For all the excitement around AI and digital transformation in Life Sciences, a real pressure point is infrastructure. Organizations are racing to support data-hungry workloads, enable global collaboration, and meet rising regulatory expectations—while managing rising cloud costs and the operational strain of increasingly complex environments. With these pressures mounting, many are rethinking their cloud strategies and looking for models that offer greater control without sacrificing agility.
Public cloud delivers scale, but for many Life Sciences companies, it also introduces friction: unpredictable costs, shared infrastructure, limited transparency, and governance gaps that simply don’t meet GxP standards. The result? A strategic pause—and a shift.
Private cloud is emerging as the model of choice for Life Sciences teams that want to move fast, stay compliant, and maintain full control over their data, applications, and costs. It’s no surprise then that 79 percent of cloud decision-makers are already implementing internal private clouds, signaling a broader shift toward models that deliver more governance, predictability, and customization.1 In fact, 83 percent of CIOs plan to move some public cloud workloads back to private cloud or on-premises environments—part of a broader recalibration of enterprise cloud strategy.²
One Cloud Doesn’t Fit All
Public clouds are built for broad access, not deep control. They’re great for scale, but not for specificity. Private clouds deliver the same agility and speed, but with the customization, security, and governance that complex, regulated environments actually demand.
It’s one thing to run a basic workload in a shared cloud. It’s another to support clinical trial systems, bioinformatics platforms, or AI models trained on sensitive patient data.
Life Sciences organizations face infrastructure needs that public cloud isn’t designed to meet:
- Compliance-heavy environments with FDA 21 CFR Part 11, HIPAA, GxP, and global data privacy frameworks
- Validated systems that require strict change control and auditability
- Cost models that support predictability—not volatility
- Custom performance profiles for research tools and secure collaboration
Private cloud meets these demands with enhanced security, greater control, and infrastructure tailored for operational, compliance, and interoperability needs. It also supports seamless hybrid integration, critical for organizations operating across legacy systems and emerging technologies.
Tailored Infrastructure for Regulated Innovation
Private cloud provides the workload flexibility needed to support everything from high-performance R&D to routine operations. It combines the best of cloud (scalability, rapid provisioning, and elasticity) with Life Sciences-specific requirements: environmental control, data sovereignty, GxP alignment, and financial predictability.
Unlike many public cloud offerings, NexusTek’s private cloud is purpose-built for hybrid environments, giving Life Sciences organizations the ability to modernize on their terms without disrupting what already works. It’s a platform designed to bridge legacy systems and next-gen workloads, enabling innovation within the guardrails of a highly regulated industry.
But getting there isn’t easy. Standing up a private cloud environment on your own is complex, requires dedicated resources and deep expertise, and—if not done right—can introduce new layers of operational and regulatory risk. For many Life Sciences organizations, those requirements slow progress and drain already stretched IT resources. If building private cloud were simple, more companies would already be there.
When delivered as a managed service, private cloud removes the burden of DIY infrastructure—freeing teams to focus on advancing research, accelerating clinical outcomes, and maintaining regulatory confidence. At the same time, it preserves the transparency and control required to meet industry standards.
That’s why the global private cloud market is projected to surpass $125 billion this year, growing at more than 30 percent annually through 2031.3 That momentum reflects the urgency, and the opportunity, Life Sciences organizations face today.
A Cloud Platform That Understands Life Sciences
NexusTek Private Cloud delivers a secure, tailored, and fully managed environment designed to meet the demands of Life Sciences—without the tradeoffs of public cloud. Whether you're running sensitive, regulated workloads or supporting day-to-day operations, we provide the flexibility to match your infrastructure to your needs.
Choose from two purpose-built deployment models:
- Virtual Private Cloud: A secure, multi-tenant environment ideal for standard workloads, offering scalability, cost-efficiency, and quick access to core cloud services.
- Dedicated Private Cloud: A single-tenant environment purpose-built for regulated workloads, with maximum control, isolation, and configurability.
NexusTek Private Cloud combines infrastructure aligned with Life Sciences compliance, seamless integration with existing environments in a hybrid cloud–ready architecture, fixed pricing for financial predictability, high-performance security built for sensitive data, built-in resilience features, and white-glove, consultative support—from implementation to optimization.
Because innovation doesn’t happen in one-size-fits-all infrastructure. It happens in environments built for the complexity—and possibility—of what’s next, including seamless migrations backed by a 100 percent success rate. Our environments are engineered to support AI and high-performance workloads, with available GPU resources to accelerate analytics and model training. We act as an extension of your team, delivering strategic guidance to navigate the complexity of cloud, compliance, and innovation.
Cloud Infrastructure That Moves Science Forward
In Life Sciences, speed matters. So does control. So does compliance. And too often, cloud strategy forces a tradeoff.
Private cloud changes the equation. It’s how forward-thinking organizations innovate and operate with confidence; with the visibility, validation, and security they need to move fast and stay compliant. And with a proven partner like NexusTek, they gain more than infrastructure—they gain an expert-led cloud strategy designed to maximize value, minimize risk, and keep science moving forward.
With NexusTek Private Cloud, the infrastructure finally fits the science. Learn more
- Forrester, Private Cloud Market Insight, Nov 2024
- Barclays, CIO Survey Report, 2024
- Cognitive Market Research, Private Cloud Services Market Report 2025, Jan 2025
