Data Republic has announced its "diplomatic zone" -- a location for analytics to take place without that data ever leaving the cloud.
With the first iteration of its Customer Cloud Suite available on Amazon Web Services (AWS), the new offering allows users to link existing Amazon Simple Storage Service (Amazon S3) data stores to Data Republic Projects, and deploy quarantined analytics workspaces on their existing AWS environment.
The Customer Cloud Suite is touted as making it possible to facilitate multi-party data sharing projects without needing to move, transform, or load data outside of the organisation's own secured AWS environments.
Data Republic CEO Danny Gilligan said this capability gives companies the chance to accelerate data innovation while reducing risk and information security overheads.
"Using the Customer Cloud Suite there is no load, no transformation, and no movement of data when collaborating with a partner via Data Republic," he said. "All data access and analysis is secured and controlled in your existing AWS account.
"It's our goal to make it simpler and more secure for organisations to perform data collaboration projects."
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Speaking with ZDNet, Gilligan said the new offering comes as a result of the company wanting to connect the right data source with the right people to solve the right problems.
"Our view of what's missing to enable data to flow like money, if you will, the same trust, liquidity, confidence is what we call banking infrastructure for data -- so how do we create the kind of technology tools that give people confidence in sharing data to solve problems," he explained.
An example of where the Customer Cloud Suite is a