CPlane

About CPlane

CPLANE.ai, established in 2013 by co-founders Brandon Williams and John Casey, operates at the intersection of cloud computing and industrial automation. Initially founded as CPLANE Networks, the company rebranded to CPLANE.ai to reflect its focus on intelligent system orchestration. The firm is headquartered in San Carlos, California, and targets a clientele of telecommunications companies, cloud service providers, and large enterprises.

The company's foundation is built upon the extensive experience of its founders. Brandon Williams, the CEO, brings a diverse background that includes service as a U.S. Air Force fighter pilot and business leadership, which informs the company's approach to managing complex, high-stakes environments. John Casey, the CTO, contributes over two decades of deep technology leadership in software architecture for the telecom, enterprise, and government sectors, including past roles at IBM and Narus, Inc. This combined expertise underpins CPLANE.ai's mission to bridge the gap between information technology (IT) and operational technology (OT).

CPLANE.ai's core offering is a software orchestration platform designed to automate and unify the management of distributed digital infrastructure. This platform addresses the complexity of modern IT environments by creating a single, integrated cloud that can span private data centers and public clouds. The technology simplifies the deployment, monitoring, failure recovery, and evolution of these hybrid systems. Its service portfolio includes a cloud orchestration platform for multi-site and multi-tenant cloud management and Software-Defined Networking (SDN) solutions that provide virtual cloud networking and automated WAN provisioning. This enables clients to manage security, networking, virtualization, and applications as a cohesive whole, which is particularly critical for managing large-scale Industrial Internet of Things (IIoT) deployments.

A significant milestone for CPLANE.ai was its collaboration with ExxonMobil to accelerate the development of digital infrastructure orchestration for industrial automation systems. This pilot project demonstrated how orchestration could simplify the management of multi-vendor industrial control systems, improving both security and reliability by converging IT and OT systems. The company was also selected by PCCW Global, an international telecommunications provider, to deliver distributed cloud offerings, showcasing its capability in the telecom sector.