UnitedLayer, a leading enterprise-managed private cloud provider, today announced it has been named a Leader in the 2026 ISG Provider Lens™ Private/Hybrid Cloud – Data Center Services report. This recognition, published by Information Services Group (ISG), a leading global technology research and advisory firm, positions UnitedLayer as an AI-ready hybrid cloud leading providers for it’s competitive strengths and portfolio attractiveness.
The ISG Provider Lens™ study evaluates providers based on the depth of their service portfolios and their competitive strength in the market. UnitedLayer’s Leader placement reflects the strength of its United Private Cloud™ (UPC) platform, which combines software-defined private cloud, bare metal, container, and serverless options that has features like built-in observability, cloud management, DRaaS, and immutable Cyber vault with built-in 99.999% high availability spanning across 30+ private cloud regions and over 175+ locations worldwide.
“UnitedLayer has been named a Leader in the recent ISG Provider Lens® Private/Hybrid Could study, with the highest Portfolio Attractiveness. The company distinguishes itself through a platform-centric secure private and sovereign cloud hosting model that provides robust infrastructure as a service, with high availability and performance, built-in cloud intelligence and agentic automation, making it a highly credible partner for enterprises seeking resilient, AI-ready and scalable hybrid cloud solutions. It’s flexible private cloud hosting solution helps enterprises improve their resilience, governance, workload portability for hybrid cloud environments, and agentic AI capabilities for autonomous operations.” said Shashank Rajmane, Principal analyst at ISG.
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The 2026 ISG Provider Lens™ study, which evaluated 68 providers across four quadrants, finds that U.S. enterprises are moving away from full cloud migration strategies toward AI-ready hybrid operating models that balance on-premises infrastructure with cloud capabilities. As AI adoption accelerates alongside regulatory pressure and legacy infrastructure demands, organizations are expanding their use of private cloud, managed hosting, and colocation as strategic components of long-term modernization rather than pursuing disruptive rip-and-replace programs.
Enterprises can run GPU-intensive AI and machine learning workloads on United Private Cloud™ Accelerated which provides compliant, sovereign private cloud environments pairing the performance AI solution needs along with the governance, cyber resilience, and instant data recovery for that mission-critical operations.
According to ISG, enterprises are increasingly adopting private and hybrid cloud environments that support GPU-intensive AI workloads while meeting data sovereignty, security, and regulatory requirements a priority most pronounced in financial services, healthcare, and the public sector. The research also finds vendor flexibility rising to the top of enterprise agendas, with organizations seeking 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 position.
Enterprises can also take advantage of United Private Cloud to build and deliver their custom AI solutions or private LLMs faster which provides a huge advantage for data sensitive organizations to regulate, govern and manage their own private AI solutions at scale.
United Private Cloud is built on a powerful orchestration engine that enables Agentic AI application development, intelligent workflow orchestration, and end-to-end workflow design and automation.
In its assessment, ISG highlighted three key strengths that helps UnitedLayer during this evaluation:
Multi-hypervisor hosting flexibility: The UPC foundation supports various hypervisors like KVM, VMware, and Hyper-V which are supported on different form factors like VMs, containers, and serverless scalpable infrastructure powered by one software-defined platform (United Private Cloud) giving enterprises a practical route to rebalance legacy and modern workloads, reduce hypervisor lock-in, and keep performance-sensitive environments closer.
Recovery architecture with lower standby costs: UnitedLayer pairs DRaaS, Cyber vault, and continuous replication with cross-hypervisor recovery design, keeping recovery infrastructure ready but inactive until testing or failover lowering the cost of resilience and making 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 named a Leader by ISG in the Private/Hybrid Cloud segment for the fourth year in a row, and now this year with the highest Portfolio Attractiveness, is a powerful recognition of the vision behind UnitedLayer and our commitment to provide our customers with the highest performing Private and Sovereign clouds including Private AI. Enterprises today need more than hosting, they need a resilient, AI-ready platform that gives them freedom from hypervisor lock-in and 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.”
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