OrionVM - Best New Cloud Infrastructure

Company: OrionVM, Sydney, Australia
Company Description: OrionVM’s revolutionary next-gen IaaS suite (virtual storage, compute, orchestration and virtual networking) enables the delivery of high-performing, enterprise-grade cloud solutions at market-leading price/performance ratios. OrionVM supports private, public, and hybrid deployments, boasting a 50%+ reduction in the datacenter footprint (power/hardware) as seen in traditional cloud tech.
Nomination Category: Product & Service Categories - Business Technology Solutions
Nomination Sub Category: Cloud Infrastructure

Nomination Title: OrionVM New MicroPoP offering provides quick and competitive entry into the cloud market

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On November 10, 2020 OrionVM®, an award-winning next-gen Infrastructure as a Service (IaaS) provider, announced the continued growth of the OrionVM Wholesale Cloud Platform with the addition of Micro Point of Presence (PoP) offerings, or MicroPoPs.

Data centers, Internet Service Providers (ISPs) and hosting providers can now quickly launch their own cloud offering closer to their customers, benefitting both the provider and their customer base with the technical and price advantages of OrionVM’s revolutionary IaaS stack.

OrionVM’s MicoPoPs are a unique offering that straddles the space between bare metal and managed virtualized instances to offer the market something entirely new. A MicroPoP can be installed as small as a quarter of a rack, thereby reducing the starting footprint and risks associated with new deployments. Data centers, ISPs and hosting providers can now deliver productized cloud solutions and resell cloud services to their existing client base, under their own company name and in regions previously unserved by current cloud providers. This allows partners to launch their offerings quickly and easily, which is especially vital during the pandemic and the increasing demand for remote workforces that require hosted desktops, distributed applications, and remote security.

Previously data centers could either stand by and lose clients to the public clouds, try to resell the public cloud services (which has proved problematic due to vendor lock-in and poor economics of the business case associated with those limitations), or try to buy and build their own (which entails high CapEx investments and a wide range of technical complexities). OrionVM’s technology removes the onerous costs and support overhead of buying hardware and having to build and manage cloud infrastructure, while also giving partners a full channel cloud ecosystem, from the bottom of the stack all the way to providing a suite of a white-labeled multi-tiered platform with productized cloud services such as Desktop as a Service (DaaS). OrionVM has recently partnered with Parallels to offer partners the Parallels® Remote Application Server (RAS), an all-in-one virtual desktop infrastructure (VDI) solution that delivers applications and virtual desktops to any device, anytime, anywhere. Data centers can now pivot from being a commodity provider of power space and cooling, to become a true cloud player with a wholesale business model and set of networking and product advantages the incumbent cloud vendors cannot match.

Data3 ( https: //www.datathree.com/), who hosts multiple data centers in Oklahoma, has partnered with OrionVM to launch their cloud offering. Data3 will be delivering next-gen cloud to the U.S. Midwest enabling regional IT providers and businesses to quickly gain a competitive advantage in monetizing and delivering their own cloud solutions.

“We are thrilled to be partnering with OrionVM and bring our solution to market in time to meet the urgent need of applications enabling the remote workforce. Next-gen cloud, regionally deployed by a trusted and longtime company like D3, will be a game changer for a lot of IT service providers looking to gain their own identity and differentiation in deploying premium cloud solutions,” said David Harrelson, COO and VP of Data3 Corporation.

Partners such as Data3 can now leverage the entire suite of cloud infrastructure products available to them when they deploy an OrionVM MicroPoP. The starting components of a MicroPoP include IaaS building blocks (virtual compute, virtual block storage, and virtual networking). An a la carte business model lets partners pick and choose which products and services to launch with, and subsequently those that can be added later as their business scales and grows. Additional deployment options include:

-Object Storage Cluster – S3 compatible object storage is an ultra-cost effective way to store large amounts of data without worrying about scaling file systems, especially for backups and infrequent usage.

-Private Cloud – The ability to use Layer 2 networking makes it easy and cost effective to run a secure, private network link to the cloud. OrionVM is network agnostic and can connect with all telcos for links.

-Bare Metal as a Service – MicroPoPs have the ability to run a bare metal stack and still have the burstability to the cloud, all through the same web panel and orchestration.

-GPUs as a Service – MicroPoPs can host a wide variety of Graphics Processing Units (GPUs) in the cloud, either directly on dedicated hardware, or passed through to a virtual machine.

OrionVM’s latest offering, MicroPops, has been well received both by partners as well as industry analysts and journalists. We have attached an impact briefing from 451 Research, media coverage from publications in the US and AU including CRN and DataCenter Knowledge. These articles point to the transformation that has been taking place within the data center, ISP and MSP sectors as they respond to the increased demand to support a work from home culture, including the need to support education institutions in their endeavors to provide virtual classrooms.

Enterprise technology has crossed a significant line this decade, marking the first time enterprises have spent more annually on cloud infrastructure than on data center hardware and software (source: Network World and Synergy Research Group). This is in part due to the ease of simply buying a cloud service with the incumbent public cloud vendors instead of maintaining hardware in a data center and paying IT staff to maintain the hardware. However, the larger cloud providers can still be expensive, and their complex tiered pricing model and hidden charges can significantly hamper sustainable growth. OrionVM gives partners the ability to sell cloud solutions from the onset, setting up the data center or MSP to hit the ground running with a portfolio of competitive cloud services, in regions previously unserved by enterprise grade clouds.