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The SECO platform
A sovereign private cloud, delivered as one platform
SECO (Sovereign-Edge Compliance Orchestration) is our productized private cloud: VMs, containers, and AI workloads on one control plane you own, built from a curated open-source stack, at the compliance level you select.
What SECO is
Two things at once. A platform: a deployable private cloud built on a curated open-source stack. And a framework: an end-to-end methodology for sovereign, compliance-bound infrastructure, not tied to any single implementation. SECO is built to avoid proprietary platform lock-in and to stay customizable: its layers are replaceable as the landscape moves.
What SECO sells is a full stack of many proven open-source components, assembled and operated as one complete business solution. The curation is the value: we select from the wide cloud-native landscape, re-assemble as it evolves, and remove the integration burden of building such a platform in-house. On top of those upstreams, SECO carries its own layers: configuration, hardening, and compliance.
SECO is created and led by Myroslav Mishov, the founder of Tech Evolvers, building on production infrastructure work since the end of the 2000s, and on platforms run under SLA for clients in regulated sectors.
What’s driving this
The forces are structural, and they all point the same way. Pricing power over proprietary virtualization and hyperconverged infrastructure has concentrated, and it is being exercised; the current repricing wave is only the loudest example. Cloud bills and data-control questions keep driving workloads back to private infrastructure. AI is pulling sensitive data home, and it is changing how infrastructure is operated: legacy environments were built for human operators clicking through consoles, while AI-assisted and AI-driven operations need a declarative, API-first platform to work with. Regulators keep tightening data-residency and operational-resilience rules. Enterprises need a modern private cloud without trading one lock-in for another.
Runs with the team you have
Deliberately operable: designed so in-house Kubernetes engineers can run it. No dedicated platform-engineering department is required, and no standing team of VMware, OpenStack, or OpenShift specialists.
Who it is for
Organizations that want the flexibility of a hyperscaler and the efficiency of bare metal without giving up control of their data, their metadata, or their infrastructure. Regulated and data-sovereign enterprises. Any organization that treats its data as strategic, or runs on-premises today: repatriating from public cloud or exiting proprietary virtualization, building private AI capacity on its own hardware, or modernizing an existing estate.
The name is the promise: four commitments, engineered in.
Sovereign
Your hardware, your data, your rules. Self-contained by default: no data, no metadata, and no backups leave your environment, and no external dependency is required to run. Your environment is defined by you. Where your estate spans more than one of your own locations, movement between them, replication, edge-to-center flows, and disaster recovery are designed to stay inside your sovereignty boundary. Anything beyond it, like encrypted backups to an S3 region of your choice, happens only as your explicit decision.
Edge
Adding a site is a directory in a repository, not a project. Built for multi-site reality, and delivered through the Edge & Scale-Out package. Every site runs autonomously, with local control, local storage, and local observability. Sites reconcile with the center through git and telemetry, and the center keeps a management path to every site; sites keep operating when isolated. Data moves between sites explicitly, and clusters are not stretched by default; stretching stays your decision, where the connectivity supports it.
Compliance
A selectable level, not a default burden. When you need it, the platform is raised to the compliance target you select, such as SOC 2, HIPAA, or PCI DSS, individually or combined. Controls are engineered into that deployment’s baseline from the start, never bolted on afterward; evidence is generated continuously, and controls reconcile continuously as the platform runs. Encryption in transit, and platform-level encryption at rest, are enforced as part of the profiles. Some targets reach past the platform: PCI DSS, for one, does not accept disk-level encryption on its own for stored account data. SECO provides the platform-side controls and the evidence they generate. Your SOC 2 report, HIPAA posture, or PCI DSS validation also depends on your own organizational controls, and where we operate the platform for you, on a written agreement that puts us in scope as your service provider: a BAA under HIPAA, a documented responsibility split under PCI DSS, and either the carve-out or the inclusive method in your SOC 2 report.
Orchestration
Everything as code, on one control plane. GitOps, operations driven from a git repository, is the recommended way to run virtual machines, containers, and AI workloads together, and the required one under full compliance profiles. Advanced automation and end-to-end orchestration, from bare-metal boot to workload delivery, arrive with the Operations & Automation package. The environment stays yours: manual operation remains available where you prefer it, and the platform is operable by engineers and AI agents alike.
A core, plus what you need
SECO is delivered as a Core Platform plus add-on packages. Every configuration starts from CORE; the add-ons combine on top in any subset, with one dependency: EDGE builds on OPS. Compliance is never mandatory. The four packages deliver the four commitments: CORE is the base platform, SEC the compliance layer, OPS the orchestration layer, and EDGE the edge estate.
Every engagement starts from a scoped POC, whichever packages are in it: CORE on its own to prove the platform quickly, or CORE with SEC, OPS or EDGE from day one.
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CORE · Core Platform The platform buildout: GitOps delivery from a standard repository layout, Secure Boot, observability, backups, catalog services scoped to your needs, and a documented runbook handover.
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SEC · Compliance & Security Compliance profiles for the targets you select: hardening, a default-deny security baseline, single sign-on, and a continuous evidence pipeline.
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OPS · Operations & Automation Advanced automation and end-to-end orchestration profiles. Day-2 as a run-it retainer or a handoff with support; scoped extensions such as AI-assisted operations and an Internal Developer Platform.
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EDGE · Edge & Scale-Out Multi-site and center-to-edge capability, offered as design and advisory today. Requires OPS: multi-site operation without automation turns into toil.
What you get
- A deployed control plane you own, with VMs, containers, and AI scheduling in place
- A dev/test environment, and a POC proven against your workloads
- A standard GitOps repository layout your team operates from
- Documented runbooks and a handover your engineers can run with
- A continuous compliance evidence pipeline, when SEC is in scope
- Day-2 operation as a retainer, or a supported handoff
The packages scale both ways: a small team with basic requirements gets a small platform with no extra layers, and you add layers only when you need them. Cost-efficient by design: you pay only for what you need.
On the roadmap: NIST SP 800-53 control baselines and post-quantum cryptography readiness.
How SECO is delivered
Every SECO engagement follows the same arc.
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Assess
Fixed-scope discovery, typically one to two weeks: workloads, source environment, compliance target, and sizing, with a clear read on the path to a POC.
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Build
Phase one is deliberately scoped: a client POC plus a non-critical dev/test environment. Production follows as its own phase, with optional compliance hardening; migration is planned and tested against your actual source environment during the POC.
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Run
We stay on to run what we build, or hand it off to your team with support.
What SECO is not
- Not a hyperscaler clone
- Not a multi-tenant SaaS: every client gets their own sovereign deployment
- Not a finished boxed product: a curated, evolving solution, run by the people who build it
- Not a fork of its upstream projects: upstreams stay upstreams, across every component, and SECO adds its own layers on top
The full component list is shared in the assessment, under NDA.
Which compliance targets can SECO be raised to?
The target you select, such as SOC 2, HIPAA, or PCI DSS, individually or combined. Controls are engineered into that deployment’s baseline from the start rather than bolted on afterward, and evidence is generated continuously as the platform runs. SECO provides the platform-side controls and the evidence they generate; your SOC 2 report, HIPAA posture, or PCI DSS validation also depends on your own organizational controls. Where we operate the platform for you, a written agreement puts us in scope as your service provider: a BAA under HIPAA, a documented responsibility split under PCI DSS, and either the carve-out or the inclusive method in your SOC 2 report. The NIST SP 800-53 control baselines and post-quantum cryptography readiness are on the roadmap.
Do we have to take the whole platform?
No. Every configuration starts from CORE, the base platform, and the add-ons combine on top in any subset you need: SEC for compliance, OPS for orchestration, and EDGE for a multi-site estate, which builds on OPS. Compliance is never mandatory. A small team with basic requirements gets a small platform, and you add layers only when you need them.
Which components does SECO use?
The full component list is shared in the assessment, under NDA. What is public is the shape: many proven open-source components, curated and assembled as one complete business solution, with SECO’s own configuration, hardening, and compliance layers on top. Upstreams stay upstreams, so SECO is not a fork of any of them.
Exiting a hypervisor, bringing workloads home, or building private AI?
SECO turns hardware you own into a private cloud: one control plane, yours, at the compliance level you select. Multi-site is designed in. Start with the assessment; it ends in a report and a POC plan, not a commitment.