Your Buckets + Our Intelligence = Zero Compromise

IronShard enables organizations to retain full custody of their data while providing an AI-ready intelligence layer for secure, governed access. Unlike traditional cloud storage solutions, IronShard allows you to bring your own buckets and maintain complete ownership, while making your data discoverable, auditable, and usable by AI agents.

Your data stays in storage providers and regions you control, and IronShard provides intelligence, not custody.

AI-Ready Intelligence Without Compromising Ownership

Eliminate cloud lock-in, opaque governance, and single-provider exposure. With IronShard:

• Your organization keeps data in the storage providers of your choice.
• IronShard adds a secure, searchable index and AI-ready access.
• Data is accessible through standard interfaces like S3 while remaining under your control.

This ensures that your datasets are discoverable, compliant, and safe for AI workflows without transferring custody to a third party.

AI-Ready and Compliant

IronShard transforms siloed buckets into AI-ready datasets while enforcing strict governance. Key compliance features include:

• Lineage & traceability: Track data origin and transformations.
• Detailed access logs: Maintain full audit trails for human and AI interactions.
• Region controls & restricted sharing: Limit access by region, account, or tenant.
• Policy enforcement: Configure rules to prevent unsafe sharing and preserve regulatory compliance.

Secure by Design

IronShard assumes no single provider or region is completely secure. To mitigate risk:

• No single provider can reconstruct a complete file.
• Regional or provider outages do not affect data availability.
• Data is converted into redundant, erasure-coded fragments.
• Fragments are encrypted and distributed across multiple providers and regions.

Optimized for Performance

IronShard delivers intelligence without added latency using ML-driven storage optimization:

• Predictive caching positions frequently accessed or “hot” data where AI agents need it.
• Region-aware routing reduces round-trip latency and respects locality rules.
• Smart prefetching anticipates AI access patterns to reduce cold reads and minimize cost.
• Traffic-based rebalancing: Dynamically relocates fragments to regions where they are most often accessed.

How IronShard Works

1. Connect Your Buckets Attach storage endpoints (AWS S3, GCS, Azure, OpenStack Swift, MinIO, etc.) using credentials you control.
2. Index & Govern IronShard builds a secure, searchable index and enforces governance policies, including lineage, retention, and access controls.
3. Fragment & Distribute Objects are encrypted, split into erasure-coded fragments, and distributed across providers and regions for absolute data sovereignty.
4. Serve Intelligence AI agents query the intelligence layer, which validates access, reconstructs data, and returns results securely, without IronShard taking custody of your files.

Benefits for Your Teams

Security & Compliance

• Minimize vendor risk and enforce separation of custody.
• Retain cryptographic control with keys under your management.
• Generate audit trails for regulators and internal auditors.

Data Science & AI

• Accelerate model iteration with queryable, AI-ready datasets.
• Ensure models access only permitted data.
• Enable RAG pipelines without breaking compliance.

IT & Infra

• Avoid cloud lock-in while leveraging existing storage investments.
• Increase resilience with multi-provider, multi-region fragmentation.
• Apply centralized governance without replatforming.

FAQs

What happens if a provider goes down?

Fragments are distributed across multiple providers. IronShard reconstructs files from available fragments according to your configured resilience level and routes access to healthy regions.

How does IronShard support audit and compliance?

Immutable audit logs, lineage tracking, and exportable reports provide full transparency into access, transformations, and policy enforcement.

Summary

1. Connect your bucket(s): follow our Docs for secure onboarding.
2. Configure policies and regions: define who can access what, and where.
3. Start exposing data safely to AI: audit, monitor, and iterate.

IronShard is the only storage layer that lets organizations maintain full custody, leverage multi-provider resilience, and ensure datasets are discoverable, governed, and optimized for AI workloads.