Multi-cloud & hybrid
The problem. Real estates are not on one cloud. Data, identity, and workloads are spread across two or three hyperscalers plus on-premises systems, each with its own governance model. Standardizing on any single provider's platform means either migrating everything or accepting a governance gap between the parts you did move and the parts you did not.
The approach. System9 is one data and security plane that sits across providers rather than inside one. It governs sources where they live, federates identity and catalogs from every environment, and runs the same way in each, so the platform is portable across a hyperscaler contract instead of being a bet on one.
Why it fits
| Need | How the platform supports it |
|---|---|
| One plane across clouds | The same cell model runs in any environment; cells federate into nodes across sites and providers. |
| Govern foreign sources in place | Register warehouses, object stores, and catalogs from any cloud as federated sources and govern them without moving the data. |
| No single-vendor coupling | Standard protocols in both directions, the PostgreSQL wire, open table formats and identity standards, so no capability depends on one provider's proprietary surface. |
| Keys per environment | Key custody bridges to each cloud's KMS, or stays in-platform, with a bring-your-own-key registry. |
| Consistent policy everywhere | Deny-closed governance and classification apply identically in every environment. |
One plane, many environments
Figure: one governance plane spans the clouds and on-premises systems the estate already runs on, rather than requiring consolidation onto one of them first.
Across the deployment matrix
Multi-cloud and hybrid programs typically run multi-cell, mixing cloud-enabled and sovereign/on-premises connectivity. Every capability is designed to hold across that full matrix. See Choose a deployment.
Related
- Interoperability: federate identity, storage, keys, BI, and agents over standard protocols.
- Deployment topology, reference topologies across sites and providers.
- Reference · Interfaces, the standard protocols that keep the platform provider-neutral.