Cloudian Adds NVIDIA BlueField-4 STX Support for Agentic AI Security

Agentic AI is reshaping enterprise data infrastructure, demanding new levels of in-silicon security, real-time policy enforcement, and trust at machine speed.

As enterprises scale agentic AI, traditional perimeter defenses cannot keep pace with autonomous agents that read, write, and act on massive volumes of data. Risks such as data exfiltration, unauthorized access, and unintended agent behavior require security to be embedded directly in the data path. Cloudian addresses this by combining its HyperStore S3-native platform with NVIDIA Vera BlueField-4 STX and NVIDIA DOCA, enforcing protection in silicon and at AI agent speed.

What was announced

Cloudian announced support for the NVIDIA Vera BlueField-4 STX architecture, featuring new DOCA-powered security innovations engineered for enterprise-scale agentic AI. Building on Cloudian's role as a launch partner for NVIDIA STX, the new capabilities will be delivered through Cloudian HyperStore and aligned with the broader availability of the NVIDIA Vera Rubin platform.

The solution introduces secure-by-design AI storage with three layers of in-silicon protection: AI-Native Data Protection with NVIDIA DOCA Vault, AI Context Memory Protection with NVIDIA DOCA Argus and DOCA Flow, and continuous AI Agent Protection that analyzes agent integrity and inter-agent interactions in real time.

Why this matters

For CIOs, CISOs, and IT directors, agentic AI introduces a new threat surface where every agent decision can touch sensitive data. Security must be enforced inline, without slowing inference pipelines or breaking multi-tenant isolation. By moving enforcement into silicon, organizations can apply consistent policies across AI workloads, reduce risk of model exfiltration, and maintain governance even if the host OS is compromised.

Procurement leaders gain a single S3-native storage platform that combines exabyte scale, AI-class performance, and continuous protection — eliminating the need to bolt on separate security layers across the AI factory.

Technical details

• NVIDIA DOCA Vault: granular authorization policies on every access request, blocking unauthorized file creation and AI model exfiltration.
• NVIDIA DOCA Argus and DOCA Flow: line-rate network segmentation and multi-tenant isolation for AI-native KV cache in a new context memory tier.
• AI Agent Protection: in-silicon analysis of agent integrity, data access patterns, and network activity with immediate containment on deviation.
• Performance: runtime threat detection up to 1,000x faster than agentless solutions, with policy enforcement at line rates up to 800Gb/s.
• Isolation: operation within a trust domain independent of the host operating system and storage software.
• Zero-trust foundation: object lock immutability, AES-256 encryption with KMIP, per-tenant isolation, and government-verified certifications.
• NVIDIA integrations: RDMA for S3 data transfers, NVIDIA-Certified Storage designation, and the HyperScale AI Data Platform for RAG and video understanding.

Data is the fuel powering the agentic AI factory, and securing it has become inseparable from delivering it. By integrating NVIDIA BlueField-4 STX security innovations with Cloudian HyperStore, we are giving enterprises a single S3-native storage platform that combines exabyte scale, AI-class performance, and continuous, in-silicon protection.

Softprom and Cloudian

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