ABSTRACT
Consider this; Cloud Service Providers the world over take data centre appliances manufactured in countries with opaque governance and ownership rules, stick a badge on it and then knit these products together in a physical building with security cleared personnel and call it sovereign. Closed source, high cost, layers of licensed software further obfuscate, obscure and needlessly complicate the overall security model as you provide service outcomes to your users. Now consider the alternative; SoftIron manufactures an entire cloud technology from scratch in the United States and Australia with every part of the product realisation process available for audit, and every piece of software compiled from source. It allows government and industry a never before seen ability to examine proprietary technology - at every possible level to ensure probity and provenance. No black boxes, no opaque manufacturing techniques, and absolutely no third parties or state actors involved. Ever. SoftIron’s Chief Technology Officer, Kenny Van Alstyne will take you on a journey through the development of HyperCloud; a totally integrated and supported, intelligent cloud fabric of hardware and software, over a decade in the making. He will describe how rethinking the entire challenge of cloud service provision from the ground up with a singular goal has unlocked unprecedented levels of security, sovereignty and radical simplicity never before seen in the industry. It’s time to get your head out of the clouds.

BIOGRAPHY
Kenny Van Alstyne has served as CTO for SoftIron since August 2021. Previously, as Chief Cloud Architect at leading US Gov’t contractor, Peraton, he was responsible for the invention and development of their cloud platform, CloudSeed, operating today as the FedRAMP-certified Horizon Cloud in mission critical and sensitive cloud deployments across thousands of users in a broad range of US Federal offices, including the US Coast Guard, the Dept. of Homeland Security and the Dept. of Defense. In a career spanning over 20 years Van Alstyne has had extensive experience developing, deploying and managing sophisticated, often mission critical and highly sensitive, cloud and data infrastructure for organizations including the Dept. of Homeland Security, Naval Research Laboratory, the Naval Oceanographic Office, the US Army, and the National Coastal Data Development Center. The driving force behind HyperCloud, his mission at SoftIron, is to bring everything he has learned in building secure, sophisticated and resilient clouds to the wider market in a way that radically simplifies their deployment and ownership. Van Alstyne holds several system and methodology patents and is credited for the original publication outlining the procedure for utilizing US Dept. of Defense smartcards on Linux. He lives near Richmond, VA with his wife and children.