Eliminating the headaches of the traditional private Cloud model | #OpenStack by Nelson Williams | Apr 27, 2016 There’s no question the Cloud is the future of tech business, but remote computing is nothing unless a company can run its applications there. This has been something of a challenge. Moving established operations to the Cloud requires time, money and skilled people who can juggle between traditional and new wave technology. There’s a market for companies that can make the Cloud easy. To open a window on this market, Stu Miniman (@stu) and Brian Gracely (@bgracely), cohosts of theCUBE, from the SiliconANGLE Media team, spoke to Ajay Gulati, cofounder and CEO of ZeroStackat, during the OpenStack Summit in Austin, TX. Moving to another model The discussion started with Gulati describing the Cloud model his company offers. The traditional private Cloud model, he said, involved buying hardware, building the stack and getting a headache from doing everything yourself. This is broken and hard to consume. The ZeroStack model provides tested infrastructure, and then allows a company to consume that infrastructure through a software portal, like logging into a public Cloud. “We ship a box to customers,” he said. “They log into the portal, and they can have a Cloud up and running in 30 minutes.” Going operational It’s about running applications on the Cloud, Gulati said, which is what people really want to do. “We are moving from building Clouds to running apps on the Cloud,” he said. Gulati then explained how ZeroStack works with OpenStack. He said they looked at other options but chose OpenStack because of its maturity. Now, ZeroStack runs 100 percent OpenStack APIs on its platform. Although customers are usually more concerned about use cases at first, he said, when they ask about APIs, Gulati tells them about OpenStack. Once the customer learns it’s all running on commodity hardware with software special sauce, they’re comfortable with that, he said.