SoftIron launches sovereign cloud hardware AUKUS
“World’s first” AUKUS Sovereign Tactical Edge Cloud on display in Canberra.
Cloud infrastructure company SoftIron has demonstrated its AUKUS Sovereign Tactical Edge Cloud (ASTEC) to politicians in Canberra as part of the official launch of the technology.
ASTEC is a single, stackable hardware solution that can provide secure, scalable storage and computing power in challenging environments and deployments. It comes in a rugged 10U case rated for protection against vibration, shock, water, and sand, with eight server nodes within an additional 2U of space for components like additional cabling or encryption hardware.
SoftIron showed ASTEC up and running with a shared cloud environment between Australia, the US and the UK at an event in Parliament, with Senator James Paterson, Shadow Defense Minister Andrew Hastie, former Prime Minister Scott Morrison and Arthur Sinodinos, former ambassador to the US.
“At the heart of ASTEC is HyperCloud, an integrated platform that simplifies private cloud delivery by taking a highly opinionated approach to deployment across the entire stack, from hardware provisioning to lease management,” said the SoftIron COO Jason Van der Schyff.
“ASTEC’s architecture has the potential to deliver a combination of performance, flexibility, and simplicity in deployment and operation that surpasses any known capabilities currently in use, ultimately removing barriers to rapid and consistent deployments of cloud services in the land”.
