Digital Sovereignty at the Core

Obmondo’s entire operating model is intentionally designed around digital sovereignty - the principle that you, not your vendor, retain full control over your infrastructure, data, hosting choices, and operations.

Unlike traditional “full-service” outsourcing models that create long-term lock-ins, high switching costs, and opaque dependencies, Obmondo provides technical operations support in a way that keeps ownership, access, and decision-making entirely with your organisation.

Why It Matters: Confidentiality, Integrity, Availability

Information security comes down to three properties: confidentiality, integrity and availability. On services run by US companies, none of the three is fully in your hands.

• Confidentiality. US law, including FISA and the CLOUD Act, lets US authorities demand data from US companies, even when the data is stored in Europe. In 2020 the EU's highest court struck down the EU–US data transfer agreement of the time (Schrems II) because of US surveillance law. Its replacement, the EU–US Data Privacy Framework, depends on a US executive order that any US president can revoke. So the protection of your data rests on a promise from the US government.
• Integrity. On Facebook, Google and AI services, you often cannot tell whether what you create and read is real. Much of it is AI-generated or paid for by companies, and you often cannot verify whether it is factual.
• Availability. A US company has to obey US sanctions, so the US government can cut off anyone it chooses from US services, including Microsoft 365, Visa and Mastercard. The customer has no say in it. After US sanctions in 2025, Microsoft cut off the email of the International Criminal Court's then chief prosecutor, and one of the court's judges had a Visa card cancelled.

You Own the Infrastructure - We Just Operate It

Whether your systems run on public cloud, private cloud, rented servers or on-prem hardware, you remain the owner of the environment.

Obmondo primarily manages the operating system layer - security hardening, patching, compliance, monitoring, backups, recovery planning, and operational continuity - while you stay in full control of:

• The hosting provider
• The servers or cloud accounts
• Application code and architecture
• Root access and administrative permissions

When permitted, we can also manage the hosting layer on your behalf, coordinating with your chosen provider to handle hardware faults, network issues, and base configuration. At the same time, we work closely with your application team or vendor to implement unified logging, alerting, and monitoring, ensuring full operational coverage across both infrastructure and application layers.

This separation ensures no lock-in at the hardware, cloud, or platform level. Your systems stay yours.

No Vendor Lock In: Leave Anytime, at Near Zero Cost

Most managed service providers make switching expensive by embedding proprietary tooling, custom monitoring stacks, or platform specific configurations, made even worse by the high egress fees charged by major hyperscalers.

This creates lock-ins that limit digital sovereignty and make it harder for organisations to meet compliance expectations such as GDPR.

Obmondo intentionally avoids this.

• Subscription is month to month, with no long-term commitments.
• Nothing is tied to Obmondo infrastructure - all monitoring, alerting, backup strategies and configurations are documented and reproducible.
• Because everything runs on your hosts, in a standard, open-source–driven configuration, another provider can take over operations without costly replatforming or rebuilds.

This design ensures that if we ever stop delivering the quality you expect, you can replace us immediately with minimal friction. Your freedom to choose is protected at all times.

A Transparent Open Source Approach

Obmondo’s technical model is built on:

• Standard Linux, Kubernetes, and open-source tooling
• Transparent infrastructure-as-code
• No proprietary agents or black box components
• Documentation of all operational processes
• Collaboration with your developers and ops team for compatibility and on-demand scaling.

This is an extension of a long-standing open-source principle “The freedom to choose”. Freedom to choose your stack, your hosting provider, your vendors - and freedom to switch whenever it’s right for you.

Why We Don’t Offer Traditional SLAs

Conventional MSPs tightly integrate your systems with their hosting, tooling, and SLAs-creating dependency and limiting flexibility.

Because your infrastructure remains yours, Obmondo cannot guarantee:

• Your network reliability
• Your hosting provider’s uptime
• What internal teams may change on the servers you control

Instead of binding you into SLA-based contracts we can’t control end-to-end, we provide a model that empowers you via :

• Full access and ownership
• Standardised security and operations
• Month-to-month subscription
• Zero lock-in
• Freedom to change provider instantly if desired

This is a deliberate trade-off - ultimate control for you, without artificial dependencies on us.