Lightedge —
Managed Cloud, DRaaS & Compliance Infrastructure

Lightedge is a fully managed cloud provider — meaning they do not simply hand you infrastructure and leave you to operate it. Lightedge designs, deploys, and manages your cloud environment 24/7, including security monitoring, compliance management, patching, and incident response. While Lightedge leverages AWS, Azure, and IBM Power Cloud as underlying platforms, their value is the operational wrapper around them. As a top 1% AWS partner globally and North America's largest IBM Power Cloud provider, Lightedge brings deep platform expertise to organizations that need more than self-service IaaS.

Lightedge has built the largest managed IBM Power Cloud practice in North America — making them the go-to provider for organizations running IBM i (AS/400), AIX, or Power-based ERP systems like JD Edwards, SAP, or Infor CloudSuite. Many banking, manufacturing, and healthcare organizations still run mission-critical workloads on IBM Power hardware. Lightedge enables those organizations to migrate Power workloads to a managed cloud environment without re-platforming to x86 or public cloud — preserving the application stack while modernizing the infrastructure model.

Lightedge maintains a comprehensive HIPAA compliance program that includes executing Business Associate Agreements (BAAs), designing PHI-compliant infrastructure, maintaining audit logging and access controls, and conducting regular risk assessments. Their managed cloud environments are architected to meet HIPAA Security Rule requirements from the ground up — not retrofitted. For healthcare organizations, this means the cloud infrastructure layer is covered within their compliance program, reducing the scope of what the organization needs to manage internally.

Lightedge engineers DRaaS solutions to meet stringent RTO (Recovery Time Objective) and RPO (Recovery Point Objective) requirements defined collaboratively with each client during the design phase. Actual targets depend on workload complexity, replication frequency, and failover architecture, but Lightedge's DRaaS platform supports near-zero RPO configurations with continuous replication and sub-hour RTOs for most workloads. Lightedge also provides tested DR runbooks and regular failover testing — critical for industries where unverified DR plans fail during real incidents.

Yes — Lightedge's Infrastructure & Cloud practice is specifically designed for multi-cloud and hybrid cloud environments. They can manage workloads across AWS, Azure, IBM Power Cloud, and on-premises infrastructure under a single managed services engagement. This is particularly valuable for enterprises that have evolved organically into multi-cloud footprints and need a single operational partner with expertise across all platforms — rather than managing separate relationships with each hyperscaler's professional services team.

Lightedge supports a comprehensive set of compliance frameworks including HIPAA for healthcare, PCI DSS for payment card environments, SOC 2 Type II for general security assurance, NIST frameworks for cybersecurity risk management, and banking/financial regulations including FFIEC and OCC guidance for credit unions and banks. Their compliance practice is designed for regulated industries where the cloud infrastructure must be demonstrably compliant — not just technically capable of supporting compliance. Lightedge provides audit-ready documentation, compliance reports, and evidence packages for client regulatory reviews.