How Zesty Aims to Solve the Challenges of Managing Cloud Infrastructure

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The wave of clouds has been on the rise for a while now. According to Palo Alto Networks, nearly 70% of organizations currently host more than half of their workloads in the cloud, and overall adoption has grown by 25% over the past year.

One of the main reasons for rapid cloud adoption is the ability to reduce IT infrastructure costs. In the cloud, IT managers and development teams can easily size IT resources to their unique business needs and reduce unnecessary expenses. The advantage is significant, especially for someone coming from an on-premises infrastructure, but it also remains tainted with some shortcomings.

Essentially, more often than not, teams are stuck with static cloud infrastructure, like discount program commitments or allocated storage volumes. This forces them to struggle to keep resources aligned with the fast pace of the modern business environment, which ultimately affects application performance.

"Devops engineers are stuck in the middle; they try to adapt this dynamic reality to a rigid infrastructure. They face limitations such as reduction program commitments, predefined storage volume capacity, processor and RAM, not all of which can be continuously adjusted to meet changing demands,” said Maxim Melamedov, CEO and co-founder of Israel-based Zesty. 'engineering lost trying to manually forecast and adjust cloud infrastructure, as well as billions of dollars wasted every year."

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Founded in 2019, Zesty minimizes the constant hassle of manually managing resources by providing a suite of tools that automate cloud resource optimization tasks. The company announced today that it has raised $75 million in a Series B funding round led by B Capital and Sapphire Ventures.

"Zesty breaks the inefficient cycle with a dynamic cloud infrastructure. This new way of working with infra enables customers to automatically scale cloud resources to optimally meet application demand at all times and immediately adapt to any change as it happens,” Melamedov said. infrastructure setup."

The company offers offerings for compute, block storage, and Kubernetes. It automatically manages and scales disk space by shrinking and growing storage volumes based on real-time application needs. This eliminates the need for over-provisioning and can reduce storage costs by up to 70%, while preventing the risk of service degradation and system failure.

“Zesty also enables enterprises to take advantage of the cost-saving potential of AWS Reserved Instances by automating the buying and selling of Reserved Instances and adjusting EC2 (elastic cloud) commitments in real time,” Melamedov said. "This saves an average of 50% off On-Demand Instance prices."

The offer has been requested by hundreds of companies since its launch, including Heap, Firebolt, Singular, Gong, Grubhub, Yotpo, Monday and Wiz. Heap, in particular, was able to use Zesty to increase their Reserved Instance coverage to 95% and save over $1 million per year.

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