IronShard is S3-compatible object storage for AI agents, built on a decade of EU-funded storage research. Every file is encrypted and split into fragments across multiple storage providers.
We are a spin-off of Chocolate Cloud ApS, a Danish storage company. Our team's work there spans European research projects on encrypting data, erasure-coding it into fragments, spreading those fragments across cloud and edge locations, and deciding where data should live.
Horizon 2020 and Horizon Europe research, each with a public record in CORDIS, the European Commission's database of EU-funded research.
Erasure coding inside secure hardware
Secure big data processing in untrusted clouds, with TU Dresden and Imperial College London. The team ran its erasure coding inside Intel SGX enclaves, so fragments were created where the cloud provider could not see them.
CORDIS record →An encrypted, erasure-coded S3 gateway
A secure cloud continuum across edge, cloud, and HPC, with the University of Stuttgart and Mellanox Technologies. The team built an S3-compatible gateway that encrypts files, erasure-codes them into fragments, and spreads them across cloud and edge storage.
CORDIS record →AI-driven data placement
Machine learning for running systems across edge and cloud, with Inria, TU Delft, and NTT Data. The team built storage that uses AI to decide where data goes, and adapts as conditions change.
CORDIS record →A secure software supply chain
Automated security for software supply chains. The team brought its SkyFlok storage platform in as a use case, with vulnerability checks in the build pipeline and a public Trusted Bill of Materials.
CORDIS record →One storage layer over many owners
AI-driven collaboration between IoT devices and edge resources, with NEC Laboratories Europe. The team builds one storage layer over resources owned by different organisations plus public cloud, through a gateway that keeps working offline.
CORDIS record →Storage for large-scale pilots
A €28 million cloud-edge-IoT platform tested in eight real-world pilots, with 55 organisations including Intel, Schneider Electric, and Telefónica. The team supplies the S3-compatible object storage the pilots use.
CORDIS record →IoT storage that can be queried
A Marie Skłodowska-Curie training network on the Internet of Things, with Aalborg University, TU Eindhoven, and Telefónica. The team hosted two PhD researchers and developed compressed, network-coded IoT storage that can be queried in place.
CORDIS record →Next-generation communications infrastructure
Components and subsystems for faster, lower-energy communications infrastructure for IoT, 5G, and Industry 4.0, with DTU, Aarhus University, and twelve Danish companies. The team led a task.
Project page →Secure storage meets secure computation
A pilot with Partisia and Aarhus University that combined the team's network-coded storage with multi-party computation, keeping IoT data protected in storage, in transit, and in use.
Project page →Green, secure communication infrastructure
Energy-efficient, secure communication infrastructure, from optical fibre and satellite links to 5G and IoT security, with DTU and 18 Danish companies, including KMD. The team is a project partner.
Project website →SecureCloud (grant agreement No 690111) and SERRANO (No 101017168) received funding from the European Union's Horizon 2020 research and innovation programme. MLSysOps (No 101092912), ReSCALE (No 101120962), EMPYREAN (No 101136024), and O-CEI (No 101189589) are funded by the European Union under Horizon Europe. Chocolate Cloud ApS is the beneficiary in each of these six projects. IoTalentum (No 953442) received funding from the European Union's Horizon 2020 research and innovation programme under the Marie Skłodowska-Curie actions. Chocolate Cloud ApS took part as a partner organisation.