Heavy and critical industries now have a structured approach to digital asset governance from RiConnect, an England-based cloud SaaS provider that has outlined a three-part framework for managing large asset populations.
Described as a Tenant-led trinity, the model brings together three components, each addressing a distinct concern: Tenant for organisational accountability, Data Residency for jurisdiction-appropriate data storage and Private Cloud for dedicated infrastructure in regulated environments.
The framework sits within what RiConnect calls its Digital Asset Integrity concept, designed to establish clear ownership and responsibility boundaries across complex asset estates where privacy, accountability and integrity are priorities.
RiConnect UK sales director Rob Whitehurst-Maiden said: “Tenant, Data Residency and Private Cloud are not new concepts to our customers per se, but this Tenant-led trinity helps clients see who has their own space, where their data is stored, and whether the underlying environment is shared.”
Under the Tenant element, an enterprise holds the master subscription and distributes capacity to individual Tenants, which may represent a site, business unit, project or contractor scope. Each Tenant operates in logical isolation and cannot access another Tenant’s information. Data Residency ensures that customer data is stored in a specified country to align with local requirements, configured on a per-country basis.
The company works alongside each customer’s IT and compliance teams to determine applicable obligations, including jurisdiction-specific rules such as those that may apply in Saudi Arabia.
Whitehurst-Maiden said: “Private Cloud does not simply mean that the customer’s data is kept separate. Tenants are logically isolated from one another within a shared cloud environment too; Private Cloud goes further, with infrastructure dedicated to a single customer.”
He also noted that the number of Tenants and data hosting locations need not correspond. A group with four subsidiaries could maintain four Tenants while storing data across four different countries where regulations require it.
Whitehurst-Maiden said: “When an inspection is overdue, maintenance is incomplete or a certificate expires, there is no ambiguity about who owns the issue.”
