There are many companies out there looking at how to reduce your cloud bills by eliminating waste, or finding more cost effective ways of doing the same job. Xonai, an early stage startup is taking a different approach to cloud cost reduction.
It’s looking at ways to make your data software run more efficiently, and thereby reduce the cost of your overall workload, starting with Apache Spark. It plans to support other packages over time. Today, the company announced a $3.5 million seed investment.
“We are helping organizations that need to scale data- and AI-driven products to reduce cost, and accelerate time to value,” company co-founder and CTO Leandro Vaz told TechCrunch.
The company has chosen to focus on these data and AI products because by their nature, they require scaling of cloud resources in proportion to the business growth in order to maintain the quality of service. While Vaz couldn’t share customer names, or the ...
