ShardSecure offers a Virtual Appliance that can be deployed in the Cloud or On-premises that uses Microshard technology to ensure data security and privacy. The appliance ingests data via iSCSI, S3 Compatible Object Storage API, Native API, SMB, and NFS. Upon ingestion, data is compressed then shred into microshards (tiny pieces as small as 4 bytes). Microshard data is thoroughly mixed, poison data is added and new shards (containers holding many microshards) equal to the number of configured storage destinations are formed. Data is then be distributed following a user-set policy to multiple independent locations, which may include on-premises/datacenter storage, Amazon S3, Azure, Google and IBM Cloud. The appliance will reassemble microshard data whenever needed.