nxtvault — Storage built for the next decade

What ships today

Real capabilities. Real hardware. On your terms.

Single-chassis storage appliance. A production NAS / SAN appliance with the enterprise feature set unlocked: NFS, SMB, iSCSI with active-active multipath, NVMe-oF target, native dataset encryption, snapshot replication, and HA pairing.

Distributed clusters at production scale. Multi-node software-defined storage with our hardening profile, multi-tier device-class placement rules, and integrated key management. Block, object (S3-compatible), and file from one cluster.

Standard server hardware. We procure, configure, and ship on industry-standard servers — rack form factor for cloud-scale, short-depth ruggedised form factor for the edge. Single-source: storage software and hardware on one purchase order.

Deployment + operations. Idempotent infrastructure-as-code deploys, integrated observability and alerting, audit pipeline, and signed-update mechanism. Air-gap-ready by design.

The three pillars

One platform. Three buyers.

A single foundation underneath three product profiles — so engineering, compliance, and operations work amortises across markets that today demand a separate vendor. The shared platform ships now; pillar-specific certifications and SKUs land progressively.

AI-Ready Storage

Block, object, and parallel file on one cluster — designed for GPU training, low-latency inference, and RAG workloads.

Low-latency NVMe-class block storage for inference
S3-compatible object storage for training datasets
Parallel file access for distributed training
GPU-direct data path on the roadmap
Mid-market entry pricing — not hyperscale-only

For: mid-market enterprise AI teams, sovereign AI clouds, vertical-AI scale-ups.

Rugged Defence

A 2U/4U appliance designed for forward operating bases — two-layer encryption, tamper-aware boot, air-gap-friendly operation.

Runs on industry-standard ruggedised server hardware
Two-layer encryption (self-encrypting drives + volume-level keys)
Hardware-anchored measured boot and tamper response
Air-gapped operation with signed-update mechanism
Hardening profile reviewed against defence baselines

For: defence and government customers needing forward-operating-base or tactical-edge storage.

Audit-Anchored

WORM storage with Merkle-tree audit trails anchored to public blockchains — an open-source-verifiable evidence layer.

WORM (write-once read-many) retention + signed audit log
Cryptographic anchoring to public ledgers for third-party verifiability
Open-source verifier — auditors run the check themselves
Designed to support modern audit-trail recordkeeping requirements
Available as a standalone appliance or as a sidecar on existing storage

For: regulated finance recordkeepers, healthcare records, pharma supply-chain, government records, ransomware-resilient backup.

Engagements

Three ways to deploy with us.

Pick the engagement that fits where you are. Each is a fixed-scope, paid piece of work with a concrete deliverable.

Architecture engagement

Two-to-four week paid assessment. We map your storage workloads against our roadmap and produce a deployment design and bill of materials.

Workload & capacity discovery
Reference architecture for your environment
Compliance gap-map (IRAP / CMMC / SEC 17a-4 as applicable)
Bill of materials + indicative pricing
Signed deliverable, not a sales deck

Best fit: CIOs / heads of infrastructure planning a 12–24 month storage refresh.

Audit-anchor pilot

Six-to-eight week paid pilot. We deploy our cryptographic audit-trail layer on top of your existing storage and produce a regulator-defensible evidence chain.

WORM retention configured to your retention policy
Cryptographic anchoring to public ledgers
Open-source verifier delivered to your auditors
Audit-trail recordkeeping mapping for your industry
Pilot result: a working audit chain you keep

Best fit: compliance officers at broker-dealers, RIAs, healthcare, pharma, government records.

Design partnership

Six-to-twelve month strategic engagement. We co-design and co-deploy a tailored variant of the platform on your hardware, with founder-level access and joint roadmap influence — in exchange for reference status.

Direct line to founders and engineering
Joint roadmap influence on the pillar that matters to you
Preferred pricing on the production deployment
Joint case study and co-marketing
Limited slots — one partner per pillar

Best fit: sovereign AI clouds, defence and government with prior storage refresh budget, regulated-industry adopters.

What you get on the platform

One platform. Standard protocols. Strong defaults.

Customers don’t buy storage technology — they buy outcomes. Below is what the platform will do for the applications and operators on top of it. Built on industry-standard, open-source storage technology — the same building blocks that power hyperscale clouds, hardened by us.

Multi-protocol

BlockNVMe-class low-latency volumes for databases, VMs, and inference workloads.
ObjectS3-compatible buckets for AI training data, lakehouses, and backups.
FileParallel file (NFS) and SMB shares — no proprietary client driver required.

Encryption & keys

At restTwo-layer encryption — self-encrypting drives plus volume-level keys.
In transitTLS 1.3 across cluster traffic and client connections.
Key managementCustomer-controlled key broker; per-tenant key namespaces.

Tamper-evidence

WORM retentionObject-lock retention with policy-driven expiry windows.
Public-chain anchoringCryptographic proof of integrity verifiable without trusting us.
Open-source verifierAuditors run the check themselves — no vendor lock on evidence.

Operations

Single consoleOne UI, one API, one tenancy model across all storage profiles.
Kubernetes-nativeCSI driver and operator for block, file, and object volumes.
Air-gap supportSigned-bundle updates; no outbound vendor telemetry by default.

Form factors

Cloud-scale rackStandard rack servers for AI clusters and audit deployments.
Ruggedised edgeShort-depth, environmentally-hardened servers for forward and tactical sites.
GPU-convergedStorage and compute on the same fabric for AI training and inference.

No lock-in

Open foundationsBuilt on production-grade open-source storage technology, hardened for enterprise.
Standard protocolsNo proprietary client drivers; your apps connect with what they already speak.
Hardware portabilityStandards-based hardware management; not coupled to a single vendor.

Engineering principle: we build on industry-standard, open-source storage technology where it’s proven, contribute upstream rather than fork, and concentrate our own engineering on the unified control plane and operator experience. Deep technical conversation about the stack? Come and talk to us under NDA.

Hardware

Standard server hardware. Three form factors.

We deliver as a single-source procurement: storage software and hardware on one purchase order, configured and tested before it ships. Three form factors cover the workload spectrum.

Cloud-scale rack Standard 2U rack servers · cloud-scale clusters · audit appliances

GPU-converged High-density GPU systems · storage and compute on the same fabric

Ruggedised edge Short-depth, environmentally-hardened servers · tactical and forward sites

Standards-based hardware management is a design principle — we’re not coupled to a single vendor, and neither are you.

Let’s deploy together.

Building a sovereign AI cloud, refreshing storage at a forward operating base, or modernising an audit-trail recordkeeping stack? Tell us about the workload and we’ll come back with an architecture and a path to deployment.

hello@nxtvault.in partners@nxtvault.in

We respond within two business days.

Storage built for the next decade.