Xervmon: Simplifying Hybrid Cloud Management Date:   Sunday , November 23, 2014 Organizations across the globe have embraced the irrefutable cloud. Thanks to a unique pricing structure - Pay as you go model, where in companies can adopt infrastructure (computing, storage, networking, software and others) as a service. With no upfront CAPEX costs, reduced OPEX costs and many a times, with zero set up costs, adopting cloud is much easier decision. However, cloud migration and management consumes lots of resources, time and money due to the requirements of numerous tools and multiple vendors to manage all assets in the infrastructure with various complexities. Xervmon helps customers by increasing productivity and reducing cost by simplifying entire cloud infrastructure lifecycle management with a unified integrated system to plan, provision, manage and monitor the workloads between your existing on-premise infrastructure or your new assets planned on public, private or hybrid cloud infrastructure. Through the deployment planner module in Xervmon, operations team can easily plan and configure complex networks by drag and drop of components, then connecting these components and finally provisioning the network. Then the deployment can be included to participate within an out of the box business workflow process and automation engine. The IT team including the system architects and project managers are empowered with tools to collaborate on architecture, security and scalability, cost analysis and insights. Within the same tool, Xervmon provides integration with monitoring infrastructure to monitor system stats across the heterogeneous systems spanning hybrid infrastructure. The Texas headquartered company was founded by Babu Jayaram and Sudhi Seshachala buddies for 23 years, first collaborated in 2008, when they founded a consulting company that focused and specialized in helping customers adopt and migrate applications to the cloud. This experience led to a strong belief that an integrated multi cloud management suite was quite critical for organizations to adapt to the paradigm shift that was happening in IaaS space. Hence, the focus shifted from consulting to building products in the year 2012. Once it went live in January 2014, the successful product proved its worth by acquiring more than 50 customers across the globe including American Midstream Partners, Jacob Interactive, Seven Data center, and more in a short span of 6 months. With the slow adoption rate in B2B space, novelty of the product\'s technology and lack of startup experience, the duo grappled to raise funds and faced challenges in hiring great winning team. Learning from the mistakes, founders have progressed well to be profitable in the II year of operations. With a thriving economy and increasing appetite for skilled engineers, the challenge the team has faced in recent times is hiring qualified engineers with the right skill set. With a vision to empower the skills of fresh graduates, Xervmon recently started Gurukul - first raining institute of its kind, that truly helps students and professionals to learn and implement product ideas. Gurukul an initiative of Xervmon envisions to create an ecosystem of learned and learners, empowered with tools and know how to create products. \"Right resources and team composition is important to develop a product continuously. Hence, we train our resources in a non-traditional way. By exposing them to tools available in the market, Xervmon brings them up to speed with the technology and teaches them a new way of implementing their learning,\"says Sudhi, CTO, Xervmon Inc. Apart from the angel investment of $75000, the company is completely bootstrapped. Rather than wasting cycles to raise funds, Xervmon team focused on building the product and signing up more customers. \"We didn\'t depend on funds; but it could\'ve boosted up the process. Having publicly listed companies and large enterprises as customers, we are self-sustaining and are not under the pressure to raise funds,\" says Babu, CEO, Xervmon Inc. True to the name Xervmon, the product monitors servers with various kinds of operating systems. Currently, Xervmon is expanding its development team in Bangalore. The company predominantly having customers from Oil & Gas industry is keen on expanding their vertical of technology they serve. Xervmon supports industry leaders in IaaS space such as Amazon AWS, Rackspace Cloud with support for Google Compute, Openstack, Softlayer and Windows Azure are being planned shortly. Xervmon envisions leading the highly competitive space through constant innovation in integrated systems management tool suite. They envision capturing at least 10 to 15 percent of the cloud infrastructure service market. Seeing such inimitable product in a niche space, it is safe to say it is not just a lavish dream but a shortly feasible goal. Panel: Headquarter: Texas Founders: Babu Jayaram and Sudhi Seshachala Partners: Amazon AWS, Rackspace Cloud, AllianceOne, Google Cloud Platform, Digital Ocean, Openstack, Softstack Services: 1. Cloud deployments 2. Automation & daily routine management 3. Monitoring of these virtual machines 4. Monitoring Applications, libraries hosted on these VMs 5. System level security and application level security 6. Scale out, up, and down scenarios 7. Automated Business process driven provisioning of VMs and applications 8. Continuous Improvement Process driven Agile Application development Products: 1. HP Solutions 2. XOPS - Xervmon Operations Centre Key management: Babu Jayaram, Co-Founder & CEO Babu holds a rich experience of 20 years in cloud, wireless networks and industrial manufacturing after having served as Senior Software Engineer at Nortel Networks followed by Director at Hooduku. Sudhi Seshachala, Co-Founder & CTO Sudhi\'s career graph covers a chain of extensive experience in companies like MSS, Planetasia, ISRO, Smartstream, Glotech, HP, Objectwin Technology, Baker Hughes, Philips Medical Systems, SUN and BEA Systems. Serving 19+ years in software, cloud technologies, IT operations and management, he founded Xervmon and is serving as the company\'s CTO.