Military & Combat HyperCloud | Cloud Native Computing
A Multi-Domain Military Cloud (MDMC) aims at accelerating the OODA loop by providing common situational awareness through the instantaneous capturing, sharing, merging and processing of massive amounts of data from all connected manned and unmanned assets, by supplying predictive intelligence and assisted decision-making, by allowing mission planning and re-planning.
The MDMC will merge data coming from various sources in a trusted and secure way, will turn that data into actionable information thanks to the latest Artificial Intelligence and Machine Learning techniques, and will share the intelligence at each command level: Strategic (Central), Operational (Fog/Deployable) and Tactical (Mobile).
AEROSPACE & DEFENCE AIMS TO ACCELERATE THE ADOPTION OF COMMERCIAL AND DUAL-USE TECHNOLOGIES WITH HIGH TECHNOLOGICAL READINESS LEVELS TO RESOLVE OPERATIVE PROBLEMS QUICKLY, EFFICIENTLY AND ON A LARGE SCALE
The E4 Military & Combat HyperCloud approach
HyperCloud is an innovative private cloud solution for defence, national security and industry customers who demand the highest standards in performance and security.
HyperCloud is the world’s first proven technology for building and running clouds in private, hybrid and air-gapped environments. SoftIron is the first company to have taken a holistic approach to developing a singular and unified cloud technology platform that is secure by design, not by remediation, across its hardware and software components.
HyperCloud’s security controls are built into the bedrock of its technology, ensuring the confidentiality, integrity, and accessibility of its data, from open-source material right up to the highest level of security classifications. Unlike hyperscalers, HyperCloud’s capabilities are available “out of the box”, with no additional licensing required to access any features, compute, or storage capacity. The virtual machines (VMs) within HyperCloud are easily replicated within public clouds like AWS and Microsoft Azure, allowing for effectively infinite, real-time scalability. This turns the public cloud into a business utility, not a bottomless cost centre.
With HyperCloud, users can transform their private and hybrid cloud environments to meet performance targets and increasingly complex and sophisticated data security and sovereignty requirements.
Secure by Design
SoftIron has embedded security as a fundamental element of the system design of HyperCloud through a principle they call Secure Provenance.
In accordance with internationally recognized security controls, HyperCloud sets new standards for reducing the potential number of security vulnerabilities while also increasing the ease of implementing specific and designated security controls.
HyperCloud’s reductive architecture rethinks the anatomy of a cloud. SoftIron’s secure programming ensures that all software code in HyperCloud is compiled from source code or written by SoftIron engineers.
HyperCloud’s task-specific compute, storage and interconnect hardware is 100% designed, manufactured and assembled by SoftIron in the US and Australia.
Across its technology stack, HyperCloud supports a completely transparent audit of its design, manufacturing process, supply chain and individual components to verify its unique approach to secure by design principles.
As a result, HyperCloud has a reduced attack surface, is simpler to audit and secure, and is radically easier to operate, update and maintain.
Enterprise Hosting
HyperCloud integrates compute hardware, network, storage, operating system, virtualization, and container technologies into a singular cloud fabric that can be rapidly and elastically scaled to meet enterprise demands.
From individual organizations with simple development requirements or storage needs, to dedicated mission control clouds requiring rapid data processing and information dissemination to the whole of government and defence with massive payloads, HyperCloud provides a singular technology for more performant, resilient, and proportionally easy to manage cloud environments.
For example, with hyper-scale public cloud simplicity for private cloud deployments, organizations can derive an advantage and critically enable sovereign cloud and data sovereignty initiatives, without relying on foreign companies with opaque processes and complex contractual obligations.
With respect to hybrid deployments, HyperCloud delivers a platform for virtualized and containerized workloads across multiple federated on-premises zones and public clouds, with support for secure multi-tenancy, full programmability, and full lifecycle automation. The ability to federate clouds across domains means application owners can centrally manage their application lifecycle but deploy seamlessly across any number of sites with consistency, even at the edge. Users can orchestrate rapid scaling and descaling of applications between private and public infrastructure-without typical lock-in restraints-from a single interface. And control of the networking stack, along with dedicated storage, helps with reining in IOPS charges.
All of these benefits are compiled within completely sovereign infrastructure: built, maintained and owned locally on your terms.
TACTICAL EDGE
For air-gapped networks with sensitive and classified workloads, HyperCloud is uniquely designed to provide cloud services while running detached from any other network. In other words, the on-demand self-service, resource pooling, rapid elasticity, and measured services in HyperCloud are available in a fully contained environment. Furthermore, the solution has pre-integrated building blocks with automated assimilation, which creates a natively resilient cloud environment that can tolerate more component failure and be set up in a couple of hours, rather than days.
HyperCloud also autonomously installs security and maintenance updates and routine maintenance tasks are handled through a single, highly intuitive user interface, which means if you need to expand it while deployed on a mission, any IT generalist will have enough skill set to do it.
And because our appliances are designed to be highly efficient, you can deliver a fully functioning cloud environment in 8U running on less than 2kW of power, turning any suitably secure location with a standard electrical circuit into an edge environment.
LARGE AND HIGH VOLUME DATA
HyperCloud’s software-defined storage (SDS) can be used to provide an infinitely scalable storage solution for modern workloads like cloud infrastructure, data analytics, and other high-performance computing (HPC) applications. In contrast to using generic storage hardware, HyperCloud’s storage is custom-built with all components integrated to exploit functionality. The result is a scale-out storage solution that runs at wire-speed typically around 150W per 1U appliance. The storage layer provides advanced storage features and interfaces, including:
- Compute Layer Storage: Image and snapshot storage for the compute layer and marketplace.
- Object Storage: A featureful S3-compliant object storage API consumable by apps.
- Guest Layer Block Storage: Persistent storage for virtual machines and containers.
Additionally, HyperCloud has no single point of failure, and the stateless architecture bolsters data security and recovery capabilities. Since HyperCloud nodes are stateless by default, protecting against modification or attacks on the system is as easy as reverting clusters to a “known-good” state. Recovering compromised nodes is as simple as bouncing and rebooting them. This gives HyperCloud outstanding data resiliency with up to fifteen 9’s of durability, which is configurable by service & protocol.
COMPLIANCE
HyperCloud’s proven technology is in use in highly sensitive environments across Australia, the United States and other NATO countries and has been designed to work with Five Eyes nations, the NATO Federated Mission network, as well as other secure frameworks.
The software foundation in HyperCloud is based on a lineage of intellectual property developed and designed for FISMA Systems at the “High” level, including equivalent evaluations such as FedRAMP High and DoD SRG IL-5. In regard to data-at-rest, HyperCloud relies on FIPS-140 compatible cryptographic modules.
Military & Combat HyperCloud
