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Our mission

At FuturFusion, we’re here to provide you with the best Enterprise-grade Open Source private cloud solution.

Our team of world class experts will assist you from designing your architecture, to deploying it, to integrating with your existing software stack and then supporting it 24/7 365 days a year.

Our solution

Overview

FuturFusion Cloud is a turn-key open-source private cloud solution.

It’s based on the Incus hypervisor , providing you with a very modern hypervisor, capable of running a mix of virtual machines, application containers and system containers across clusters of servers.

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It supports a variety of storage options, from existing Fiber Channel, NVMEoTCP or iSCSI SANs, to local storage or even software defined storage through Ceph.

On the networking front, you can either rely on traditional physical networking (dedicated interfaces, VLANs, …) or go for software defined networking with OVN.

It’s strongly focused on modern cloud operations, with infrastructure as code tooling front and center. It provides a robust REST API as well as integration with common tooling like Terraform and Ansible.

But there is more than just the hypervisor itself, FuturFusion Cloud is made of 3 core components:

  • FuturFusion Cloud - Hypervisor OS
  • FuturFusion Cloud - Operations Center
  • FuturFusion Cloud - Migration Manager

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FuturFusion Cloud provides you with an easy to manage, highly available, open source based private cloud.

Hypervisor OS

The Hypervisor OS is our own minimal Linux based operating system. It comes with just what’s needed to get Incus and related services up and running.

To keep it secure and easy to manage, the OS image is completely immutable, gets provisioned centrally and is managed through an API. Local storage is TPM encrypted and the entire boot sequence and system integrity is TPM measured.

Concretely this provides you with:

  • A very small OS image that can easily be written to any server
  • Central provisioning and updates through the Operations Center
  • Trusted environment (Secure Boot, TPM encrypted storage & measured boot)
  • Reliable updates (A/B update mechanism, automated roll-back on failure)

Operations Center

The Operations Center is your central overview of your FuturFusion Cloud deployment.

It fulfills four main roles:

  • Acts as the registration point for all servers running the Hypervisor OS
  • Handles update tracking and rollout across the entire cloud
  • Provisions new Incus clusters
  • Keeps track of resources across all clusters

Most cloud users will interact with the Operations Center to track their own cloud usage and see what workloads they have on what cluster.

The operations center is designed with security in mind, it only holds the minimum amount of permissions needed to perform its job and isn’t capable of directly controlling any of the clusters that it tracks.

Migration Manager

The Migration Manager is how you’ll be migrating your existing workloads over to our cloud.

It’s a central appliance which on one hand connects to a source cloud platform (currently VMWare vCenter Server) and on the other, connects to a set of Incus clusters.

Once connected, it will maintain an inventory of all instances on the source cloud, allow the user to annotate those, perform some test migrations and handle scheduling of all migrations across defined time slots.

Incremental data transfer is supported to limit the amount of downtime during a migration and post-migration tasks such as injecting missing drivers, re-configuring storage, … will be performed automatically based on the detected OS.

On the networking side of things, it supports pulling and replicating detailed network configurations as well as setting up tunnels so that instances can be moved without needing re-addressing.

Our team

Meet the founders
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    Mal Casey (CEO)
    Veteran in sales and pre-sales team leader.
    25+ years of experience at RedHat, Cisco, VMWare, AWS and Canonical.

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    Stéphane Graber (CTO)
    Maintainer of Incus and leader of the Linux Containers project .
    20+ years of open source contributions and experience.

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    Ton Hofhuis (COO)
    Veteran in sales and pre-sales management but started as a developer.
    25+ years of experience at ING, IBM, VMware, Zcaler, Netskope and Canonical.

The rest of the team

The entire FuturFusion team works remotely from home.
We currently have staff in over 8 countries providing us with full timezone coverage.

Our team is composed of:

  • Software engineers

    • Development of FuturFusion Cloud components
    • Work on extending and improving Incus
    • Contribute to the other Open Source projects we rely on
  • Professional services specialists

    • Project management
    • Customer analysis
    • Solution deployment
    • Trainings
    • Migration planning
  • Support engineers

    • Triage support requests
    • L1 through L3 support
    • 24/7 365 days a year coverage

Legal

FuturFusion.io LLC is registered in the state of Texas, USA.

Corporate address is:

FuturFusion.io LLC
551 S INTERSTATE 35
Suite 300
Round Rock, TX 78664-2820
United States of America