Cloud platform provider
ZeroStack Inc. (ZeroStack) has launched a new private cloud option. The company, which has headquarters in Mountain View, California, USA, provides products and services that simplify private clouds and helps make them cost effective. It offers expertise in the areas of virtualization, storage, networking, distributed systems, management platforms and "DevOps", and its solutions enable virtual machines, containers and bare metal servers to operate alongside each other. ZeroStack's new private cloud solution is "easier to configure, consume and manage than any other technology on the market".
ZeroStack combines private and public clouds that allow customers to "consume a self-service cloud without significant in-house expertise or time" through a solution that couples its Software-as-a-Service (SaaS) platform with companies' on-premise capabilities. The company bills its ZeroStack Cloud Platform as an "industry first" in that it is a "complete, scale-out private cloud that converges compute, storage, networking and management software with self-healing capabilities". The SaaS platform uses an analytics engine to monitor systems and plan capacity requirements. The analytics engine also provides failure detection and offers proactive solutions.
News of ZeroStack's new private cloud option comes in the wake of the company receiving $5.6 million in Series A funding from Foundation Capital in 2014. The company is targeting its new offering at the technology, education, pharmaceutical, biotech, oil and gas, media, retail and state industries, as well as local governments.
“Private clouds are an essential element of many organizations’ IT strategies, but they have been frustrated by the complexity, slow time to value and cost of deploying and running them,” explained ZeroStack's CEO and co-founder, Ajay Gulati. “ZeroStack was founded on the belief that every enterprise should be able to stand up a private cloud without having to stitch together complex software and hardware or rely on expensive technical teams to run it. A private cloud should be as easy to consume as a public cloud.”
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