[gte910h]

Another alternative is running in a VMWare virtual machine for them, or allowing them to upload it themselves to cloud providers.

[gte910h]

Has hacker news not heard of Virtual Machine Appliances?

http://www.vmware.com/appliances/

You can buy VM Images that do all sorts of things with no configuration whatsoever. Multiple VMWare images running on customer hardware is an alternative solution for this company if they're trying to sell to people like Cisco and AT&T etc.