Vault Cloud's Board of Directors
Peter Lawrence
Chair
Peter brings a wealth of experience across multiple industries including Defence, Financial Services, Telecommunications, Utilities and Resources covering the Public and Private sectors. He has held senior positions in technology both domestically and internationally having worked in the UK, Australia, Japan, New Zealand and across Asia. Most recently Peter has been working with HESTA and prior to that O2 in the UK. Peter held the position of Chief Information Officer in the Department of Defence from 2012-2017.
Margaret Staib
Non Executive Director
Margaret brings with her expertise in defence, national security, transport and logistics, aviation and aerospace, technology, cultural change and organisational transformation. Prior to joining the Vault Board, Margaret commenced her professional career as a military logistician with the Australian Air Force. Her military service included holding the position of Commander Joint Logistics and Commandant of the Australian Defence Force Academy. From the Air Force, Margaret continued her executive career as the CEO and Managing Director of Air Services Australia, the air navigation, and air traffic management organisation for Australia.
Rupert Taylor-Price
Director
Rupert leads the development and execution of Vault Cloud’s long-term strategy in collaboration with key stakeholders. Rupert founded Vault Cloud in 2012, driven by his strong desire to improve citizens’ lives through government. He has a long history of handling sensitive data, stemming from his eight years as Chief Executive Officer at JN Solutions. While at JN Solutions, Rupert developed a world-leading SaaS (Software as a Service) Information Management Platform for the Australian Government, which provided extensive support to the community services sector.
Vault Cloud's Leadership Team
Rupert Taylor-Price
Chief Executive Officer
Rupert leads the development and execution of Vault Cloud’s long-term strategy in collaboration with key stakeholders. Rupert founded Vault Cloud in 2012, driven by his strong desire to improve citizens’ lives through government. He has a long history of handling sensitive data, stemming from his eight years as Chief Executive Officer at JN Solutions. While at JN Solutions, Rupert developed a world-leading SaaS (Software as a Service) Information Management Platform for the Australian Government, which provided extensive support to the community services sector.
Joe Ruggero
Chief Operations Officer
Joe leads the operational and organisational execution of Vault’s strategic plan in collaboration with key stakeholders. Having successfully scaled technology businesses globally. He brings a long history of strategic, operational and human cohesiveness to an organisation having held roles across Global Operations Finance, Commercial Execution, Project Delivery and Corporate Development, including 10+ years of global roles outside of Australia.
Ian Keogh
Chief Customer Officer
Ian leads Vault Cloud’s marketing, sales, and customer success teams, fostering a strong commitment to delivering outstanding customer experiences. He played a key role in the inception of Vault Cloud and has returned after 10 years of leading SaaS and ICT Professional Services businesses, with a focus on supporting sensitive Australian Government workloads. Ian holds a Master’s degree from London Business School and brings over a decade of experience from his time at Macquarie Bank.
Andrew Boniface
Chief Financial Officer
Andrew retains full end to end responsibility for the finance and risk management functions at Vault. He brings extensive experience to his role, with over 20 years in both the professional services sector and more recently in the technology sector, where he held senior roles at ASX listed and scale up companies.
Unleashing Innovation
Government and critical industries need to able to quickly adapt to changing market conditions, which can be difficult when your organisation is caught up in the complexities of hardware and long-term budgeting. Vault provides you with future-proof cloud infrastructure that’s flexible; able to grow with your data needs while making data safely accessible to end users.
Our services leverage the strengths of your existing team. We liberate your innovators to create business solutions that work, while coders can focus on their core competency. Network engineers have the freedom to deploy environments that are trusted, secure and lightning fast.
Ensuring Flexibility Through Open Standards
OpenStack is our core technology. It allows us to offer greater flexibility to grow and iterate on a cloud platform without being locked into a specific vendor. OpenStack is one of the world’s fastest growing open-source communities and the largest and most widely adopted open-source cloud platform. Work undertaken on the OpenStack platform can be leveraged across most clouds.
OpenStack is built on open standards and works well with popular enterprise and open source technologies. This makes it ideal for heterogeneous infrastructure, just like Vault Cloud. OpenStack’s in-built security, complete scalability, open standards and interoperable platform all work seamlessly with Vault’s cloud.
Keeping Data in Australia
Vault Cloud operates out of world-class data centres specifically designed for accommodating sensitive data and workloads with strict operating controls. Our two data centres in Sydney and Canberra are centrally located to provide easy access to your critical data and infrastructure, regardless of your physical location, equipped with fully-redundant optical fibre connectivity for lightning-fast response times. Through these data centres, we provide a holistic cloud-computing environment that addresses requirements for:
- Block storage
- Object storage
- Compute
- Virtual networking
- Auto-scaling resources
- Automation
Delivering Security at Scale
Vault Cloud’s secure data centres are staffed around the clock to provide consistent, fast and scalable performance. That means you can trust us with your security, performance, reliability and capacity, while you focus on your core business.
Investing in Technology
We are the only Australian Hyperscale cloud built exclusively for security. We have engineered high-performance systems designed to scale up and scale out to deliver order of magnitude performance on legacy IT systems.
Increasing Performance
Our cloud was built to cater for intensive legacy workloads, but many intensive legacy workloads were not built for the cloud. We recognised early on that many large, legacy systems need to scale up first in order to be easily migrated, which is why over 94% of our infrastructure is common to the latest supercomputer.
Providing a Secure Home for the World’s Best Technology
Technology vendors deploying on premise to an unknown environment increases delivery risk and slows time to value. At the same time, many workloads are not suitable for public clouds and cause sales attrition. Our secure community cloud brings an added layer of security and assurance to rapidly changing commercial technology. Through automation, software can be deployed to a consistent dedicated on premise-like environment in minutes. This delivers all the cost savings and efficiencies of SaaS, but without compromising security.
Nurturing Talent
We know how important it is to upskill technology professionals for today’s digital and cloud driven computing environment. This, along with the increasing demand for training in the management and use of secure cloud, led us to open the Vault Academy in May 2018, which serves as a state-of-the-art training centre.
Aimed to support end-users such as software developers, infrastructure engineers, cloud architects and technical project leaders, our intensive instructor-led courses provide participants with the skills to understand cloud computing technology as well as the operational skills required to maintain secure cloud platforms.
Delivering Local Support
Just like our customers, our support is based in Australia. We have an Australian-based service desk and Security Operations Centre with around-the-clock support for high-priority incidents, including access to our technical subject matter experts.
Fifth Domain is a specialist cyber security education and training company tackling the global cyber security skills shortage. Their cyber education and training platforms deliver high speed, on demand and customisable learning environments.
archTIS is a Canberra-based firm that specialises in the design and development of products, solutions and services for secure information sharing and collaboration. Their products and solutions have the ability to apply and enforce dynamic, policy-driven access controls at the user and information level.
Moelis Australia (ASX: MOE) is a leading independent financial services group with operations in corporate advisory, equities and asset management. Moelis Australia is dedicated to creating lasting client relationships by providing strategic and innovative advice through a collaborative and global approach not limited to specific products or particular regions.
ASD Certification
Vault Cloud has achieved UNCLASSIFIED DLM and PROTECTED certification on the Australian Signals Directorate’s (ASD) Certified Cloud Services List.
We are incredibly proud of our ASD certification. We are one of only three Australian-owned organisations to meet the rigorous Australian Government security standards required to attain PROTECTED level certification.
Awards
The Australian Information Industry Association (AIIA) is Australia’s peak industry body for the technology sector. The AIIA’s iAwards has been Australia’s leading awards program for innovation in the digital economy for more than 25 years. Each year the iAwards publicly recognise the exceptional achievements of those at the forefront of Australian innovation.
AIIA ACT Awards 2020
Not-for-Profit and Community Solution Award
National iAwards 2018
Big Data Innovation of the Year | Merit Recipient
ACT iAwards 2018
Big Data Innovation of the Year
ACT iAwards 2017
Infrastructure & Platforms Innovation of the Year
ACT iAwards 2017
Public Sector & Government Markets
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