OrionVM Wholesale Pty Limited (trading as OrionVM)[1][2]
is an Australian infrastructure as a service provider and white-label cloud platform. Resellers present customers with a rebranded interface for deploying virtual machine instances, which are only billed for what their customers use. Cloud Harmony benchmarked the OrionVM Cloud Platform's InfiniBand-backed network storage as the world's fastest in 2011.[5]
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 the University of Technology, Sydney and University 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]
For his work at OrionVM, CEO Sheng Yeo was nominated for the 2012 Australian Entrepreneur of the Year[15] and the 2013 Ernst & 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]
OrionVM sells a wholesale cloud infrastructure platform for public, private and hybrid cloud deployments. Vendors can white-label the platform for resale, or for internal use.[23] Prominent resellers include:
To end users, the base of the platform consists of a web panel, where customers are able to deploy virtual machines. For resellers, the logos and theme can be modified to suit their own branding.[29]
Instances
From the panel, users can deploy preconfigured instances with their chosen operating system and required memory. Additional storage disks and IP addresses can be created separately, then assigned to new or existing instances. After shutting down, further resources can be allocated or scaled down.[29][30]