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SAP NS2 puts a border around the cloud
The cloud promises to go everywhere. SAP NS2 makes a business of controlling where it goes, who can touch it, and how government gets its work done.
Rupert Taylor-Price and the cloud that had to stay home
Before sovereign cloud became a national talking point, Rupert Taylor-Price was building software for government. His next venture, Vault Cloud, turned a question about who controls Australian data into a business - and a sustained argument about who gets to build the country’s digital future.
DSS Spent 35 Years Making the VA's Old Software Useful - Now It Wants to Be the Cloud Underneath It
The Florida health-IT firm built a business around a stubborn idea: hospitals do not always need a new record system - they need the one they have to stop fighting the people who use it.
Vault Cloud
Vault Cloud is a 100% Australian-owned and operated hyperscale cloud provider built exclusively for security. Founded in 2012 by Rupert Taylor-Price, it was the first cloud certified by the Australian Signals Directorate for classified government workloads. Running on an OpenStack architecture across sovereign data centres in Sydney and Canberra, Vault serves federal and state government, defence, and critical-infrastructure customers with PROTECTED, SECRET and TOP SECRET-grade cloud services, all staffed by security-cleared personnel under Australian jurisdiction.
Kion
Kion is a Columbia, Maryland software company that builds a self-hosted FinOps+ platform for managing cloud operations across AWS, Azure, Google Cloud, and Oracle Cloud. Founded in 2018 as cloudtamer.io and rebranded as Kion in 2021, the company combines cloud financial management, policy-based governance, and continuous compliance into a single platform that runs inside a customer's own cloud environment. Its software is used by commercial, higher-education, and government organizations - including NASA, the CDC, Verizon, and Indeed - to control cloud spend, enforce guardrails, and automate account provisioning through retirement.