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Rafay Systems, a leader in cloud-native and AI infrastructure orchestration and management, today announced its integration in the NVIDIA Enterprise AI Factory validated design, a major initiative intended to accelerate the development of sovereign AI agents and AI factories.

Today, Rafay Systems, a leader in cloud-native and AI infrastructure orchestration & management, announced general availability of the company’s Serverless Inference offering, a token-metered API for running open-source and privately trained or tuned LLMs. Many NVIDIA Cloud Providers (NCPs) and GPU Clouds are already leveraging the Rafay Platform to deliver a multi-tenant, Platform-as-a-Service experience to their customers, complete with self-service consumption of compute and AI applications. These NCPs and GPU Clouds can now deliver Serverless Inference as a turnkey service at no additional cost, enabling their customers to build and scale AI applications fast, without having to deal with the cost and complexity of building automation, governance, and controls for GPU-based infrastructure.

Rafay Systems, a pioneer in delivering Platform-as-a-Service (PaaS) capabilities for self-service compute consumption, and Netris, a leader in networking automation, abstraction, and multi-tenancy for AI and cloud operators, today announced a strategic partnership aimed at transforming GPU cloud infrastructure for enterprises racing to establish AI capabilities and applications.

Rafay Systems, the leading provider of Platform-as-a-Service (PaaS) capabilities for cloud-native and GPU and AI consumption, today announced the availability of Federal Information Processing Standard (FIPS) 140-2 compliance for its self-hosted controller. With this certification, public sector customers can securely deploy the Rafay Platform in GovCloud and other highly sensitive environments while meeting strict federal security standards. Rafay’s ISV customers can also leverage the FIPS-compliant self-hosted controller to deliver their cloud-native apps to public sector customers.

Rafay Systems, the leading provider of Platform-as-a-Service (PaaS) capabilities for cloud-native and GPU and AI consumption, today announced its inclusion in the Deloitte Technology Fast 500™, a ranking of the 500 fastest-growing technology, media, telecommunications, life sciences, fintech and energy tech companies in North America. Rafay has been recognized for its 468% revenue growth from 2020 to 2023.

Rafay Systems, the leading provider of Platform-as-a-Service (PaaS) capabilities for cloud-native and GPU and AI consumption, today announced new platform advancements that help enterprises and GPU cloud providers deliver developer-friendly consumption workflows for GPU infrastructure. The new Rafay Platform capabilities include enterprise-grade controls, SKU definition, customer-specific policy enforcement and granular chargeback data. Enterprises investing in GPU-based infrastructure in data centers can leverage the Rafay Platform to roll out feature-rich enterprise-wide GPU clouds that developers and data scientists can consume on demand — complete with workbenches for model training, fine-tuning and inferencing. GPU cloud providers deploying GPUs for consumption by downstream customers can leverage the Rafay Platform to operate a full-featured, multi-tenant GPU PaaS that delivers both accelerated computing resources along with AI and ML tooling for training, tuning and serving large language models (LLMs).

Rafay Systems, the leading Platform-as-a-Service (PaaS) provider for modern infrastructure and accelerated computing, today announced the availability of its inaugural survey, revealing that more than 9 in 10 (93%) of platform teams face persistent challenges. Top challenges include managing Kubernetes complexity, keeping Kubernetes and cloud costs low, and boosting developer productivity. The study, titled “The Pulse of Enterprise Platform Teams: Cloud, Kubernetes and AI,” analyzes challenges faced by platform engineering teams across the enterprise segment. To address these hurdles, organizations are emphasizing environment standardization, cost control and improved developer experiences, with a growing focus on automation and self-service solutions. The self-service trend extends to AI adoption, where a majority of respondents believe pre-configured AI workspaces with built-in machine learning operations (MLOps) and large language model operations (LLMOps) tooling could potentially unlock $1.4 million in productivity gains for an organization with 100 developers.

Rafay Systems, the leading Platform-as-a-Service (PaaS) provider for modern infrastructure and accelerated computing, today unveiled its Cost Optimization Suite, to address the urgent challenge of balancing modernization with the need to control infrastructure and operational costs in increasingly complex cloud and on-premises environments. The Cost Optimization Suite proactively reduces costs rather than just reporting them — it continuously analyzes spending patterns and automatically adjusts resources, eliminating repetitive manual intervention. It empowers platform and FinOps teams to focus on strategic initiatives instead of constant cost management by directly optimizing Kubernetes, AI and cloud resources in real time. Rafay customers report savings of up to 60% when using the Cost Optimization Suite.

Rafay Systems, the leading Platform-as-a-Service (PaaS) provider for modern infrastructure and accelerated computing, announced today that it has extended the capabilities of its enterprise PaaS for modern infrastructure to support graphics processing unit- (GPU-) based workloads. This makes compute resources for AI instantly consumable by developers and data scientists with the enterprise-grade guardrails Rafay customers leverage today. The company also launched a new AI Suite with standards-based pipelines for machine learning operations (MLOps) and large language model operations (LLMOps) to help enterprise platform teams quicken the development and deployment of AI applications for developers and data scientists.

Rafay Systems, the leading platform provider for Cloud and Kubernetes Automation, today announced the availability of the Rafay Cloud Automation Platform — the evolution of its Kubernetes Operations Platform — to enable platform teams to deliver automation and self-service capabilities to developers, data scientists and other cloud users. This new version combines Rafay’s Kubernetes and environment management offerings into a single platform. It provides organizations with a comprehensive solution for building self-service automation to provision and manage the full stack (i.e., infrastructure, environments, clusters, applications, etc.) which is required to support modern applications — across any environment including public clouds, private data centers and the edge. The Cloud Automation Platform facilitates, for example, a way for platform teams to provide self-service infrastructure templates for generative AI use cases to developers and data scientists, while being able to effortlessly manage continuous operations of AI and machine learning (ML) applications. Enterprise platform team members, developers and data scientists attending AWS re:Invent 2023 in Las Vegas this week can see live demonstrations at Rafay’s booth 918.

Rafay Systems, the leading platform provider of cloud and Kubernetes automation, announced it has joined NVIDIA Inception, a program that nurtures startups revolutionizing industries with technological advancements.

Rafay Systems, the leading platform provider for Cloud and Kubernetes Automation, today announced the availability of curated infrastructure templates for Generative AI (GenAI) use cases that many enterprises are exploring today. These templates are designed to bring together the power of Rafay’s Environment Management and Kubernetes Management capabilities, along with best-in-class tools used by developers and data scientists to extract business value from GenAI.

Rafay Systems, the leading platform provider for Kubernetes Management and Operations, today announced it has been named as a Cool Vendor in the “2023 Gartner Cool Vendors in Container Management” report. Rafay’s SaaS-first approach helps enterprise platform teams speed digital transformation initiatives and increase developer productivity while applying controls required for enterprise-wide adoption. As a result, Rafay customers operate complex, mission-critical Kubernetes infrastructure across their private and public cloud environments more efficiently to help developers and data scientists bring new applications and features to market faster. Gartner research revealed that “by 2027, more than 90% of G2000 organizations running containerized applications in hybrid deployments will be leveraging container management tooling, up from fewer than 20% in 2023.”

Rafay Systems, the leading platform provider for Kubernetes Management and Operations, today announced an on-demand webinar featuring Forrester Research on the current state of cloud, Kubernetes and platform teams in the enterprise. Moderated by CIO Content Strategist Sara Kirk, Rafay co-founder and CEO Haseeb Budhani and Forrester principal analyst Lee Sustar discuss the growing Kubernetes market, how enterprises are modernizing IT, the expanding usage of containers and how Kubernetes fits into the cloud native ecosystem. The webcast is now available for viewing on CIO.

Rafay Systems, the leading platform provider for Kubernetes Management and Operations, today announced Automated Fleet Operations, a new capability integrated into its Kubernetes Operations Platform (KOP) that simplifies the way enterprises manage large Kubernetes cluster environments across datacenters, public clouds (e.g., Amazon Web Services, Microsoft Azure, Google Cloud Platform) and the edge. Rafay’s Automated Fleet Operations eliminates the error-prone, manual processes of traditional Kubernetes cluster fleet operations by implementing repeatable, automated workflows that can be applied to multiple clusters. This allows platform and operations teams that are already stretched thin to increase productivity and improve the reliability of lifecycle management operations performed on Kubernetes clusters fleet-wide.

Rafay Systems today announced the availability of its Kubernetes Operations Platform (KOP) in the Red Hat Ecosystem Catalog, an open cloud catalog that makes it easy to find and deploy Red Hat-certified software for container-based environments. Enterprises using Red Hat OpenShift in data centers or in the cloud, or those operating a combination of Red Hat OpenShift and managed Kubernetes services, e.g., Amazon Elastic Kubernetes Service (Amazon EKS), Microsoft Azure Kubernetes Service (AKS) and Google Kubernetes Engine (GKE), can consume Rafay’s SaaS offering to standardize Kubernetes configuration and policies across all clusters. Customers can also leverage Rafay to centrally and easily standardize multi-tenancy models across Red Hat OpenShift and EKS/AKS/GKE, along with more secure access for developers across clouds and data centers. Enterprises using Red Hat OpenShift Service on AWS or Microsoft Azure Red Hat OpenShift can also leverage Rafay capabilities for centralized management and control through a single pane of glass.

Today at KubeCon + CloudNativeCon, Rafay Systems, the leading platform provider for Kubernetes Management and Operations, introduced Rafay’s Backstage Plugins, a set of open-source software plugins for Backstage, Spotify’s open platform for building internal developer platforms (IDP). These plugins give platform teams the ability to quickly and easily connect the Rafay Kubernetes Operations Platform (KOP) to their IDP and power developer self-service workflows including Kubernetes cluster as a service, namespace as a service and environment as a service. By defining and governing developer self-service workflows, platform engineers simplify the developer experience and reduce developer cognitive load.

Rafay Systems, the leading platform provider for Kubernetes Management and Operations, today announced independent research that found a developer experience (DevEx) gap between what application developers expect from their organization’s environment provisioning process and the methods currently available to them. The “Understanding Environment Provisioning for Application Development and Deployment” survey of over 500 platform teams—composed of platform and cloud engineering, architecture and operations professionals—and application developers at enterprises revealed that a quarter of organizations (25%) reportedly take three months or longer to deploy a modern application or service after it’s code complete. The majority of respondents (61%) indicated that environment provisioning is a major roadblock to accelerating the timeframe for application deployments.

Rafay Systems, the leading platform provider for Kubernetes Management and Operations, today introduced Environment Manager, a solution that empowers enterprise platform teams to improve the developer experience by delivering self-service capabilities for provisioning full-stack environments. Environment Manager drives seamless collaboration between platform teams and developers by enabling developers to provision modern application stacks from environment blueprints that are curated, tested and continuously managed by platform teams. Integrated with Rafay’s Kubernetes Operations Platform (KOP), Environment Manager enhances the developer experience by abstracting the complexity and reducing the time required to provision and access Kubernetes-based environments, while enabling platform teams to operate the same Kubernetes practice that runs in their organization today.

Rafay Systems, the leading platform provider for Kubernetes management and operations, today announced record business growth resulting from the increasing demand for their Rafay Kubernetes Operations Platform (KOP). The company doubled its annual recurring revenue (ARR) and grew its employee base by 40%. Delivering unmatched value to its customers, including Moneygram and Guardant Health, Rafay achieved a net promoter score (NPS) of 71 and a 100% customer satisfaction score in all four quarters of its past fiscal year. Additionally, the number of Kubernetes clusters under its management continues to grow, more than doubling over the past year.

Rafay Systems, the leading platform provider for Kubernetes Management and Operations, announced it has entered into a reseller partnership with NTT DATA, a global digital business and IT services leader. The partnership will expand the adoption of Rafay’s Kubernetes Operations Platform (KOP) in EMEA and APAC regions. Together, Rafay and NTT DATA will help enterprises significantly reduce the complexity, resource requirements and spiraling costs associated with do-it-yourself (DIY) Kubernetes to ensure the success of application modernization initiatives.

Rafay Systems, the leading platform provider for Kubernetes management and operations, today announced that it was recognized as a “Leader” and “Outperformer” in GigaOm’s 2023 Radar Report for Managed Kubernetes. Rafay’s leading position in the Innovator and Platform Play hemispheres highlights the company’s continued innovation and commitment to creating the most comprehensive, enterprise-grade platform to eliminate Kubernetes complexity. After an extensive review of managed Kubernetes solutions, Rafay achieved the highest scores possible for its architecture, flexibility, scalability, manageability and ease of use.

Rafay Systems, the leading platform provider for Kubernetes management and operations, announced today that it joined the Amazon Web Services (AWS) Service Ready Program for Amazon Elastic Compute Cloud (Amazon EC2) Spot Instances. This designation recognizes that the Rafay Kubernetes Operations Platform (KOP) – which simplifies the lifecycle management and centrally manages automation and governance of Kubernetes clusters and cloud-native applications across private data centers, public clouds and edge – has demonstrated successful support for Amazon EC2 Spot Instances.

Rafay Systems, a leading platform provider for Kubernetes Management and Operations, today announced the expansion of its work with Amazon Web Services (AWS) with native support for Amazon Elastic Kubernetes Service (Amazon EKS) Anywhere. With Rafay's Kubernetes Operations Platform (KOP), enterprises and service providers are able to leverage a single platform to provide automation and governance of Kubernetes operations across cloud (Amazon EKS) and datacenter (Amazon EKS Anywhere) environments. As a result, platform teams benefit from the same consistent, repeatable and easy-to-manage operational workflows for both Amazon EKS Anywhere and Amazon EKS clusters.

Today at AWS re:Invent, Rafay Systems, the leading platform provider for Kubernetes Management and Operations, launched its Cost Management Service, a new offering integrated into its Kubernetes Operations Platform (KOP) to deliver Kubernetes cloud cost optimization across clusters located in public clouds and on-premise data centers. With 94% of enterprises overspending in the cloud and a renewed focus on business efficiency in light of current economic conditions, platform and FinOps teams can rely on Rafay’s Cost Management Service to accurately view Kubernetes cloud spend with fine-grained visibility (showback) and allocation (chargeback) for both dedicated and shared clusters. The new service is fully integrated with the Rafay KOP, joining existing services for Multi-Cluster Management, GitOps for Kubernetes, Cluster Blueprints and Drift Detection, Zero-Trust Access, Service Mesh Management, Network Policy Management and others, making it the broadest Kubernetes management and operations solution in the market. Rafay will be available for demonstrations of the Cost Management Service in booth 1841 at AWS re:Invent.

Rafay Systems, the leading platform provider for Kubernetes management and operations, today at KubeCon + CloudNativeCon announced two new services – Service Mesh Manager and Network Policy Manager – that empower platform, developer and DevSecOps teams to centrally manage transport security and application traffic for cloud-native applications and Kubernetes clusters deployed across private data centers, public clouds and edge. Rafay will be available for demonstrations of the Service Mesh Manager and Network Policy Manager at booth S123 at the KubeCon + CloudNativeCon Expo.

Rafay Systems, the leading platform provider for Kubernetes Management and Operations, today announced the launch of the Rafay Technical Alliance Program. Driven by customer demand, the program accelerates the ongoing innovation effort between Rafay and strategic partners to deliver enhanced value to mutual customers.

Rafay Systems today announced an industry-first set of fleet automation and monitoring enhancements to its flagship Kubernetes Management Cloud (KMC). These enhancements expand the scope and scale of mission-critical Kubernetes (K8s) deployments across global enterprise environments, and include dashboards for global visibility of clusters spanning multiple operating environments, single-click upgrades for Amazon EKS and upstream Kubernetes clusters, and overrides for workloads and blueprints for multi-cluster deployments.

Rafay Systems today announced new enhancements to its flagship Kubernetes Management Cloud (KMC) that set a new standard in enterprise Kubernetes management for mission-critical applications. The updated capabilities include: Private datapath support for Zero-Trust Kubectl Access (ZTKA), cluster blueprinting for fleet management, application drift detection to protect against costly application downtimes due to misconfigurations, and infrastructure provisioning via GitOps for end-to-end deployment automation.