# STRATUM

> STRATUM is Datacenter as an Application: a software-defined datacenter platform that packages compute, networking, storage, AI acceleration, security, orchestration, topology, and configuration into a versioned operating model. Use the Technical Guide for task-oriented installation and operations, the Technical Reference for detailed platform documentation, and Inside STRATUM for the interactive architecture view.

## Start Here

- [STRATUM](https://www.stratumvisor.com/): Product overview and the Datacenter as an Application operating model.
- [STRATUM Technical Guide](https://www.stratumvisor.com/guide/): Task-oriented installation, configuration, deployment, operations, tutorials, and troubleshooting.
- [Technical Guide machine-readable map](https://www.stratumvisor.com/guide/llms.txt): Curated map of completed Technical Guide pages.
- [STRATUM Technical Reference](https://www.stratumvisor.com/documentation.html): System requirements, setup, user, administrator, DevSecOps, Kubernetes/OpenShift, and operational reference material.
- [Inside STRATUM](https://www.stratumvisor.com/docs.html): Interactive architecture guide to OCI delivery, compute, network, storage, accelerator, security, operations, and portability.
- [Download STRATUM](https://www.stratumvisor.com/download.html): Container, Helm, and appliance delivery options.
- [STRATUM FAQ](https://www.stratumvisor.com/faq.html): Direct technical answers about the platform.

## Core Platform

- [STRATUM Architecture](https://www.stratumvisor.com/tech.html): Compute, Network Fabric, Storage Fabric, AI Accelerator Fabric, OCI delivery, security, and operations architecture.
- [STRATUM AI](https://www.stratumvisor.com/ai.html): Governed infrastructure AI that observes live state, plans controlled actions, executes through STRATUM capabilities, and verifies outcomes.
- [STRATUM AI Studio Operator DAG](https://www.stratumvisor.com/guide/ai/studio/concepts/): DAG-based visual operator design for specialist Roles, Skills, context, policy, authority, approval, execution and verification.
- [STRATUM GPU](https://www.stratumvisor.com/stratum-gpu.html): Distributed AI accelerator/GPU fabric for virtual machines across hosts and locations.
- [STRATUM GPU Firewall](https://www.stratumvisor.com/guide/gpu-guest-tools/gpu-firewall/): GPU ACL and attachment enforcement at the STRATUM virtual PCI boundary, with deeper CUDA/NVML-aware inspection and automated response under development.
- [STRATUM Continuum at the Edge](https://www.stratumvisor.com/guide/continuum/edge/): One control plane for site-aware execution, local Storage Fabric, and constrained or intermittent operations across ships, aircraft, satellites, remote sites, and other edge platforms.
- [Post-Quantum Cryptography (PQC)](https://www.stratumvisor.com/guide/continuum/post-quantum-cryptography/): NIST-standardized PQC across the STRATUM Continuum, including FIPS 203 ML-KEM, FIPS 204 ML-DSA and FIPS 205 SLH-DSA.
- [High Availability & Workload Portability](https://www.stratumvisor.com/guide/fabrics/high-availability/): STRATUM restart-based HA across compatible execution workers with distributed network and storage relationships.
- [Remote GPU Across the Continuum](https://www.stratumvisor.com/guide/gpu-guest-tools/remote-gpu-continuum/): Use physical accelerators across hosts, sites and cloud-connected Continuum locations.
- [Network Operations Center](https://www.stratumvisor.com/guide/noc/): Global operational view for STRATUM datacenters across facilities, cloud, edge, mobile and distributed Continuum environments.
- [STRATUMswitch](https://www.stratumvisor.com/stratumswitch.html): Distributed virtual switching, first-class ports, wiring, VLANs, capture, and network fabric.
- [STRATUM Security](https://www.stratumvisor.com/security.html): Immutable OCI delivery, encryption, identity, isolation, and zero-trust design.
- [VMware Migration to STRATUM](https://www.stratumvisor.com/vmware-migration.html): VMware OVA/OVF migration into STRATUM Arsenal and the STRATUM operating model.
- [STRATUM Marketplace](https://www.stratumvisor.com/marketplace.html): Arsenal Templates and STRATUM AI Packs/Skills.

## Editions, Deployment, and Licensing

- [STRATUM Community](https://www.stratumvisor.com/community.html): Free eligible single-host non-production STRATUM deployment.
- [STRATUM Pricing](https://www.stratumvisor.com/pricing.html): Community, evaluation, production, and enterprise licensing overview.
- [Commercial Software License](https://www.stratumvisor.com/license.html): STRATUM commercial license terms.
- [Community License Agreement](https://www.stratumvisor.com/communitylicense.html): Terms for eligible Community use.
- [Community License Request](https://www.stratumvisor.com/licenserequest.html): Request a Community license.
- [Contact and Support](https://www.stratumvisor.com/contact.html): Sales, technical evaluation, licensing, partnerships, and support contact path.

## Solutions

- [STRATUM Defense](https://www.stratumvisor.com/defense.html): Mission infrastructure across datacenter, lab, cloud, disconnected edge, shipboard, and tactical environments.
- [TACTICALvisor](https://www.stratumvisor.com/tactical.html): STRATUM mission virtualization for tactical and disconnected environments.
- [STRATUM for MSPs](https://www.stratumvisor.com/msp.html): Portable, versioned virtual datacenters for managed service providers.

## Alternate Interfaces

- [STRATUM TUI & CLI](https://www.stratumvisor.com/guide/alternate-interfaces/tui/): Terminal and scriptable control for datacenters and workloads.
- [Legacy UI](https://www.stratumvisor.com/guide/alternate-interfaces/legacy-ui/): Optional traditional virtualization dashboard for STRATUM resources and Continuum.

## Company

- [Company](https://www.stratumvisor.com/company.html): STRATUM company, mission, leadership, and media.
- [Blog](https://www.stratumvisor.com/blog.html): Engineering, infrastructure, AI, product, and field notes from STRATUM.
- [Referral Program](https://www.stratumvisor.com/referral.html): STRATUM referral program information.


## Blog Articles

- [GPUHammer, GPUBreach, GPUThor, and the Need for a GPU Firewall](https://www.stratumvisor.com/blog/gpubreach-gpuhammer-gputhor-gpu-firewall/): GPU memory attacks are turning the accelerator itself into a security boundary. STRATUM is building enforcement and threat-response capabilities for that boundary.
- [Post-Quantum Cryptography in STRATUM: PQC Meets FIPS 140-3](https://www.stratumvisor.com/blog/post-quantum-cryptography-fips-140-3/): STRATUM is moving post-quantum cryptography into the infrastructure control plane while keeping the FIPS 140-3 validation boundary explicit and verifiable.
- [A Raw LLM Is Not Enough](https://www.stratumvisor.com/blog/a-raw-llm-is-not-enough/): Anyone who has used a raw model API knows how quickly a confident answer can drift away from reality. Infrastructure cannot afford to make that the control plane.
- [Our Deliberately Unreasonable AI Test](https://www.stratumvisor.com/blog/our-deliberately-unreasonable-ai-test/): We intentionally give STRATUM AI missions that are too large for a scripted demo because that is where architectural weaknesses become obvious.
- [Recovery Matters as Much as Execution](https://www.stratumvisor.com/blog/recovery-matters-as-much-as-execution/): Infrastructure automation has to survive interrupted commands, partial completion, stale state, and asynchronous work without blindly doing things twice.
- [Real Automation Eventually Reaches a Screen](https://www.stratumvisor.com/blog/real-automation-eventually-reaches-a-screen/): APIs cover a lot of infrastructure. Installers, recovery environments, graphical tools, and legacy software still put a screen in the way.
- [The Model Gets Intelligence. STRATUM Provides Control.](https://www.stratumvisor.com/blog/the-model-gets-intelligence-stratum-provides-control/): The model reasons about the mission. Skills contribute expertise. STRATUM decides what is valid, allowed, and proven.
- [Why AI Needs a Harness Before It Touches Your Datacenter](https://www.stratumvisor.com/blog/why-ai-needs-a-harness-before-it-touches-your-datacenter/): Infrastructure AI becomes serious the moment a model can change real systems. That is where a harness stops being optional.
- [The STRATUM AI Harness: Let the Model Reason. Make the Platform Prove It.](https://www.stratumvisor.com/blog/stratum-ai-harness-graphrag/): STRATUM AI uses the model for reasoning while the platform keeps control of identity, authorization, current state, execution, and proof.
- [Give the Datacenter an AI Operator](https://www.stratumvisor.com/blog/give-the-datacenter-an-ai-operator/): Once the datacenter becomes a coherent software model, AI can reason over the real environment and use the platform itself as the toolset.
- [Build Your Datacenter Like You Build an Application](https://www.stratumvisor.com/blog/build-your-datacenter-like-an-application/): Software teams learned how to build, version, ship, and roll back applications. Infrastructure should gain the same operational discipline.
- [The Datacenter Becomes the Application](https://www.stratumvisor.com/blog/datacenter-becomes-the-application/): STRATUM starts with a simple idea: the infrastructure model should be alive, operational, and connected directly to the systems it represents.
- [Why I Built STRATUM](https://www.stratumvisor.com/blog/why-i-built-stratum/): Thirty years across global-scale IT and military IT left me asking the same question: why does infrastructure still feel so static?