From the emerging (AI and intelligence) to the mundane (privacy and compliance) to the existential (security and control), we believe that networks, connections and the movement and control of data is foundational to the success of every important business.

Unfortunately, available solutions are often a black box of proprietary services rooted in an age before deployable software was the norm - with a limited surface area for innovation.

Network and edge capabilities, although critical to your product, software and business success often lie in a silo in a 3rd party CDN, a telco or a network team you can't control, integrate deeply into your innovation cycle or take with you to private or custom locations.

So why not build your own network cloud the way you'd build and deploy apps? The answer is that its just too...darn...hard!

At Datum, we're on a mission to change that by unlocking a better way for technology providers and consumers to connect with the advantages that help them win.  

To make it happen, we're building an open network cloud that you can run anywhere — on our managed global infrastructure or with native federation to locations you control in public or private clouds.

We're building that value in the open under a AGPL v3 license and treating partner technologies as key ingredients to the equation.

• We’re focused on data and network latency sensitive workloads that run in software, so our first effort is to provide a global runtime built for service provider operability with the "creature comforts" of access, observability, integrations and operations built into a robust cloud control plane.
• We’re building features to help folks programmatically leverage superpowers like global backbones, deterministic routing, private interconnection, large infrastructure footprints and more. Think super human networking powers for the average joe.
  
• We’re baking technology partners and their commercial models into our platform from the start so you don't have to choose between a closed network cloud that 'just works' and an open DIY toolkit you have to hand craft at every step of the journey.
  
• We expect to launch our initial set of cloud services in 2025 and leverage a federated model for infrastructure that allows customers to control more of their environment while we launch scaled capacity in our managed cloud. Our focus is on open source contributors, technology partners, and early design customers.

If you’d like to read more about our vision and thesis, click here.