Prosimo emerged from
stealth to modernize application delivery for the multi-cloud world and
formally launched its Application eXperience Infrastructure (AXI) platform.
With the Prosimo AXI platform, cloud architects and security teams have
a single, vertically integrated infrastructure stack to deliver an
application experience that is exemplary, with embedded security.
Prosimo customers include Fortune 500 companies, tier-1 service
providers, and global partners.
The
company also announced $25 million in seed and Series A funding co-led
by General Catalyst and WRVI Capital with participation from Nepenthe
Capital. Dr. Steve Herrod, managing director at General Catalyst, and
Lip-Bu Tan, managing partner at WRVI Capital, have joined the board.
The
Prosimo leadership team has a history of start-up success, as
co-founders Ramesh Prabagaran (CEO) and Nehal Bhau (CTO) were part of
the founding team at Viptela and were subsequently responsible for
product and engineering respectively for the fast-growing SD-WAN
business at Cisco. Co-founders Linus Aranha and Pradeep Aragonda bring
deep technical and product expertise for the modern cloud stack.
Modern
applications are diverse, fragmented, highly distributed, and
increasingly becoming cloud native. They are also often spread across
various cloud providers and on-premises infrastructures creating a truly
multi-cloud environment. The enterprise workforce and customers alike
access applications from home, remote offices, customer sites, or on the
road. Additionally, applications and cloud services are now being
cross-connected to deliver new capabilities. The result is a subpar user
experience with major security gaps and, unfortunately, cloud
architects, operations, and security teams are under pressure to make
everything work without the tools to accurately measure and deliver the
required application experience.
Prosimo
is leveraging its venture capital backing to transform enterprise
infrastructure. Prosimo AXI is the first platform built to make
infrastructure transparent and secure. Traditional, siloed approaches
have become a losing proposition as networking, security, application
delivery, and observability cannot operate independently of each other
in the cloud. Through a vertically integrated stack, Prosimo handles
both user-to-app and app-to-app requirements, preventing multiple
fragmented initiatives in the cloud. One infrastructure stack handles
everything - provides secure access, app experience, real-time insights,
and quantified recommendations for multi-cloud. The Prosimo AXI
platform is powered by machine learning and works with the platform's
Application-driven Intelligent Results engine (AIR) and AXI Edge.
"Our
mission is to make infrastructure transparent and secure and to deliver
multi-cloud apps with the experience required at scale and controlled
by the customer," said Ramesh Prabagaran, co-founder and CEO of Prosimo.
"A new architecture will define how applications should be delivered,
especially from the cloud - we are set to lead this trend to help
enterprises meet the ever-changing needs of cloud applications. We are
humbled to see large enterprises validate our vision by taking steps to
modernize their stack."
The Prosimo SLA | A new way to measure success
In
addition to unveiling its new approach to modernizing the
infrastructure stack for cloud applications, Prosimo understands the
importance of creating a new way to measure success - the Prosimo
Service Level Agreement (SLA).
Prosimo
is focused on outcomes driven through SLAs and provides a per
application SLA that includes secure access and optimized connectivity
while managing cost. Customers have experienced:
- Up to 90% improvement in page load with improved app performance
- 99% reduction in attack surface with increased security
- Up to 60% savings in cloud spend
- Up to 90% reduction in deployment time
The
Prosimo AXI platform vertically integrates the infrastructure stack and
focuses on solving key problems for enterprise customers. Customers can
use the platform to:
- Accelerate
multi-cloud adoption by improving app experience by up to 90 percent in
less than five minutes. The apps run the gamut from web apps, R&D
suite, VDI, and data lakes to modern Kubernetes/service mesh, private
PaaS services (S3, block storage), etc.
- Enable
work from anywhere for the workforce and business partners, while still
providing the security and app experience they demand.
- Drive
application delivery modernization across multi-cloud and hybrid-cloud
environments, irrespective of the underlying type of application.
Prosimo
ends the all-too-common fragmented approach to the cloud for enterprise
customers. The platform provides the solution for multi-cloud
networking, Zero Trust with Identity Aware Proxy, app
micro-segmentation, access to lift-and-shift VMware on AWS, Azure or
GCP, app-infrastructure modernization for Kubernetes and service mesh
apps, and more.