Netris raises $15M Series A from a16z to help AI neoclouds go live faster
The AI boom has encouraged everyone and their uncle to launch a data center business.
The AI boom has encouraged everyone and their uncle to launch a data center business.
The short version
- Even if you solve the problem of securing the GPUs, network switches, and storage, you still have to get everything configured, running, and be able to cater to customers’ various needs.
- Getting a data center ready to provide cloud-computing services, specifically for AI inference and training, can take months of work.
- And the longer you take to get to market, the higher the cost of having all those precious GPUs sitting idle.
- Network automation startup Netris claims it can make that problem disappear for neoclouds.
What happened
The company provides software that runs on network switches, and it also offers a platform that connects to switches to help neocloud operators reduce the time it takes to go live by automating setup, configuration, and operations. The platform also provides network abstraction, so hardware configurations can be changed as required, and it isolates servers and resources at the hardware layer so neoclouds can serve multiple customers (multi-tenancy).
Why it matters
If that sounds like a solution to an obvious problem, you’re not wrong.
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