The 2026 RAM shortage has turned infrastructure planning into a liabilityand Canadian data residency alone won’t fix it. Why 40-week hardware procurement delays and foreign legal exposure mean true sovereignty requires owning the infrastructure, not just the location.
RAM prices have doubled and lead times now stretch into months, but ThinkOn VPC rates are locked at deployment and haven’t moved during the shortage.
Part three of the data sovereignty series examines whether foreign actors could be lurking undetected in your cloud provider’s supply chain. Read the full ThinkOn blog post.
Vendor lock-in costs MSPs dearly under hyperscaler reseller programs; a channel-first provider removes it structurally by letting partners keep contract ownership. Read the full MSP guide.
An agitated customer call over a surprise cloud bill reveals how hidden ingress and egress fees quietly hamper business growth. Read the full pricing breakdown.
ThinkOn’s sovereign cloud now powers Canada’s national AI infrastructure, serving thousands of federal employees across 23 departments under contract with Shared Services Canada. Read the full sovereignty breakdown.
Canadian data hosted with U.S.-owned providers stays exposed to American law via the CLOUD Act, regardless of where servers physically sit. Read the full sovereignty breakdown.
Most businesses aren’t overpaying for storage capacity itself but for poorly matched tiers; smart tiering protects predictable billing and margins. Explore ThinkOn Object Storage.
ThinkOn takes Sovereign Cloud Partner of the Year in the Broadcom 2025 VMware Cloud Service Provider Partner Awards, recognized for helping enterprise customers adopt VMware Cloud Foundation as private cloud infrastructure.
Australian cloud budgets are overrunning by 17% on average, with nearly half of storage spend coming from fees beyond base capacity. Moving unstructured workloads to flat-rate object storage fixes it at the architecture level. Read the full cost breakdown.
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