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| Company type | Privately held company[1][2] |
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| Industry | Internet hosting services |
| Founder | Sheng Yeo(CEO) Alex Sharp(CTO) Joseph Glanville |
| Headquarters | Sydney, Australia and San Francisco, California[3] |
| Products | OrionVM Wholesale Cloud Platform |
Number of employees | 50(estimated)[4] |
| Website | OrionVM.com |
OrionVM Wholesale Pty Limited (trading asOrionVM)[1][2] is an Australianinfrastructure as a service provider andwhite-label cloud platform.Resellers present customers with a rebranded interface for deployingvirtual machine instances, which are only billed for what their customers use. Cloud Harmony benchmarked the OrionVM Cloud Platform'sInfiniBand-backed network storage as the world's fastest in 2011.[5]
The company was founded and is headquartered inSydney,Australia,[6][7]with offices inSan Francisco,California.[3]
OrionVM was founded in a dorm by Sheng Yeo,[8] Alex Sharp[9] and Joseph Glanville in 2010.[10] The company's cloud platform was developed while the founders were still students at theUniversity of Technology, Sydney andUniversity of Sydney.[9] After fifteen months of development, their cloud platform entered a Public Beta programme, with a full launch on 1 April 2011.[11]
In 2011, the company receivedangel investments from Australian entrepreneur andPIPE Networks co-founder Stephen Baxter[12][13]and AmericanGordon Bell ofDEC andMicrosoft Research.[14]
For his work at OrionVM, CEO Sheng Yeo was nominated for the 2012 Australian Entrepreneur of the Year[15] and the 2013Ernst & Young Entrepreneur of the Year.[8]
In 2014, OrionVM received a State Merit award and a National Finalist nomination in the 2014 iAwards, with CTO Alex Sharp winning the Hills YIA Cloud award.[16] The company was nominated for a Stevie Award for New Product or Service of the Year in Cloud Infrastructure Software,[17] and an Australian Startup Awards nomination.[18]
In 2016, Yeo and Sharp were named in the Forbes 30 Under 30 Asia list.[19]
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| Developer(s) | OrionVM |
| Initial release | 1 April 2010; 14 years ago (2010-04-01) |
| Written in | C,Python[20] |
| Operating system | Linux for hypervisor and instances,Windows Server for instances |
| Platform | Xen[21] |
| Available in | English |
| Type | Infrastructure as a Service |
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| Website | Official website |
OrionVM sells a wholesale cloud infrastructure platform forpublic,private andhybrid cloud deployments. Vendors canwhite-label the platform for resale, or for internal use.[23] Prominent resellers include:
OrionVM uses theXen hypervisor tovirtualise multiplemachines (referred to as "instances") on the same hardware.[21]Linux instances useparavirtualisation for reduced overhead by default, withWindows Server being deployed using hardware-assisted virtualisation (HVM).
Traditionalvirtual private server andinfrastructure as a service providers consolidatestorage into astorage area network, which is limited byEthernet network speeds and best-effort reliability. OrionVM's platform took design cues fromsupercomputers by placinghypervisor storage and compute on the samephysical servers.[27] These are backed by adecentralisedInfiniBandfabric.[28] This improves network reliability and performance, and allows for rapid rollover between physical hosts forhigh availability.
To end users, the base of the platform consists of aweb panel, where customers are able to deploy virtual machines. For resellers, the logos and theme can be modified to suit their own branding.[29]
From the panel, users can deploy preconfigured instances with their chosenoperating system and requiredmemory. Additionalstorage disks andIP addresses can be created separately, then assigned to new or existing instances. After shutting down, further resources can be allocated orscaled down.[29][30]
Instances can be accessedout-of-band via a web-basedserial console orVNC session. Access is also available via ovm_ctl, an open source command line interface available fromGitHub[20] and thepip package manager.[22]
Linux machines come preconfigured withSSH, and Windows withRDP forremote access.
Instances can be provisioned from a series of predefined templates, which can be customised if required. They include:[31]
Vyatta templates are officially supported forsoftware-definedlogical networking between instances.
A publicAPI exists for controlling instances.Open sourcePython bindings are available onGitHub.[20]
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