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NuxFamily

A sovereign private cloud in Nigeria, built end to end and operated with you.

A private cloud in Nigeria that works like the cloud you are leaving

Virtualisation, Kubernetes, PaaS and data services in a Nigerian data centre, with self-service, APIs and infrastructure as code. Designed, built and supported by a team that has done this for European banks for over two decades.

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The challenge

The challenge

The CBN circular of June 2026 requires payment transaction data to be stored and managed in Nigeria from 1 January 2027. It covers primary processing, databases, backups, access management, encryption keys and audit logs. For most banks, fintechs and payment service providers, that data sits today on AWS, Azure or Google Cloud in regions outside the country. This is regulatory context, not legal advice; your compliance team owns the interpretation.

The journey with NuxFamily

  1. 01Assess
  2. 02Design
  3. 03Build
  4. 04Migrate
  5. 05Operate
  6. 06Evolve

Every family is delivered through the same six-stage journey, with official 24×7 support and knowledge transfer built in.

Our approach

How we build it

  1. 01

    Assess

    Inventory of workloads, data flows and hyperscaler dependencies. Regulatory exposure per system. Target cost of ownership against current cloud spend. Output: a scoped platform design and a wave plan.

  2. 02

    Design the foundation

    Choose the hypervisor with eyes open. VMware VCF, Nutanix AHV, Proxmox VE or OpenStack, compared on licence cost, support and maturity. Compute, S3-compatible storage and network are sized for the first three waves, not the final state.

  3. 03

    Build the platform layers

    Kubernetes on top of virtualisation, a PaaS for application teams, and the data services the migration will need first: PostgreSQL, Kafka, Valkey, object storage. Everything provisioned as code and reproducible in a second site.

  4. 04

    Give teams a cloud experience

    Self-service portal, APIs, GitOps pipelines and an internal service catalogue. Developers keep the workflow they had on the hyperscaler. The difference is where the data lives.

  5. 05

    Prove the controls

    Data mapping in OpenMetadata, residency evidence, key management inside the country, audit logging with retention. The platform is documented the way an inspector will ask for it.

  6. 06

    Operate and hand over

    Official 24×7 support on the whole stack, monitoring and lifecycle management. Your team shadows ours from day one and ends up running the platform, with NuxFamily behind it.

Outcomes

Outcomes

100 %

of payment data in Nigeria

Processing, storage, backups, keys and logs stay in-country, with evidence to show for it.

0

changes to developer workflow

Kubernetes, GitOps and self-service mean teams keep deploying the way they already do.

1

vendor for the whole stack

One contract and one support line from the hypervisor to the data catalogue.

20+

years of private cloud delivery

The platforms behind Santander, ING, Bankinter, Mapfre and Inditex were built by this team.

Use cases

Use cases

Use case 01

Hyperscaler exit for a bank's payment platform

A commercial bank runs its card and transfer processing on managed services in a foreign AWS region. It needs a Nigerian private cloud that the same applications can run on, with no change to the release process.

Technologies

  • VMware VCF
  • Proxmox VE
  • OpenShift
  • PostgreSQL
  • Apache Kafka
  • Valkey
  • MinIO
  • OpenMetadata
  • Argo CD

Expected outcome

All payment processing, storage and administration in Nigeria, on a platform the bank's team operates with NuxFamily support.

Metric: 0 minutes of payment downtime at cutover

Hyperscaler exit for a bank's payment platformA commercial bank runs its card and transfer processing on managed services in a foreign AWS region. It needs a Nigerian private cloud that the same applications can run on, with no change to the release process. All payment processing, storage and administration in Nigeria, on a platform the bank's team operates with NuxFamily support.1Map workloads and dataOpenMetadata2Stand up the foundationVMware VCF / Proxmox VE3Deploy KubernetesOpenShift4Provision data servicesPostgreSQL · Kafka · Valkey5Migrate by wavesArgo CD6Cut over and evidenceOpenSearch
  1. 1Map workloads and data. Every service, database, queue and bucket is catalogued with its data classification and hyperscaler dependency.
  2. 2Stand up the foundation. Two racks in a Lagos data centre. Hypervisor, S3-compatible storage and network deployed from code in weeks.
  3. 3Deploy Kubernetes. A regulated multi-tenant cluster with namespace isolation, network policies and a signed image supply chain.
  4. 4Provision data services. PostgreSQL with automatic failover, Kafka and Valkey replace RDS, MSK and ElastiCache one for one.
  5. 5Migrate by waves. Non-critical services first, then core processing with logical replication and a defined rollback for each wave.
  6. 6Cut over and evidence. Traffic switched at the network edge. Residency evidence, key custody and audit logs packaged for the regulator.

Use case 02

VMware renewal: evolve or replace the platform

Built on these families

Built on these families

FAQ

FAQ

Not if it is built as a platform rather than a set of virtual machines. We deliver Kubernetes, a PaaS, GitOps pipelines and data services with self-service and APIs. Teams keep the working model they have today.

Over two decades

Built by the team behind the platforms of Santander, ING, Bankinter, Mapfre and Inditex

More than twenty years designing, building and operating private clouds for institutions that cannot afford to fail, and a delivery model where we stay with you from assessment to operation.

See our track record

20+

Years building private clouds

40+

Private clouds delivered

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