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by orionvmjoseph 5337 days ago
Hi, I'm Joseph. Another of the OrionVM Founders. :)

To add to what Alex said above..

I think the major misconceptions are caused by the fact that most of what we are doing is done much like a "stealth" mode startup.

We -are- a service provider, but under the hood we are very much a tech company building the next generation of IaaS technologies. That is not to say we won't just be a service provider in the future - but only there is much more happening here at OrionHQ.

For instance we have developed a fully distributed block storage platform on Infiniband that does away with the scaling and performance issues of EBS, traditional SANs like HDS/Netapp etc. It is also a fraction of the cost to build and maintain, along with having a ton of other benefits.

We very much pride ourselves on being an innovative company and I just wanted to communicate that we aren't an Amazon clone. But this post is getting long in the tooth and I don't want to come off as a "butthurt founder". :P

Welcome to have a chat with anyone interested in what we do, we are also hiring btw! :)

Capt Obvious Disclaimer: I am an OrionVM founder.

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For instance we have developed a fully distributed block storage platform on Infiniband that does away with the scaling and performance issues of EBS, traditional SANs like HDS/Netapp etc. It is also a fraction of the cost to build and maintain, along with having a ton of other benefits.

Do you sell this tech?

Everybody wants us to sell it. We currently arn't aiming to, though.

We are wholesaling this though, and we are looking at massively stepping it up. If you're interested, come talk to us.