/2, PCI DSS, and more, backed by proactive threat monitoring and rapid incident response.

Tailor your private cloud with VMware or Nutanix.

Choose the platform that best fits your IT strategy, with Lightedge experts managing the entire end-to-end experience.

Maximize performance with VMware.

Leverage the power of VMware’s virtualization for a high-performance solution that seamlessly integrates with your existing IT infrastructure.

Integrate with existing VMware environment and third-party applications
Customize to your unique needs and cloud experience
Ensure security with comprehensive protocols using NSX
Minimize downtime with built-in redundancy and failover, using advanced DR replication

Flexibility and scalability with Nutanix.

Discover the power of hyper-converged infrastructure, with compute, memory, and storage that is scalable by the node for a fully customized experience.

Scale your infrastructure with business growth, adding GPUs for AI and machine learning as needed.
Enhance performance with efficient resources
Secure workloads with fully integrated robust security features
Recover quickly with built-in DR capabilities, including synchronous and asynchronous replication options.

Explore our private cloud options.

Dedicated Private Cloud

Multi-Tenant Cloud

CUSTOMER STORY / LIGHTEDGE CLOUD

“Lightedge’s infrastructure and expert personnel have allowed our IT team to focus our efforts on, and implement, a sound failover process for our critical global applications.“

Mike Fascian

Worldwide IT Tier III Infrastructure and Security Mgr., Kemin Industries

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How Lightedge private cloud fits your workloads.

Private cloud hosting with Lightedge provides a highly controlled, dedicated IT infrastructure that secures data, simplifies compliance, and streamlines resource allocation.

For regulated industries

Achieve and maintain compliance for HIPAA, PCI DSS, and more with built-in controls and audit-ready infrastructure.

For mission critical workloads

Deploy mission-critical applications in a secure, reliable, and high-performance private cloud environment. Lightedge ensures predictable performance, reduced downtime, and seamless integration with your existing systems—so your most important workloads run without compromise.

For hybrid environments

Extend your on-prem infrastructure with low-latency connectivity to hyperscale clouds like AWS and Azure, and support modern workloads with Kubernetes-ready infrastructure.

Frequently Asked Questions

Private cloud is cloud infrastructure dedicated to a single organization rather than shared across the general public. It delivers the on-demand provisioning, scalability, and self-service management of public cloud, but on infrastructure your organization controls, either physically dedicated hardware (single-tenant) or logically isolated capacity within a provider’s environment (multi-tenant). Organizations choose private cloud when they need predictable performance, defined data location, or compliance controls that a shared public cloud environment cannot provide.

Lightedge private cloud is a fully managed cloud environment built on either VMware or Nutanix, deployed in Lightedge data centers, and operated by Lightedge engineers. Lightedge handles design, migration, monitoring, patching, security, and ongoing optimization. It is delivered from Lightedge data centers across the United States, with direct low-latency connectivity to AWS and Azure.

Four recurring ones. Cost unpredictability, where consumption pricing and egress fees make public cloud bills hard to forecast for workloads that run continuously. Performance variability, where shared infrastructure introduces noisy neighbor effects that steady state applications cannot absorb. Compliance constraint, where a regulator or auditor requires demonstrable isolation and a known data location. And infrastructure burden, where hardware refresh cycles, capacity planning, and virtualization expertise consume staff time that would be better spent on applications. Private cloud addresses all four by giving you dedicated capacity you consume as a service rather than own.

It fits organizations running steady state workloads that need more control than public cloud provides but do not want to own and operate the infrastructure themselves. That commonly means regulated industries where data location and isolation are audit questions, organizations with existing VMware estates facing a licensing or hardware refresh decision, and teams whose public cloud spend has grown faster than the workloads behind it. Lightedge works most often with financial services, healthcare and life sciences, insurance, manufacturing, and SaaS companies. If your estate is small, entirely modern, and running well on a single public cloud platform, private cloud is unlikely to pay for itself.

Single-tenant gives you physically dedicated infrastructure and the highest degree of control, isolation, and performance predictability, the usual choice when a regulator, auditor, or internal policy requires demonstrable physical separation, or when a workload is sensitive to noisy-neighbor effects. Multi-tenant provides logically isolated capacity on shared infrastructure at lower cost, and suits workloads that need private-cloud control without dedicated hardware economics. Most organizations with mixed estates run both. Lightedge offers each as a distinct service, and the decision is usually made per workload rather than once for the whole environment.

If you already run VMware, staying on VMware means your existing tooling, automation, third party integrations, and team skills carry over without retraining, and VCF 9’s NSX gives you mature network segmentation built into the platform. The alternative is hyper-converged infrastructure, which combines compute, memory, and storage in a single node, so you scale by adding nodes rather than sizing each tier separately, and you can add GPU nodes for AI and machine learning workloads as those needs emerge. Lightedge runs both, so the choice comes down to your existing estate, your team’s skills, and where your roadmap is heading rather than which platform you will get better support on.

Choose Dedicated Cloud if you need stronger separation, more predictable performance, stricter governance, or more flexibility for complex workloads. Choose Multi-tenant Cloud if you want a more standardized model and are primarily focused on efficiency, simplicity, and speed. In practice, the right answer usually comes down to compliance requirements, workload criticality, performance expectations, and how much control your team wants to retain.

With colocation, you own and manage the hardware and Lightedge provides the facility, power, cooling, and connectivity. With private cloud, Lightedge owns and operates the infrastructure and you consume it as a service. No hardware refresh cycles, no capacity planning against a three-to-five-year purchase, no in-house virtualization expertise required. On-premises gives you the most direct control and the most operational burden. Organizations typically move from on-premises to private cloud when a hardware refresh or data center lease comes due and the capital and staffing case no longer holds.

Yes. Lightedge data centers provide direct, low-latency connections to AWS and Azure, so private cloud workloads can integrate with public cloud services rather than sitting isolated. The infrastructure is Kubernetes-ready for containerized workloads. In practice most Lightedge private cloud environments operate as part of a hybrid architecture rather than as a standalone island.

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