The 9systems
Storage System
It’s your data. Stop spending trust.
S3-compatible storage across independent cloud backends. Your data is encrypted, split into fragments and spread across backends you choose, in the locations you choose, with the redundancy you choose. No single backend can read it or lose it, and neither can 9systems.
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How it works
- Plain S3 in front. Your applications, backups and tools use it like any S3 bucket. No code changes.
- A set of cloud backends behind. 9systems stores your data across several independent backends, from the providers and locations you choose.
- Encrypted, then split, then stored with redundancy. No single backend can read your data or lose it.
- You own every piece. The 9systems server and all backends run in your accounts, on your infrastructure.
What you gain
Sovereignty
No one can cut you off from your data. You choose the level of redundancy and how your data is spread across vendors, jurisdictions and locations.
Confidentiality
No one can read your data: not 9systems, not any single backend, not even someone who breaks the encryption. A fragment on its own is useless.
Resilience
Your data survives accidents, outages and political shifts. If a backend, a region or a whole jurisdiction becomes unavailable, your data stays retrievable.
Tradeoffs
Cost depends on your setup. Compared with a single cloud, it can come in lower or higher.
Latency is higher than with a single cloud, because every read gathers fragments from several backends. So 9systems is better suited to cold and warm data than to hot data.
Working with us
You stay in control. The server and the cloud accounts are in your name; nothing changes without your approval.
We operate without access. Running the system never gives us access to your data, and you can always see what we do.
You pay the clouds directly. Their bills go to you, not through us. 9systems charges separately for its service.
A safe way out. If we part ways, your data stays in your accounts, and your system doesn’t go dark overnight.
9systems is an early project, developed with great care.
We are looking for design partners and pilot customers who want to shape where it goes.