Episode 15 - OnApp
Great Things with Great Tech Podcast
Anthony Spiteri
5.0 • 4 Ratings
🗓️ 26 November 2020
⏱️ 36 minutes
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Summary
In this episode I talk with Jim Freeman, Head of Solutions at OnApp. OnApp provides a complete Infrastructure-as-a-Service (IaaS) software platform for hosting companies, cloud providers, managed service providers and telecoms companies. Service Providers can create a wide range of cloud, dedicated hosting, CDN, DNS and storage services on top of commodity datacenter infrastructure; automate them completely through a central control panel. Jim and I discuss the early days backing Xen as a compute platform, the key partnership with VMware and OnApp's Federation service which is a true Cloud Computing Marketplace.
OnApp was founded in 2010 and is based the United Kingdom.
Technology and Technology Partners Mentioned
DELL, VMware, KVM, Xen, Kubernetes, VMware Cloud Director, NSX-v, NSX-T
Web: https://onapp.com
OnApp Federation: https://onapp.com/onapp-federation
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| 0:00.0 | Hello and welcome to Great Things with Great Tech. |
| 0:10.8 | This is episode 15. |
| 0:12.7 | My name's Anthony Spiteri, and this podcast is all about highlighting companies doing great things with great tech. |
| 0:18.5 | And in this episode, talking to Jim Freeman, head of solutions at |
| 0:22.8 | Onap. Welcome to the show, Jim. Hi. Thanks. Excellent stuff. So you're in Ukraine at the moment |
| 0:28.7 | this morning. This is a bit of a side note. I am. Yeah. I'm British, but I spend most of my time |
| 0:34.8 | in Ukraine nowadays. Beautiful, excellent. |
| 0:38.0 | So just before we dig into Onap, you know, if you love great things with great tech |
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| 1:00.6 | listen to as well as all the previous episodes. Done for 2020 shortly and 2021 is going to be |
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| 1:17.6 | all things, great things with great tech. Right, Jim, with that out of the way, let's get |
| 1:23.7 | onto OnApps. So, you know, On apps, actually, before we start, why don't you describe on app and what you guys do? |
| 1:30.7 | And then we'll basically break down into some history. |
| 1:33.3 | Yeah, of course. |
| 1:33.9 | So at its core, on apps are a cloud management platform. |
| 1:38.4 | It sits on Zen KVM, VMware. |
| 1:42.1 | We have a CDN portion as well. We have both on premise and SaaS versions of it. |
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