admin Founded by senior engineers from VMware and Google, ZeroStack is funded by Formation 8 and Foundation Capital, and is based in Mountain View, California. “Zero is a powerful number, ZeroStack necessarily implies that one does not need any cloud experts to run a true scale-out cloud and that the solution is complete. Our entire offering is self-contained, with a single license,” affirms to Ajay Gulati, CEO at ZeroStack,
ZeroStack: Future-Ready Architecture
ZeroStack uses smart software and artificial intelligence to deliver a self-driving, fully integrated private cloud platform that offers the agility and simplicity of public cloud at a fraction of the cost. On premises, ZeroStack’s cloud operating system converts bare-metal servers into a reliable, self-healing cloud cluster. This cluster is consumed via a self-service SaaS portal. The SaaS portal also collects telemetry data and uses artificial intelligence to create models that help customers make decisions about capacity planning, troubleshooting and optimized placement of applications. The integrated App Store enables one-click deployment of many applications that provide the platform for most modern cloud-native applications. This solution is fully integrated with public clouds to offer seamless migration between clouds.
ZeroStack delivers a public cloud experience with private cloud control through software that automates cloud infrastructure, applications, and operations. Enterprises and MSPs simplify operations, eliminate operational silos, reduce costs by up to 90 percent, and accelerate IT by 10X over virtualized solutions while maintaining IT control. ZeroStack enables multitenant, multi-cloud, and containerized environments with a future-ready architecture.
How they do it
ZeroStack leverages AI and machine learning techniques to automate provisioning, operations, management, upgrades, and error control. Their software can be deployed in less than 30 minutes. The integrated AppStore offers more than 40 popular DevOps and data management blueprints for point-and-click provisioning. In addition, web management delivers automatic upgrades, provides self-healing capabilities, and offers intelligent resource planning.
The result is a private cloud that gives IT full control over costs, billing, and chargeback while providing self-provisioning for users. Enterprises reduce costs, streamline IT operations, and increase business and software development agility. MSPs get immediate deployment of a full-featured cloud that doesn’t require huge investments in cloud expertise.
Zerostack’s Z-Brain uses artificial intelligence to create models from that data that help customers make decisions about capacity planning, troubleshooting and optimized placement of applications. ZeroStack’s Z-COS cloud operating system converts on-premises bare-metal servers into a reliable, self-healing cloud cluster, which is then managed by the SaaS portal.
ZeroStack brings home cloud for its clients by amalgamating the Z-Brain SaaS portal for developers and IT admins to consume services, and Z-COS together to complete the ZeroStack Intelligent Cloud Platform. Thus, the firm is able to make any server into a cloud with a single download and installation process.
The ZeroStack team has received a Gartner award for its contribution to the market and was featured in the CRN Emerging Cloud Leaders. ZeroStack continues to expand its ecosystem so customers can leverage the best existing assets with its cloud software. They added white-labeling features, allowing customers to also sell services using ZeroStack’s cloud service. They have also integrated with AWS to migrate workloads and added much more enhanced chargeback and showback features. The company’s renowned partners are Lenovo, Cisco, Intel, Supermicro, HPE, Dell etc.
Recently, ZeroStack unveiled that administrators of its cloud platform can set up secure tunnels between users or networks at disparate sites, bringing a new layer of collaboration while maintaining security in multi-site cloud users. While ZeroStack has long supported virtual firewalling or networking between tenants, the ZeroStack cloud’s security capabilities have now been expanded so a cloud administrator can enable VPN configurations for one or more tenants or Business Units (BU).
Ajay Gulati: A Prolific Inventor
Ajay Gulati Co-Founder, CTO and Board Member, shares responsibility for driving ZeroStack’s product innovation, bringing to life his thought leadership in systems infrastructures and virtualization. Ajay was a senior architect and R&D lead at VMware where he designed flagship products including Storage I/O control, Storage DRS and DRS. He has been recognized as a prolific inventor by his peers and has more than a dozen patents to his name. Ajay has consulted with multiple startups including Nimble Storage and Velocloud Networks. Ajay has a Ph.D. from Rice University and a B.S. from IIT Kharagpur.
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