Rafay and Netris Partner to Speed Consumption and Monetization for GPU Clouds
Partnership Enables Rapid Self-Service Compute Consumption in the AI Era
SUNNYVALE, Calif. – March 12, 2025 – Rafay Systems, a pioneer in delivering Platform-as-a-Service (PaaS) capabilities for self-service compute consumption, and Netris, a leader in networking automation, abstraction, and multi-tenancy for AI and cloud operators, today announced a strategic partnership aimed at transforming GPU cloud infrastructure for enterprises racing to establish AI capabilities and applications.
Together, Rafay and Netris help accelerate consumption and monetization of GPU-based infrastructure by offering self-service workflows for model training, fine-tuning and inferencing use cases. This allows GPU cloud providers to transform raw GPU hardware into fully operational, enterprise-ready cloud platforms with comprehensive self-service capabilities in weeks — dramatically reducing the time-to-market and eliminating the complexity of building AI infrastructure.
GPU Cloud Market Challenges
Billions of dollars are being invested in high-performance GPU infrastructure — the market is expected to grow to $1.4 trillion by 2034. However, the current cloud offerings often lack essential self-service and multi-tenancy features to enable sharing of infrastructure across multiple tenants. These capabilities are fundamental to launching and operating a cloud service and are a top developer productivity priority for 44% of enterprises.
Building on lessons learned by leading cloud service providers, including Amazon Web Services, Microsoft Azure and Google Cloud Platform over the past decade, GPU cloud providers must prioritize self-service compute consumption to succeed. Without effective self-service workflows and appropriate infrastructure automation to support dynamic multi-tenancy, AI infrastructure adoption stalls, making meaningful return on investment difficult to achieve.
“Many first-generation GPU clouds still require human-driven backend processes to meet customer needs,” said Haseeb Budhani, CEO and co-founder of Rafay Systems. “Our partnership with Netris removes the traditional barriers of manual provisioning across the software and hardware layers of the AI infrastructure stack, allowing enterprises to instantly access and utilize GPU resources without the error-prone, human-in-the-loop processes that result in a less-than-ideal experience for consumers of AI infrastructure.”
“Big Three cloud providers invested a decade of top talent’s time to develop the proprietary software for infrastructure automation and multi-tenancy that enables their cloud offerings. Netris has built the same for everyone else covering the networking piece, while Rafay did the same for the compute piece,” said Alex Saroyan, CEO and co-founder of Netris. “Rafay and Netris together become a perfect turnkey solution for new and upcoming generations of GPU-based AI cloud providers.”
Rafay and Netris Bring Self-Service and Network Scalability to GPU Clouds
By combining Rafay’s enterprise-grade workflow management, virtualization and substrate management (also known as soft tenancy) with Netris’ advanced network lifecycle automation, abstraction and multi-tenancy (also known as hard tenancy), the partnership creates secure, isolated computing environments where multiple enterprises can leverage shared GPU cloud infrastructure without compromising performance, security or data privacy.
GPU cloud providers are empowered with the following benefits:
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- Self-service consumption for developers and data scientists: Create customizable GPU/CPU packages and give developers and data scientists on-demand access to compute and AI applications with enterprise-grade security controls
- Multi-tenant infrastructure: Deploy secure, isolated environments with virtual cluster capabilities, network segmentation and policy enforcement for multiple enterprise customers
- Programmatic SKU management: Dynamically define and offer infrastructure packages tailored to market needs, from small training environments to large-scale inference deployments
- Integrated billing and chargeback: Access real-time usage data for seamless billing integration and financial visibility to maximize ROI on GPU investments
- End-to-end network automation: Configure networking layers automatically with built-in NVIDIA best practices to ensure hardware-level multi-tenancy, performance and scalability
- Guidance and support: Rafay and Netris each have more than six years of extensive experience supporting cloud service providers worldwide based on NVIDIA and other technologies
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The Rafay and Netris partnership benefits are now generally available to customers.
Additional Resources
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- Learn more about the partnership on the Rafay blog or on the Netris blog
- For enterprises looking to provide a CSP-like experience, connect with Netris and Rafay
- Follow Rafay on X and LinkedIn
- Follow Netris on X and LinkedIn
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About Rafay Systems
Rafay’s mission is to liberate enterprises from the pains and complexities of consuming modern compute infrastructure, allowing them to channel 100% of their developers’ focus into innovation. Companies such as MoneyGram and Guardant Health entrust Rafay to be the cornerstone of their modern infrastructure strategy and AI architecture. With Rafay, platform teams at these companies enable developers and data scientists to access compute and AI resources in record time, complete with essential guardrails for security and governance. Gartner has recognized Rafay as a Cool Vendor in Container Management and GigaOm named Rafay as a Leader and Outperformer in the GigaOm Radar Report for Managed Kubernetes, acknowledging our commitment to driving innovation. To join the ranks of industry leaders who have unlocked the true potential of cloud-native computing with Rafay Systems, please visit www.rafay.co.
About Netris
Netris is a leading software vendor for network automation, abstraction, and multi-tenancy for AI and Cloud Infrastructure operators. Netris’s technology is trusted by world-class GPU-based AI infrastructure operators, public cloud providers, governments, and enterprises in the United States and globally. For more information, visit www.netris.io.
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