ZeroStack
What they do: Provides a “self-driving private cloud that allows enterprises to build, test, stage, deploy, and operate modern software applications.” ZeroStack consolidates modern software developer tooling and cloud operations services (DevOps) onto one unified cloud offering.
Problem they solve: According to ZeroStack, software development teams in a DevOps lifecycle don’t have consistent and timely access to dev/test/production-ready environments. These developers want to quickly spin up new environments for building and testing new features in dev/test environments and want to improve the ability of system testing to find hard-to-find production bugs, but they don’t have good on-premises options for doing this.
Additionally, developers want to test new code in staging that is close to a production environment to help them easily reproduce, debug, and fix bugs that mimic production environments.
How they solve it: ZeroStack argues that it “simplifies, ‘SaaSifies,’ automates, and consolidates DevOps across VMs, containers, and multi-clouds with intelligent software.”
Backed by $21.6M in VC, 2-time #Big50 winner ZeroStack gains new customers for its self-driving private cloud tech. https://wp.me/p330ZZ-l6 Click To TweetThe ZeroStack Intelligent Cloud Platform is an automated self-service private cloud environment that “increases agility while eliminating the challenges of operating an on-premises cloud.”
ZeroStack has also built a control plane to manage, monitor, and auto-heal the system in case of any service or hardware failures. The SaaS component collects events and health monitoring data from servers. It runs analytics on the data to provide capacity planning, spot anomalies, and help with operations.
The platform provides an AWS-like experience while keeping sensitive user data on-site. According to a ZeroStack rep, “developers can build a private cloud in minutes, no prior experience required.”
Headquarters: Mountain View, CA
CEO: Ajay Gulati. Previously, 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.
Year Founded: 2014
Funding: ZeroStack has raised $21.6 million in funding from two investors, Formation 8 and Foundation Capital.
Competitors include: Both incumbents such as HP (Helion), VMware (vCloud suite), and Microsoft (Azure Pack) and startups like Platform9, Nutanix, and SimpliVity.
Customers Include: AddLogx, AuctionSoftware, Florida Atlantic University, Zimperium
Why they’re in the Big 50-2017: ZeroStack is a two-time Big50 winner! Since the last report, ZeroStack has refined its market positioning and messaging (improving both, I’d argue), rolled out several new cloud automation and migration features, while also landing new on-the-record customers, including AddLogx and AuctionSoftware.
