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They orchestrate containers. We orchestrate compute.

They orchestrate containers. We orchestrate compute.

Only Orion delivers GPU orchestration, VM management, VMware migration, and air-gapped deployment — from one compute plane, without a cloud dependency baked into the architecture.

Only Orion delivers GPU orchestration, VM management, VMware migration, and air-gapped deployment — from one compute plane, without a cloud dependency baked into the architecture.

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The gap

The tools exist. The delivery doesn't.

The tools exist. The delivery doesn't.

Layer 1 — The infrastructure

Compute exists. Kubernetes makes it easier to manage.

Layer 2 — The tooling

Kubernetes tools exist — Rancher, OpenShift, Tanzu make clusters easier to run.

Layer 3 — The gap

What about the actual workloads? What about the engineer who doesn't want to touch YAML? Nobody bridges the gap between cluster administrator and end user. That's what Orion does.

Orion capabilities

What Orion does that no one else does

GPU orchestration

Native NVIDIA, AMD, and Intel GPU operators with time slicing, MIG, and vGPU — configured through a UI, not YAML

VM management

KubeVirt-powered Windows and Linux VM orchestration on the same cluster as containers — no separate hypervisor stack

Multi-cloud support

AWS, GCP, Azure, on-prem, bare metal — orchestrate across all of them from one unified compute plane without rewriting pipelines. If an AWS region goes down, Orion provides immediate failover to another provider. If a cloud raises prices, you have a path out. Deploy the same way on everything and you always have options.

VMware migration path

Run VMs alongside containers during transition. No forced rip-and-replace — migrate workloads at your own pace while keeping existing operations running

Cost optimization

GPU time slicing, topology-aware scheduling, and ephemeral workloads that tear down automatically — driving utilization up and idle waste down

Air-gapped / on-prem native

Runs fully disconnected with zero external dependencies — licensing, telemetry, and orchestration all operate within your perimeter

No vendor lock-in

Installs as a Helm chart on any CNCF-conformant Kubernetes distribution. No proprietary operators, no custom resource definitions that trap you

Bare metal orchestration

Schedule containerized and virtualized workloads directly on bare metal nodes — no cloud layer required, no abstraction tax on performance

Zero YAML administration

Researchers and artists provision workloads through a browser — no Kubernetes knowledge required. Admins configure once, users self-serve from then on.

Competitive Landscape

No funded competitor delivers all eight.

VMware migration + GPU intelligence + air-gapped deployment — in one compute plane. No one else does all three.

OrionOur platform
GPU / CPU Slicing
✓Native
Air-Gapped / Disconnected
✓Native, no call-home
Deployment Time
<90 seconds
Team Size Needed
1–2 engineers
Vendor Lock-in
None
Runs on any infrastructure
VMware Tanzu

Post-Broadcom pricing makes it unaffordable for most enterprises — and migration is now urgent.

SUSE Rancher

No GPU intelligence — built for a pre-AI infrastructure world. Containers only.

Red Hat OpenShift

Locks you into RHEL CoreOS. Complexity requires 3–5 dedicated engineers just to maintain it.

Orion

Hardware agnostic. GPU-native. Air-gapped. Runs on any CPU, GPU, or bare metal. No proprietary hardware requirements.

† Cost estimates based on publicly available vendor pricing as of Q1 2025. Actual pricing varies by configuration and contract terms. Air-gap capability available across platforms; effort to implement varies significantly by architecture.

How Orion compares

Why each category of competitor misses the same thing.

Why each category of competitor misses the same thing.

They optimize one layer — containers, VMs, or cloud spend — but none of them own the substrate underneath. When you need GPUs, VMs, and bare metal in the same cluster, they hand the problem back to you.

They optimize one layer — containers, VMs, or cloud spend — but none of them own the substrate underneath. When you need GPUs, VMs, and bare metal in the same cluster, they hand the problem back to you.

K8s-only tools (Cast AI, ScaleOps)

Strong for container-heavy cloud cost optimization — no VM support, no VMware migration path. Air-gap is technically supported, but reaching full functionality in a disconnected environment requires significant infrastructure lift to pull everything into the network.

VM platforms (VMware Tanzu)

Handles VMs well but doesn't orchestrate containers and GPUs together on the same cluster. And Broadcom's pricing changes have made it increasingly expensive for organizations who just want to run workloads.

Cloud-first platforms (OpenShift, Spectro)

Air-gapped deployments are technically possible but require significant setup and ongoing maintenance — the architecture is cloud-first. Full functionality in truly disconnected environments involves considerable lift and shift that most teams underestimate.

Hyperscalers (AWS Outposts, Azure Arc)

Tools like Azure Arc and AWS Outposts make it easier to stay, not easier to leave. They bring the cloud to your data center — you still need connectivity, still pay egress, still need an AWS or Azure account as the management backbone. That's not on-premises, it's cloud with hardware.

The clock

vSphere 8 end-of-life: October 2027.

vSphere 8 end-of-life: October 2027.

Broadcom's pricing changes have hit VMware customers with increases of 150% to 10×+ on renewals. vSphere 8 reaches end-of-life in October 2027. If your team is still on vSphere 7 — it's already out of support.

Broadcom's pricing changes have hit VMware customers with increases of 150% to 10×+ on renewals. vSphere 8 reaches end-of-life in October 2027. If your team is still on vSphere 7 — it's already out of support.

Orion provides a migration path without rip-and-replace. Run VMs alongside containers during transition, migrate at your own pace. If you're still negotiating with Broadcom, Orion gives you a credible path out — and that changes the conversation.

Orion provides a migration path without rip-and-replace. Run VMs alongside containers during transition, migrate at your own pace. If you're still negotiating with Broadcom, Orion gives you a credible path out — and that changes the conversation.

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In production

What choosing Orion looks like in production.

What choosing Orion looks like in production.

Donald Strubler

Head of Technology, R3D Studios

"Orion shifted our focus from finding stability to using the stability to iterate."

~40%

Compute cost reduction

60 sec

User request to workload running

Zero

Critical failures since deployment

Tell us what you're running today.

We'll tell you honestly whether Orion is the right fit. Most teams are surprised how quickly they can run a proof of concept on their own infrastructure.

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