Frequently Asked Questions

Self-hosted data control and data sovereignty are related but not the same — and most vendor marketing conflates them in ways that create compliance gaps organizations only discover during audits. Data residency tells you where data is stored. Data sovereignty tells you who has legal authority over it and under what circumstances a government can compel access. Self-hosted data control is the architecture that satisfies both — by keeping data management software inside your o

Most Salesforce backup platforms store your data on their servers. You get a compliance certification, a regional data center option, and a contractual promise. What you do not get is genuine data sovereignty — because the vendor's infrastructure is still in the data path during processing. Bring-your-own storage for Salesforce backup changes that. Your backup software runs inside your own environment. Your data writes directly to your own storage. Sesame Software's servers a

Evaluating self-hosted backup for data residency requires a different framework than standard backup evaluation. Standard evaluation focuses on features — backup frequency, restore granularity, compliance certifications. Data residency evaluation focuses on architecture — where does data actually go during processing, who has access to it during transit, and which jurisdiction governs the vendor's access to your data. Most organizations discover the difference between these t