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SANTA CLARA, CA, UNITED STATES, July 17, 2026 /EINPresswire.com/ — UnitedLayer, a premier provider of managed private cloud solutions for enterprises, announced today that it has been recognized as a Leader in the 2026 ISG Provider Lens™ Private/Hybrid Cloud – Data Center Services report. This distinction, published by Information Services Group (ISG)—a globally respected technology research and advisory firm—places UnitedLayer among the top national providers in terms of competitive strength and portfolio attractiveness.
The ISG Provider Lens™ study evaluates providers based on the breadth of their service portfolios and their market competitiveness. UnitedLayer’s Leader designation highlights the power of its United Private Cloud™ (UPC) platform, which delivers a blend of software-defined private cloud, bare metal, containers, and serverless options, along with integrated observability, cloud management, DRaaS, immutable Cyber vault services, and 99.999% high availability across more than 30 private cloud regions and over 175 locations worldwide.
“UnitedLayer has earned a Leader position in the latest ISG Provider Lens® Private/Hybrid Cloud study, achieving the highest score for Portfolio Attractiveness. The company differentiates itself through a platform-centric secure private and sovereign cloud hosting model that delivers robust infrastructure as a service with high availability, strong performance, built-in cloud intelligence, and agentic automation. This makes it an extremely credible partner for enterprises in search of resilient, AI-ready, and scalable hybrid cloud solutions. Its flexible private cloud hosting helps organizations improve resilience, governance, and workload portability across hybrid cloud environments, while also enabling agentic AI capabilities for autonomous operations.” said Shashank Rajmane, Principal analyst at ISG.
A New Era for Enterprise Infrastructure in the Age of AI
The 2026 ISG Provider Lens™ study, which assessed 68 providers across four quadrants, reveals that U.S. enterprises are shifting away from complete 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 the demands of legacy infrastructure, organizations are expanding their use of private cloud, managed hosting, and colocation as strategic elements of long-term modernization—rather than pursuing disruptive rip-and-replace initiatives.
According to ISG, enterprises are increasingly adopting private and hybrid cloud environments that can support GPU-intensive AI workloads while meeting data sovereignty, security, and regulatory requirements—a priority most pronounced in the financial services, healthcare, and public sectors. The research also shows that vendor flexibility has become a top priority, with organizations looking for 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 status.
UPC Accelerated: AI Infrastructure Natively Built Into the Platform
To help enterprises prepare their environments for AI, UnitedLayer’s UPC Accelerated delivers GPU-capable infrastructure as a native component of the United Private Cloud™ platform. Organizations can run GPU-intensive AI and machine learning workloads alongside VMs, containers, and serverless environments on the same software-defined foundation, with the observability, AIOps, policy governance, and FinOps-aligned cost controls extending seamlessly to AI infrastructure. This enables regulated and data-sensitive organizations to deploy AI workloads within compliant, sovereign private cloud environments that combine the performance AI demands with the governance, resilience, and cyber recovery required for mission-critical operations.
Why ISG Named UnitedLayer a Leader
In its evaluation, ISG identified three key strengths that set UnitedLayer apart:
Multi-hypervisor hosting flexibility: The UPC foundation supports KVM, VMware, and Hyper-V alongside VMs, containers, serverless, and GPU-capable infrastructure on a single software-defined platform—giving enterprises a practical path to rebalance legacy and modern workloads, reduce hypervisor lock-in, and keep performance-sensitive environments close.
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, which 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 embedded directly into the hosting platform, reducing alert noise, speeding issue isolation, and supporting consistent policy enforcement across private and hybrid cloud environments.
“Being recognized as a Leader by ISG in the Private/Hybrid Cloud segment for the fourth consecutive year, and now with the highest Portfolio Attractiveness this year, is a powerful acknowledgment of the vision behind UnitedLayer and our dedication to delivering the highest performing Private and Sovereign clouds, including Private AI. Enterprises today need more than just hosting—they need a resilient, AI-ready platform that frees them from hypervisor lock-in and gives them 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. Its 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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