Test your sovereignty understanding

Want to know how genuine sovereignty compares to what you have now?

• Is the provider controlled by New Zealand entities?

  Ultimate control

  For eleven years, Catalyst Cloud has been genuinely New Zealand-owned and operated—from our Hamilton and Porirua data centres to our Wellington headquarters.
  
  As a New Zealand located, owned and operated business, all our customers’ data stays safely in Aotearoa, protected by our laws and data privacy rules. Our cloud is fully managed by our own engineers located in New Zealand, meaning there is no jurisdictional risk caused by external or overseas engineers having access to our systems. New Zealand controlled.

• Are all staff with access to customer data employed under New Zealand law?

  Who touches your data

  All our staff are employed in Aotearoa New Zealand, under NZ law.
  
  Our local teams control every layer of our infrastructure: hardware procurement, security protocols, feature development, and strategic direction. When you work with us, you're working directly with the people who built and run the platform.
  
  We offer direct accountability—customers can walk into our offices and meet the people running their infrastructure.

• Can foreign governments access customer data through their laws?

  Real jurisdiction

  Overseas governments may require cloud providers that come under their jurisdiction to hand over the keys to their digital vaults. Even if the data is held in New Zealand, a foreign-owned cloud provider may be forced to comply.
  
  If you are a customer of Catalyst Cloud no foreign jurisdiction can use their laws to access your data.
  
  Read Dr James Every-Palmer KC’s legal opinion on the jurisdictional risk associated with hosting data in a cloud provider with foreign ownership.

• Where do profits and intellectual property go?

  Economic sovereignty

  Catalyst Cloud is owned, operated and controlled by New Zealanders. No other cloud provider operating here can claim that. Our team is close to our customers, and every dollar spent on our cloud services drives local innovation, employment and growth.
  
  At Catalyst Cloud we’re here to support the growth of Aotearoa’s digital economy.

• Who makes final decisions about data access?

  Ultimate authority

  As a New Zealand company, we can hold your data securely on these shores under NZ law.
  
  Catalyst Cloud ensures that your decisions can not be over-ruled by foreign governments or foreign-owned businesses.
  
  This fact leads our customers to see a ‘logical answer’ to their Data Sovereignty questions.
  
  For Tohu Media, who are creating digital fingerprints to protect indigenous content and cultural heritage in the age of generative AI, data sovereignty was non-negotiable. As co-founder Kandy Wahanui-Peters explains, "sovereignty is important as it gives us a voice over our data." Tohu Media ensures everything is physically located and run from Aotearoa New Zealand in companies headquartered here, enabling all their data to be protected by New Zealand law. Most critically, this means no Māori data would be uploaded to a non-New Zealand cloud provider during their AI identification process. For Tohu, final decision-making authority had to rest in New Zealand hands, under New Zealand law, with no risk of foreign government override. The only logical answer was Catalyst Cloud.

Hear what others think

Read about out some of our recent case studies of people and organisations who are winning with genuine sovereignty.