Omnissa extends Sovereign Solution for Workspace ONE to servers and more countries

At Omnissa ONE 2025 in Amsterdam, we launched the Omnissa Sovereign Solution (OSS) for Workspace ONE to address a very specific need: giving organizations with sovereignty requirements a modern endpoint management service that runs entirely inside their legal jurisdiction.

We first made the solution available in Germany and Austria with GEMA International Hosting as a certified local partner. GEMA hosts the Workspace ONE UEM service in its own data centers or runs it within a qualified customer's data center. GEMA also operates the service day to day, delivers support, and holds the customer contract.

Omnissa never contracts with the customer and has no access to the customer environment. That separation helps you meet sovereignty obligations that go well beyond regional hosting.

A year in market: what we learned

 A year into rolling OSS out with GEMA as lead service provider, we've seen significant traction among regulated customers in government, defense, financial services, and critical infrastructure. For many of these customers, the procurement question has shifted from where the data lives to who controls the environment. This has made us more confident in the model, and it has also shown us which part of sovereignty is hard.

Compliant local infrastructure isn’t the hard part. In most European markets, you can find and buy certified in-country capacity. What's scarce is a 24x7, in-jurisdiction, certified operations and support capability for a modern endpoint management service. Resident staff who can respond to an incident at three in the morning. Certifications maintained year after year. Audit evidence produced on demand. That's a permanent operating function, not a project with an end date.

That’s the part our partners solve, and it’s why we measure OSS expansion by the reach of certified partners and markets first, and features second.

What’s new for OSS?

At Omnissa ONE Amsterdam this year, we're extending the solution on three fronts.

More markets

The complete solution is available in Austria, Germany, Spain, the Czech Republic, Slovakia, South Korea, and India. We plan to add more markets across EMEA and Asia Pacific in phases over the next six months. A local delivery partner or GEMA affiliate certified for that market serves each one.

More endpoints

OSS now supports Windows Server management and security. Windows Server management reached general availability in Workspace ONE UEM in May 2026, and it's now available on OSS. If you’re a regulated organization still running Workspace ONE UEM on premises because legal mandates keep you out of the public cloud, you can now move servers and desktops to the sovereign deployment model together.

More capabilities

We're also bringing new capabilities to deploy AI resources at the edge, with safety guardrails built in. The new “AI as a resource” feature in Workspace ONE lets IT to manage AI resources—including large language models (LLMs), skills, agents, and Model Context Protocol (MCP) connectors—like any other resource in Workspace ONE UEM. Bring your own model, pull one from a repository, or upload a file, then configure, deploy, and govern it from the same console your IT team already uses to manage and secure endpoints. The feature enters beta in early 2027.

Sovereignty that goes beyond hosting

Hosting location is where most sovereignty conversations start. It isn’t where they should end. These additions build on capabilities that already set OSS for Workspace ONE apart:

Dual admin workflow

OSS automatically routes critical or high-impact changes for secondary review. That gives you stronger governance and audit readiness, so a single mistake, whether from a person, an AI agent, compromised credentials, or a rushed change, doesn’t reach the whole fleet.

Role-based separation of duties

Partner and customer administrators operate the environment with separate, policy-driven privileges. The customer keeps oversight and control of policies, devices, and identities without taking on day-to-day data center operations.

Customer-held encryption keys and continuous compliance

Customers hold their own encryption keys through native bring-your-own-key (BYOK) capabilities. Native desired state management enforces configuration compliance continuously instead of auditing it periodically.

Contracted via a local partner

The customer signs the service contract with the partner, not with Omnissa. This breaks the global terms-of-service chain that complicates sovereignty audits, and it closes a gap that regional hosting alone can't.

Code consistency with our commercial cloud service

Sovereignty doesn’t need to be a forked or frozen service, as was common with traditional, customer-managed on-premises deployments. With OSS, new capabilities arrive on the same release schedule as our commercial SaaS, so customers get the latest features and security updates.

Why now, and why this model

Sovereignty has quickly moved into procurement conversations. In April 2026, the European Commission awarded a six-year sovereign cloud contract worth € 180 million to European providers, evaluating bids against its own Cloud Sovereignty Framework. Operator jurisdiction and exit plans now appear as line items in buying decisions. Buyers must show that they manage supply chain and concentration risk. Vendors must show where a service runs, who operates it, and how a customer can leave.

AI raises the stakes. Organizations want to run local and open-weight models inside their own boundaries, and they need a managed way to deploy them. Taken together, the NIS2 Directive, the General Data Protection Regulation (GDPR), national sovereignty mandates, and the transparency requirements in the EU AI Act point to three commons themes:

1. Contain what an agent can reach.
2. Localize where it runs.
3. Prove what it did.

Many people describe Europe's regulatory rigor as a brake on AI adoption. We see it as a specification, and a workable one. With Omnissa and OSS, customers no longer need to choose between AI ambition and control. You get a secure, in-jurisdiction place to run AI, along with control over the last mile where it runs: the endpoint.

Where to learn more

If sovereignty is on your agenda, talk to your OSS local delivery partner, or contact your Omnissa sales team to connect with the right partner in your market.

Visit the Omnissa Sovereign Solution page to learn more about the solution and our certified partners.