Understanding the Technologies Behind Agentic AI Infrastructure

We work as a Manufacturer's Representative / Referral Partner for three specialist companies addressing different layers of the Agentic AI Security Gap. This page explains what each does, why it matters, and how to reach them — not to sell you anything ourselves, but to help you understand the landscape clearly. We plan to add additional companies and to continue to build out a broader ecosystem of companies that can contribute to expanding Defense-In-Depth secure enterprise IT infrastructures.

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Focus Area 1: Agentic AI Enterprise IT Infrastructure

SourceCode: The Infrastructure Behind the Infrastructure

Every AI strategy eventually runs into a hardware question: who actually builds, configures, tests, and ships the GPUs and servers your architecture depends on? That's SourceCode's role.

Who they are

Founded in 1992 and headquartered in Norwood, Massachusetts, SourceCode is a global co-design and infrastructure partner with engineering and production facilities across the US, UK, and beyond. Acquired by Cerberus Capital Management in 2021 to accelerate its global build-out, and expanded further in 2023 with the acquisition of UK-based Boston Limited.

Why it matters

SourceCode is ISO 9001:2015 certified, and Comark (a SourceCode company) is an ITAR-compliant registered manufacturer — directly relevant given how much CUI- and ITAR-controlled research data runs through university and government HPC environments. Their build process includes an in-house, U.S.-based environmental testing lab and multi-stage hand inspection before systems ship.

Proof point

Vanderbilt University's GPUs, servers, and Hammerspace deployment were all supplied through SourceCode.

Focus Area 2: AI Data Platforms

Hammerspace: Making Your Data Available Wherever Your GPUs Are

The problem Hammerspace solves is more fundamental than most people realize: most enterprises stitch together 15 or more disconnected tools just to prepare data for AI consumption, and roughly 80% of AI project spend happens before a single dollar of ROI shows up.

Who they are

Hammerspace built a "data-in-place" architecture — a global namespace that unifies data across storage systems, clouds, and regions without copying it, so GPU-intensive AI applications can pull data from wherever it actually lives. This includes making previously idle, expensive NVMe SSDs usable by other AI workloads instead of sitting empty during non-training phases.

Why it matters

In March 2026, Hammerspace launched its AI Data Platform (AIDP) at NVIDIA GTC San Jose, built on an NVIDIA reference design, with Secuvy's Data Security Posture Management embedded natively.

Proof point

Vanderbilt University's Advanced Computing Center for Research and Education (ACCRE) selected Hammerspace in November 2025 to unify a 10-petabyte research environment (~750 compute nodes, 80 GPU nodes), replacing three disconnected storage systems (Panasas, GPFS, LStore) with one platform — achieving a verified 48% reduction in average storage cost.

Focus Area 3: AI Data Security and Governance

Secuvy: Governance That Understands What It's Protecting

Most AI security tools rely on RegEx pattern-matching to find sensitive data — which misses a significant share of real research and enterprise data that doesn't fit a standard template.

Who they are

Secuvy's Data Security Posture Management (DSPM) platform is built specifically to handle non-patterned sensitive data — the reason Hammerspace selected Secuvy as its embedded security layer for AIDP. Secuvy's CEO Mike Seashols has described the goal as making security and governance native to the data platform itself, rather than bolted on afterward — calling it a "game-changer for enterprises deploying AI in regulated industries."

Why it matters

In June 2026, the OWASP GenAI Security Project's "State of Agentic AI Security and Governance v2.01" report confirmed that AI safety and security are converging at the deployment layer — and that most governance frameworks were never built for systems that act on their own. One line worth sitting with: authorized access does not automatically mean appropriate AI use.

Focus Areas 4 & 5: HPC Research and the Education Hub

Two More Pieces, Housed on Our Dedicated Resource Site

Two of our five focus areas — AI for University HPC Research and the Agentic AI Education Hub — aren't vendor partnerships, so rather than duplicate that content here, we've built a dedicated site for them:

How to Read the Claims on This Page

The vendor descriptions, statistics, and case study outcomes above (including Hammerspace's 48% storage cost reduction at Vanderbilt) are drawn from each vendor's own published announcements as of the date cited, and are not guarantees of results for any other organization. Full trademark attributions, our informational-purpose disclaimer, and data handling practices are detailed on our Legal & Privacy page. Legal & Privacy page.

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