CloudOrcus Compute
CloudOrcus provides a robust, enterprise-grade platform for managing virtual machine (VM) workloads across your entire data center footprint whether you’re running multiple, regionally distributed data centers or operating in a hybrid multi-cloud environment. By abstracting the complexity of physical server infrastructure, CloudOrcus empowers you, your internal and external teams, end-users (public & private), vendors, and other stakeholders to provision, scale, and optimize VMs with the same agility and consistency you’d expect from leading public cloud providers all while retaining full ownership and control over your hardware. This unified approach simplifies operations, ensures compliance with industry standards, and enables on-demand, enterprise-grade services that adapt seamlessly to your organization’s growth and innovation needs.
Automated Provisioning & Configuration
Achieve faster time-to-market for new applications or services by automating the entire VM lifecycle. Remove the friction of manual provisioning and let users focus on core business functionality.
Rapid, One-Click Provisioning
Spin up virtual machines in minutes using an intuitive portal or API. This dramatically reduces the time to deploy new services or expand existing ones.
Pre-Configured Templates
Access an extensive library of industry-standard templates like Windows Server, Ubuntu, CentOS and Red Hat etc. These templates come with best-practice configurations, security hardening, and optional software stacks to accelerate deployment.
Custom Image Support
Easily create and manage custom VM images with specific OS configurations, application software, or security protocols. Re-use these images across multiple regions, projects, teams, or environments.
On-Demand & Reserved Instances
On-Demand for elastic, pay-as-you-go usage, giving you immediate capacity without long-term commitments.
Reserved Instances for predictable or long-term workloads, offering cost savings and guaranteed resource availability.
Achieve faster time-to-market for new applications or services by automating the entire VM lifecycle. Remove the friction of manual provisioning and let users focus on core business functionality.
Custom Configuration Management
Enforce consistency and compliance at scale by embedding operational policies directly into the VM provisioning process. This reduces configuration drift, minimizes manual errors, and speeds up delivery of standardized, production-ready environments.
Define CPU, memory, disk, and network requirements for each VM. CloudOrcus ensures these parameters are applied consistently across all environments, maintaining predictable performance and resource usage.
Integrate your own scripts—such as PowerShell, Bash, or Ansible—into the provisioning workflow. This approach standardizes application deployments and system setups, ensuring each VM aligns with your organization’s best practices and security requirements.
Automate the installation and configuration of software at provisioning time. For example, you can deploy complete LAMP/LEMP stacks, container runtimes, or custom developer tools as soon as the VM boots, accelerating project setup.
Leverage popular configuration management tools for first-boot customization, including patch management, software installation, and security configuration. This ensures every VM meets your exact specifications upon initial startup.
Enforce consistency and compliance at scale by embedding operational policies directly into the VM provisioning process. This reduces configuration drift, minimizes manual errors, and speeds up delivery of standardized, production-ready environments.
Enterprise-Grade Scalability & Performance
Match resources to workloads in real time while keeping costs in check. By leveraging CloudOrcus’ built-in high availability and fault tolerance mechanisms, you can confidently deliver robust SLAs for even the most mission-critical applications.
Elastic Horizontal Scaling
Seamlessly scale out or scale in virtual machines based on CPU, memory, or custom performance metrics. CloudOrcus monitors resource usage in real time and automatically adjusts capacity to accommodate fluctuating demands maintaining optimal performance without manual intervention.
Workload Placement Optimization
Intelligent algorithms ensure new VMs are deployed in the most suitable regions or physical hosts, optimizing for factors like power efficiency, resource utilization, and failover requirements. This results in balanced workloads, reduced contention, and smoother operations across your infrastructure.
High-Performance Compute Options
CloudOrcus can enable, optimize, and manage specialized hardware such as GPUs, FPGAs, or ARM-based servers when available in your environment. This is invaluable for advanced AI/ML tasks (e.g., model training and inference using frameworks like TensorFlow or PyTorch), big data analytics, real-time inventory management, transaction processing, HPC simulations, or other computationally intensive workloads that demand accelerated performance.
Reliability & Availability
Achieve high uptime and resiliency with built-in multi-zone and multi-region redundancy. If a hardware or network issue arises, CloudOrcus automatically migrates or restarts workloads on healthy hosts to maintain service continuity and meet stringent SLAs.
Integrated Lifecycle Management
Manage the entire VM lifecycle from a single platform, minimizing both operational overhead and risk. CloudOrcus ensures that each phase—from initial deployment and updates to eventual retirement—is handled cleanly, transparently, and in compliance with your organizational policies.
Lifecycle Policies
Automate tasks such as VM expiration, backup schedules, and decommissioning based on time or usage thresholds. This helps prevent the accumulation of unused or outdated VMs, reducing resource waste and minimizing security risks.
Snapshot & Backup Management
Create point-in-time snapshots before significant changes or as part of a regular backup strategy. Instantly restore a VM if an update fails or roll back to a known stable state to reduce downtime and accelerate recovery.
Version Control
Track and manage changes to VM configurations over time. Quickly revert to previous configurations or merge updates from multiple teams, ensuring consistency and traceability across development, testing, and production environments.
Migration & Clone Workflows
Seamlessly move or clone VMs between regions, data centers, or host clusters. This capability is especially valuable for migrating development environments to production, replicating workloads for testing, or balancing capacity across different locations.
Unified Security & Governance
Effortlessly uphold enterprise-grade security and compliance standards—even as you scale to hundreds or thousands of VMs globally. By centralizing security policies and audit controls, CloudOrcus helps you maintain robust governance without sacrificing agility or performance.
IAM & RBAC Integration
Govern who can create, modify, or delete virtual machines by configuring Identity and Access Management (IAM) and Role-Based Access Control (RBAC) rules. Assign fine-grained permissions by department, project, or user role to ensure accountability and alignment with organizational policies.
Compliance & Audit Readiness
Capture detailed logs of every provisioning event, configuration update, and user action in a central audit trail. This helps satisfy regulatory obligations (e.g., SOC 2, PCI-DSS, HIPAA) while streamlining audit processes, breach investigations, and governance reporting.
Network Isolation & Firewalls
Control inbound and outbound traffic using virtual networking constructs—such as Virtual Private Clouds (VPCs), subnets, and security groups. This architecture allows you to isolate sensitive workloads, microservices, or multi-tenant environments without the need for separate physical hardware.
Encryption at Rest & In Transit
Secure disk volumes and network data flows with modern encryption standards and protocols. This ensures data integrity and privacy whether it’s stored on persistent volumes, in backups, or traveling across internal or external networks.
Observability & Resource Insights
Stay proactive with capacity planning, reduce mean-time-to-recovery (MTTR), and keep infrastructure expenses in check through deep visibility and data-driven optimization. By leveraging CloudOrcus’ rich observability suite, your teams can continuously refine performance, security, and availability for every VM in your environment.
Real-Time Metrics & Alerts
Continuously monitor VM health indicators—such as CPU, memory, storage, and network throughput—and set threshold-based alerts. When metrics exceed defined limits, CloudOrcus can trigger automated responses or send notifications to rapidly address potential issues.
Performance Dashboards
Gain granular insights into resource utilization and performance bottlenecks through intuitive dashboards. Quickly identify hotspots or underutilized capacity to optimize both costs and system throughput, ensuring smooth operations across workloads.
Integration with Logging & Analytics
Forward logs and telemetry data to CloudOrcus Logging, third-party observability tools (e.g., Splunk, Datadog), or SIEM solutions for comprehensive analysis. Correlate infrastructure metrics with application-level data to diagnose root causes, detect anomalies, and maintain robust security postures.
Predictive Scaling & Cost Optimization
Harness machine learning-based forecasting to anticipate workload spikes, seasonal trends, or shifting usage patterns. Automatically adjust resource allocations in advance, striking the right balance between performance and cost control.
Seamless API & DevOps Integration
Empower DevOps and engineering teams with the tools and automation capabilities they need to iterate, scale, and innovate quickly—while maintaining consistent governance and security across all lifecycle stages.
RESTful APIs & CLI
Execute all VM-related operations such as provisioning, configuration, snapshotting, and decommissioning programmatically. This enables full automation within CI/CD pipelines or scripting environments, reducing manual overhead and error risk.
SDKs for Multiple Languages
Integrate CloudOrcus VM management into your applications or management consoles using popular programming languages like Python, Go, Java, .NET, Node.js, and PHP. This flexibility empowers teams to build custom workflows that align with their toolchains.
Terraform & Other IaC Tools
Define and manage your VM infrastructure using Infrastructure-as-Code (IaC) solutions like Terraform or Ansible. By codifying your configurations, you can automate deployments, enforce best practices, and maintain a consistent environment across development, staging, and production.
Webhooks & Event Notifications
Configure event-driven workflows that trigger custom actions—such as Slack notifications, ticket creation, or serverless functions—upon VM status changes or lifecycle events. This approach allows for rapid, responsive operations that adapt to real-time infrastructure updates.