Nebulon

About Nebulon

Nebulon was established in 2018 by a team of four seasoned executives from 3PAR: David Scott, who serves as Executive Chairman; Siamak Nazari, the CEO; Sean Etaati, the CTO; and Craig Nunes, the COO. Their collective background at 3PAR, a pioneering storage company acquired by Hewlett Packard Enterprise (HPE) for $2.4 billion in 2010, provided a deep understanding of enterprise storage needs and the market's shift toward cloud-like operational models. This experience directly shaped Nebulon's mission to deliver the public cloud experience to on-premises infrastructure.

The company operates in the on-premises cloud infrastructure and data management market, offering a solution that combines hardware and a Software-as-a-Service (SaaS) subscription model. Its target clients are enterprises looking to modernize their data centers, from the core to the edge, for applications that are containerized, virtualized, or run on bare metal. Nebulon's business model involves selling subscriptions for its cloud management service and integrated hardware, which are sold through OEM partners like HPE and Supermicro. This approach aims to reduce the total cost of ownership for its clients by eliminating the need for expensive storage arrays and simplifying infrastructure management.

Nebulon's core offering is its smartInfrastructure platform, which is comprised of two main components. The first is the Nebulon Services Processing Unit (SPU), a PCIe-based card embedded in application servers that offloads storage and data services, freeing up server CPU and memory resources. This SPU connects to the server's internal SSDs, transforming them into a shared storage pool with enterprise-class features like deduplication, compression, encryption, and mirroring. The second component is Nebulon ON, an AI-assisted, cloud-based control plane that provides centralized management, monitoring, and automation for the entire on-premises infrastructure through a single API and web interface. This architecture provides a separate failure domain for data services, enhancing resilience, and allows for fleet-wide management of servers and storage from the cloud. Additionally, Nebulon offers advanced security features like TripLine, a threat detection service that uses machine learning to identify cryptographic ransomware attacks and enable rapid recovery.