opsZero is getting a large refresh across both opsZero as well as on our various brands. As we stated before we are splitting apart our business to have their own identities. As part of this we decided to structure a common design across all our businesses. This allows us to create new businesses in the future with a common templates. While this work is ongoing we are quite excited to announce it now as a significant portion of the sites have been updated to use these new templates.

opsZero will release products and grow our business through mutually beneficial partnerships. Our business is Cloud Infrastructure and our long term plan is to become a Platform for Cloud + AI. However, each vertical has domain specific knowledge we lack and do not have a large team while limits our reach.

Partnerships​

When I look at opsZero's failures it has been largely around going into new verticals alone. If opsZero goes at a vertical alone we had to figure out the market, the marketing, and sales. It creates the onus on us to deliver and sell and learn a new industry. Even if we move horizontally within an industry we will still need to context switch as we sell from startups to governments to healthcare. This prevents us from focusing on a single vertical making our growth feel haphazard and lacking focus. We need teams single threaded focused on each vertical.

Traditionally, a company that wants to grow its business either hires people with expertise to build that business or buys a business that has those relationships. The problem with that is it becomes a capital expenditure where a failure means a total loss, partnerships allow us to make entering new verticals an operational expenditure. This reduces the cost of launching and testing something new and attacking it with people who are already knowledgeable.

Our goal long term with opsZero is to build a bazaar style platform servicing the needs of multiple verticals cobuilt with partners. We will become a distribution focused company with the current services becoming another “partner” within the ecosystem. Our buckets are Cloud and AI. All our products and services should live within these two buckets. And each service we release should have a partner who is responsible for servicing it.

This changes the organizational structure of the company to be like a startup studio or incubator. While we should sell a cohesive whole to our customers, behind the scenes it can be our partners who service the end result for a particular vertical while we complement them with our value add.

Solutions​

Our release methodology will change to the following:

• Figure out the service we want to create for a vertical.
• Find partners who could be good fits for coselling that product. Figure out ways we can partner with them.
• Cobranded and create a joint venture and cosell with partner. Focus on distribution and support the partner with data and sales resources.
• Continuously work with partner to more effectively reach customers and service the work for the customers.

The things we can do with a partner are three fold:

• Comarketing such as content, webinar, videos or other.
• Build new products that combines our strengths.
• Emails or other joint collaboration.
• Products

For the last decade opsZero has been a service’s first business. We built up a repository of deep knowledge about the Cloud and AI and accumulated various partnerships to boot. However, the problem is what does opsZero do becomes harder to explain. We do so many different things as a services company that it is becoming impossible to explain to customers what we do concisely.

So to both simplify the business and to make it easier to explain to potential customers our value we are breaking apart opsZero into various parts:

• Kubespot
• DiscountCloud
• DBAZero
• OMYAC
• PolicyCop
• deepfacts.ai

Yes, we are splitting opsZero into five specialized businesses.

Second, we are turning these businesses into product first businesses. This allows us to build out our offerings in scalable ways with focused leadership on each product and a set of KPIs that allow each business to scale independently.

At this point we have leadership for each of these subbusinesses including Sohan for Kubespot, Lokesh for DBAZero, Swarup for DiscountCloud, and Vamsi for deepfacts.ai. We are excited to see how we can scale each of these businesses.

So what does this mean for opsZero?

opsZero is becoming a company focused on bringing cloud native software to market. While we are starting with the five new products our long term goal is to bring additional products to market.

All websites are now standardized on Docusaurus. This allows us to more easily manage and maintain our ventures. With the usage of Docusaurus we can now easily share code and content between ventures and allow for a more consistent go to market across all ventures.

While Docusarus doesn’t have all the bells and whistles of other frameworks like NextJS, etc. it is a framework that does get out of the way. opsZero site has been migrated from WordPress to now being hosted on Cloudflare Workers using Docusaurus. Docusarus can be used to make any pages not just documentation sites. Further, it is opinionated in the way it is structured which is what we like, a standardized way of organizing content across all the new ventures we are looking to launch such as DiscountCloud.io

We now have a Google Analytics integration to allow us to track website visitors for our ventures using the Deming Control Chart methodology. While this is not exactly an exciting feature, it is our first integration point for monitoring and track venture metrics.

We now have a lead list filtering feature to allow us to cosell with AWS. This lead list filtering now allows us to find opportunities across the AWS ecosystem for startups and SLED for us to perform outreach.

We are excited to announce that we are now closely working with Vanta. As a partner of Vanta, we are able to offer our customers a streamlined experience for managing their security and compliance needs. We are able to provide our customers with a comprehensive solution that includes security monitoring, compliance management, and risk assessment.

As part of this partnerships:

• We are now reselling Vanta as an MSP.
• We have a close relationship with Vanta's sales team.
• We are building custom integrations with Vanta to streamline any issues.

With this we are combining the sales processes of MakeProspect with the compliance remediation of PolicyCop.

For the v1.1.1 release of MakeProspect we are focusing on the lead list filtering, onboarding companies onto our platform, and setting up the WhatsApp groups that we use to interact with customers. Lastly, we are focusing in on the campaigns feature to start building out the outreach capabilities.

Overall this is an internal release and not an external feature release.

Having the flexibility to run your applications across different cloud providers allows organizations to leverage the benefit of each cloud. Kubernetes enables cloud-agnostic portability, allowing you to seamlessly shift your workloads to take advantage of various products and incentives offered by cloud providers.

Why Kubernetes for Cloud Portability?​

1. Consistency Across Clouds Kubernetes provides a consistent environment across different cloud platforms, ensuring your applications run smoothly regardless of the underlying infrastructure.

2. Flexibility and Choice Easily move workloads between AWS, GCP, and other public clouds to leverage the best offerings and incentives available.

3. Cost Optimization By being cloud-agnostic, you can optimize costs by choosing the most cost-effective provider for your needs at any given time.

4. Disaster Recovery Enhance your disaster recovery strategy by distributing workloads across multiple clouds, reducing the risk of downtime.

5. Avoid Vendor Lock-In Maintain control over your infrastructure and avoid being locked into a single cloud provider.

Comparing Cloud Providers: AWS vs GCP vs Other Public Clouds​

AWS​

• Mature Ecosystem: Extensive range of services and tools, from compute and storage to advanced AI and ML.
• Global Reach: Largest network of data centers worldwide, ensuring low latency and high availability.
• Robust Security: Comprehensive security and compliance capabilities.

GCP​

• Cutting-Edge AI/ML: Leading in AI and machine learning services, powered by Google’s expertise.
• Data Analytics: Superior data analytics tools, including BigQuery for fast and scalable querying.

Other Public Clouds​

• Competitive Pricing: Often offer competitive pricing and unique incentives to attract customers.
• Specialized Services: Some public clouds provide services tailored to specific industries or use cases.
• Regional Availability: Presence in specific regions where major providers may have limited reach — important for organizations with strict data privacy regulations.

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by Michael Doherty · Jul 16, 2024

At opsZero, we understand the critical importance of enabling sustainable solutions for the future. Our commitment to carbon neutrality and reducing environmental impact drives us to continually adopt innovative practices and frameworks. By helping our customers lower costs and decrease resource usage, we are making strides toward a more sustainable future.

In an era of rapid AI adoption, the demand for compute resources is skyrocketing. To reduce emissions and energy consumption, we implement a multi-pronged approach:

1. Application Modernization​

Transitioning from Virtual Machines to containerized architectures significantly enhances resource utilization, scalability, and energy efficiency.

2. Cloud Migration​

Moving applications from on-premises to public and private clouds allows us to leverage shared resources in secure, controlled environments. For example, AWS infrastructure is up to 4.1× more energy efficient than on-premises solutions and can reduce a workload’s carbon footprint by up to 99%.

3. Advanced Technologies​

Utilizing AWS Graviton processors, which are more efficient than traditional x86 processors, helps us achieve greater energy efficiency.

4. Workload Optimization​

Running workloads on the compute processors that are best suited for a particular application—such as AI training vs. inference—to maximize performance and resource usage.

5. Sustainable Data Centers​

Partnering with data centers that operate on renewable energy and are innovating to reduce water usage further supports our sustainability goals.

✨ Join us at opsZero in our mission to reduce consumption and carbon emissions for future prosperity.