Xandeum debuts Oxorro, a storage layer for provider failures

Xandeum launched Oxorro today, a file-system storage platform designed so data remains accessible and under customer control even if the storage provider becomes unavailable.

The product is built around the assumption that providers can fail, change policy or lose jurisdictional access. Oxorro presents a familiar file-system interface with directories, files, permissions and real-time read and write access, and is intended to let customers retrieve operational data without depending on the provider’s continued presence.

Xandeum designed Oxorro to operate alongside existing infrastructure rather than replace it. Organizations can route the operational data they treat as most important through Oxorro while keeping the rest of their storage stack unchanged. The company says the architecture aims to reduce reliance on separate backups or multi-provider configurations for critical operational data.

The launch follows incidents such as a May 2024 event in which a cloud provider accidentally deleted a private cloud subscription used by a pension fund, cutting off access for more than 620,000 members. Recovery in that case relied on backups that existed outside the affected service. Xandeum says most organizations do not have comparable fallback options.

Bernie Blume, founder and CEO of Xandeum, wrote in a statement:

Every storage vendor in the world will tell you their service is reliable, and most of them are right, most of the time. We are not in that business. We are in the business of making sure that when something does go wrong, whether it is a vendor failure, a policy change, or a jurisdiction shift, the data is still there, still accessible, and still under the customer’s control. We call it Unstoppable Operational Data, and we built Oxorro to deliver it.

Xandeum says Oxorro is compatible with decentralized application patterns and is part of the company’s effort to build scalable, smart contract-native storage infrastructure for large-scale programmable data. The company has posted technical details and integration guidance on its website.