This theCUBE Research interview, hosted by Bob Laliberte of theCUBE Research, principal analyst, features Viral Mehta of Wind River, vice president of engineering; Grant Challenger of Wind River, global director of ServiceNow solutions; and Neeraj Jain of ServiceNow, senior director of product management. The panel draws on telecom and cloud engineering experience to discuss ServiceNow’s private stack on Wind River, sovereign on-premises deployments, lifecycle automation, observability, hybrid cloud models and the implications of artificial intelligence for data locality and regulatory compliance.
Jain notes that software as a service remains the primary model but demand for sovereign private stack accelerates, driven by geopolitics, regulation and AI locality; they emphasize the importance of lifecycle automation and observability for regulated and distributed deployments. Mehta highlights Wind River’s cloud-like operating model, automated blueprints, multi-site orchestration and layered self-healing that support six-nines availability; they stress how automated recovery and comprehensive observability enable predictable operations across sites. Challenger observes reduced operational cost, simplified vendor support and new regional revenue opportunities for service providers deploying the joint solution; they outline edge AI use cases and distributed deployment models that preserve data sovereignty while enabling cloud-native scale.
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Viral Mehta, Neeraj Jain & Grant Challenger | Enabling Sovereign Cloud
May 6, 2026
Neeraj Jain
Senior Director of ProductServiceNow
Bob Laliberte
Principal AnalysttheCUBE Research
HOST
Viral Mehta
VP EngineeringWind River
Grant Challenger
Global Director - ServiceNow SolutionsWind River
This theCUBE Research interview, hosted by Bob Laliberte of theCUBE Research, principal analyst, features Viral Mehta of Wind River, vice president of engineering; Grant Challenger of Wind River, global director of ServiceNow solutions; and Neeraj Jain of ServiceNow, senior director of product management. The panel draws on telecom and cloud engineering experience to discuss ServiceNow’s private stack on Wind River, sovereign on-premises deployments, lifecycle automation, observability, hybrid cloud models and the implications of artificial intelligence for d...Read more
