What Does Combine Solve?
Delivering commercial software to the classified National Security sector cloud regions (such as C2S, SC2S, Azure Secret / Top Secret, and others) is very difficult because there are high technical barriers to entry, organizational policies and workforce limitations.
Technical
Barriers
Technical
Barriers
The National Security sector’s classified cloud regions (C2S, SC2S, Azure Secret / Top Secret and others) have intrinsic technical differences that often make them incompatible with commercial cloud native software and solutions.
Organizational
Policies
Organizational
Policies
Different members of the National Security sector have disparate rules and processes governing the access and administration of classified cloud regions. This makes it a challenge to support a consistent software baseline.
Workforce
Limitations
Workforce
Limitations
Many cleared engineers are new to cloud technologies and existing commercial cloud experts lack National Security clearances or citizenship to work in classified cloud regions. There is also an increasing decline in the number of clear software developers/engineer tue to various economic and social factors.
Combine bridges the technical gaps between cloud regions, accounts for organizational differences, and provides access to a broader workforce with the skills needed to deliver modern cloud engineering.
Migration / DevOps
Environment
Technical
Emulation
Combine reproduces technical differences that exist between classified cloud regions and their commercial counterparts such as:
- Authentication / Authorization
- Service Parity
- Air Gapped Networking
- Cloud Service Endpoints
Unclassified / Cloud
Native
Combine is a DevOps environment / sandbox that is deployed in commercial or US Government cloud regions. Thus it is fully unclassified and accessible to all commercial staff.
Experienced Support
Team
Combine is supported by an team of DevOps engineers with extensive experience migrating software to classified cloud regions. All of that experience is integrating into Combine or delivered via our seasoned support team.
Why Sequoia Combine?
There are two major use cases for Sequoia Combine:
(1) Migrating commercial software solutions to classified cloud regions
(2) Developing in commercial cloud and delivering to classified cloud (low to high devleopment) for National Security customers.
Acceleration
Combine helps you solve migration problems before they happen on the customer site
Access
Combine enables you to leverage your entire staff (including non-US Citizens) to solve migration problems
Support
Combine gives you access to cleared software engineers with extensive experience supporting the National Security Security
Proven Results
Combine has successfully migrated over 80 solutions for 60+ difference clients
Low to High DevOps
Combine enables a development paradigm where a solution is developed on the low side in Combine and transferred to the high side for customer deployment via a DevOps pipeline.
Cost Savings
Combine enables a development team to find problems, early, utilize skilled but uncleared workforce, and control their DevOps workflow driving down costs.
Professional Services Support
If desired, Sequoia can augment your development team with cleared professional services resources to fill staffing gaps or facilitate deployments.
Combine for AWS
Fully emulates AWS C2S and AWS SC2S via:
- Authentication and Authorization emulation
(CAP and SCAP API and business workflow) - Air Gapped Network configuration
- C2S / SC2S AWS Web Service Endpoints
- Service Parity emulation
- Dashboard that proactively reports migration issues
Combine for AZURE
Fully emulates Azure Secret via:
- Air Gapped Network configuration
- Azure Secret Web Service Endpoints
- Service Parity and API Version emulation
- Dashboard that proactively reports migration issues