Kazuhm Wins 2019 NAB Show Product of the Year Award

Next-Generation Workload Processing Platform Recognized for Achievements and Innovation in IT Networking/Infrastructure and Security

San Diego, CA – April 17, 2019—Kazuhm today announced that it received a Product of the Year award at the 2019 NAB Show—a program that aims to recognize the most significant and promising new products and technologies showcased by exhibitors. Kazuhm was specifically recognized in the IT Networking/Infrastructure and Security category.

Kazuhm is a workload processing platform that allows organizations to recapture existing IT resources and intelligently manage work across a fabric of desktops, data centers, cloud, and edge/Internet of Things (IoT). The intuitive user interface (UI) is easy to operate, helping to limit an organization’s dependence on IT support. Enterprise customers typically see such benefits as lower IT and cloud costs, enhanced security, improved performance, and reduction of latency by enabling the right work to be processed on the right resource for the right reason.

“Since our company’s inception, we’ve seen tremendous excitement and opportunity to apply our best-in-class solution to telecommunications, media and entertainment. These industries often require low-latency solutions for delivering entertainment services, or compute resource-heavy applications to support transcoding and rendering,” said Tim O’Neal, Kazuhm CEO. “Regardless of the use case, Kazuhm is well-equipped to meet companies’ growing needs in the space, as our secure, AI-enabled platform delivers optimal compute workload placement and processing across compute resources.”

Adds O’Neal, “We’re honored to be among the first class of technology providers to win an NAB Show Product of the Year award, and hope to harness the present momentum to serve this robust and evolving market.”

NAB Show Product of the Year award winners were selected by a panel of industry experts in 16 categories and announced at an awards ceremony and cocktail reception at the Westgate Las Vegas Resort on April 10. To be eligible for an award, nominated products and technologies needed to be on display at the 2019 NAB Show for the first time and available for delivery in calendar year 2019. Additional details can be found here.

“Nominees like Kazuhm are revolutionizing the way people experience media and entertainment,” said NAB Executive Vice President of Conventions and Business Operations, Chris Brown. “The 2019 NAB Show Product of the Year Awards highlight the best of what’s new at the premier launchpad for breakthroughs at the intersection of media, entertainment and technology.”

To learn more about Kazuhm, including its proprietary video transcoding application, which debuted at NAB this year, please visit www.Kazuhm.com.

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Kazuhm Named a 2019 “Cool Company” by San Diego Venture Group

First-of-its-Kind Workload Processing Platform Joins 32 of the Fastest Growing, Most Exciting Startups in Southern California

San Diego, CA – April 2, 2019—Kazuhm, a next-generation workload processing platform, today announced that it has been recognized as one of only 33 “Cool Companies” for 2019 by San Diego Venture Group. Kazuhm won out amongst more than 250 applicants.

San Diego Venture Group (SDVG) promotes the formation, funding, and development of innovative new ventures in the San Diego community. SDVG’s Cool Companies list highlights the fastest-growing, most exciting startups in Southern California.

“We are grateful for this recognition from San Diego Venture Group,” said Kazuhm CEO Tim O’Neal. “We are proud to call ourselves a member of the San Diego startup community, which we strongly feel is one of the most active, thriving and important startup communities in the United States today.”

Launched in October of 2018, Kazuhm is a commercial-grade distributed computing workload processing platform that empowers organizations to maximize all compute resources across desktop, server, and cloud, all the way to the Edge. The platform enables organizations to recapture and use all existing compute nodes to process containerized workloads, saving IT costs and enhancing performance and security. Its desktop recapturing technology is used by organizations across telecom, healthcare, retail, financial services, higher education and more.

“We were happy to name Kazuhm a 2019 Cool Company,” said SDVG President Mike Krenn. “One of the reasons why we love doing the annual ‘Cool Companies’ list is because it shows how the extremely diverse San Diego tech ecosystem is now a hotbed for all kinds of innovation, in an array of key areas.”

This news comes on the heels of Kazuhm’s recent announcement that it has joined the NVIDIA Inception Program. Inception nurtures dedicated and exceptional startups who are revolutionizing industries with advances in AI and data science.

Kazuhm was also recently named an official nominee in the first-ever NAB Show “Product of the Year” Awards. NAB Show is the world’s largest event focused on the intersection of technology, media, and entertainment. Kazuhm will be exhibiting at NAB (N2739 – The Startup Loft) from Saturday, April 6 through Thursday, April 11.

This year’s Cool Companies event will be on April 30, at the Belly Up Tavern in Solana Beach, and will give participants, like Kazuhm, an opportunity to meet with more than 60 venture capital firms and 20 local investors.

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Kazuhm Joins NVIDIA Inception Program

Next-Generation Workload Processing Platform to Receive Industry-leading GPU Tools, Technology and Deep Learning Expertise to Catalyze Business Growth and Success

SAN DIEGO—March 5, 2019—Kazuhm™, the next-generation workload processing platform, today announced it has joined the NVIDIA Inception program, a virtual accelerator program that is designed to nurture startups during critical stages of product development, prototyping and deployment, to revolutionize industries with advancements in artificial intelligence (AI) and data science.

Kazuhm is a first-of-its-kind, commercial-grade distributed computing workload platform that empowers organizations to maximize all compute resources across desktop, server, and cloud, all the way to the edge. Its technology enables enterprises across industries—including telecom, healthcare, retail, financial services, higher education and more—to efficiently recapture unused processing power to boost productivity, minimize unnecessary IT investment and improve security.

As a member of Inception, Kazuhm will strengthen its deep learning expertise through powerful graphics processing unit (GPU) tools, hardware grants and best-in-class training in neutral-network machine learning applications, among other benefits.

“Through Kazuhm’s collective industry acumen and our proprietary research, we know the demand for compute resources is growing, and is primarily driven by increases across the Internet of Things (IoT)/edge, and AI and machine learning projects,” said Tim O’Neal, CEO of Kazuhm. “To meet this need head-on, we recognize the value in working alongside industry pioneers, like NVIDIA through its Inception program, to improve our insights and access to game-changing technology and resources. Ultimately, we know this will benefit of our customers and our growth trajectory.”

Kazuhm recently announced the results of its 2019 IT Industry Outlook Report, which surveyed IT professionals’ current and anticipated workload processing and usage habits, sentiments and predictions for the year.

Kazuhm will be presenting a Tech Talk at NVIDIA’s GPU Technology Conference in Silicon Valley on March 18-21, 2019. Attendees are also encouraged to stop by Kazuhm’s booth during the show (booth #334).

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Kazuhm Announces Results of 2019 IT Industry Outlook Report

Survey Analyzed IT Professionals’ Current and Anticipated Workload Processing and Usage Habits, Sentiments and Predictions for This Year

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SAN DIEGO – Feb. 19, 2019 – Kazuhm™, the next generation workload processing platform, today released the findings of 2019 IT Industry Outlook report. More than 540 IT professionals—including Chief Information Officers (CIO), Chief Technology Officers (CTO), IT systems administrators, IT systems analysts, IT managers, IT directors, and purchasing managers—participated in the survey, which explored cloud and container usage; sentiment relative to security in the public cloud; and percentage of on-premise hardware that operates in idle mode after-hours, among other topics.

Key takeaways derived from the report include:

Compute Resource Demand

The demand for compute resources is growing, driven primarily by increases to IoT/Edge (60 percent) and AI/ML projects (56 percent)
To meet this resource demand, 86 percent of organizations plan to expand use of the cloud; 75 percent plan to increase production work using containers; 27 percent plan to purchase new desktops to increase capacity; and 43 percent plan to purchase new servers to increase capacity

Public Cloud

47 percent of respondents said more than 50 percent of their production work is done using the public cloud
86 percent expect their use of public cloud for production work to increase in 2019
Only 42 percent feel confident their work done in the public cloud is completely secure

Container Usage

73 percent of respondents said that greater than 25 percent of their production work is containerized, and 75 percent expect their use of containers to increase in 2019

Idle Hardware

80 percent said greater than 25 percent of their desktops and laptops are idle or powered off at night; 32 percent said that greater than 75 percent of their desktops or laptops are idle or powered off at night
Nearly three-quarters of respondents said that their in-house or co-located servers are greater than 25 percent idle at night

“Kazuhm was founded on the notion that we could help companies in any industry discover and exploit existing compute nodes within organizations. Underlying this mission is a desire to simplify and streamline the increasingly complex IT landscape,” said Tim O’Neal, CEO of Kazuhm. “Armed with the insights we gleaned from this survey, we not only have a better understanding of the challenges facing IT professionals today, but we can more intelligently engineer the Kazuhm platform to meet the changing needs of this audience tomorrow—whether it’s helping to prioritize a secure environment for workload processing or designing new solutions that complement cloud and containerized workloads.”

The full results of Kazuhm’s 2019 IT Industry Outlook report are available at https://www.kazuhm.com/2019-it-industry-opinion-survey-results.

The survey was commission through Qualtrics and ran from Nov. 28, 2019 through Dec. 12, 2018.

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2019 IT Industry Opinion Survey

This report highlights important findings uncovered during Kazuhm’s December 2018 survey of IT industry professionals as they offered opinions on their outlook towards their challenges and expectations for 2019.

Survey Overview

During the fourth quarter of 2018, the Kazuhm team saw a rapid increase in compute workload processing demand as a result of growth in compute resource-intensive applications involving the massive growth in data received via the Internet of Things (IoT) and the application of that data to Artificial Intelligence (AI) initiatives. We launched our IT professionals survey to find out how IT professionals are coping with this increased demand and the following blog post is a summary of the results of that survey. Key findings include:

Among several IT initiatives cited, 60% of respondents said they were planning edge computing/IoT initiatives in 2019; 56% said they were planning AI/ML initiatives in 2019.
86% said they planned to increase use of the public cloud, yet only 42% were confident their data was safe in the public cloud.
75% said they would increase their use of containers in 2019.
27% said they would purchase new laptops/desktops to increase capacity.
43% said they would purchase new servers to increase capacity.

More Data-Driven Applications Mean More Demand for Compute Resources

The majority of respondents report that their companies will launch IoT/Edge computing initiatives during 2019. Likewise, the majority of respondents report their companies will launch artificial intelligence or machine learning initiatives.

This holds true when responses are broken down by company size. Only the smallest companies (50 employees or less) have a majority of respondents reporting they are NOT planning AI or IoT initiatives this year. Companies with between 1000 and 5000 employees had the largest percentages reporting plans for IoT and AI initiatives at 68% and 70% respectively.

These initiatives drive demand for compute resources. Respondents reported plans to meet this demand in several ways: 86% reported they plan to increase work done in the public cloud and 75% reported they will increase containerization of workloads. The most popular container technology among respondents is Docker, with just over 30% saying they use Docker containers to process production workloads. In addition, 83% said they plan to purchase new laptops and desktops with 27% reporting they will do so to increase capacity. 70% of respondents said they will purchase new servers with 43% reporting they will do so to increase capacity.

Are companies using all their current capacity?

While companies are planning to increase capacity through purchases, much of their current capacity has significant idle time. Laptops and desktops spend nights and weekends powered off while servers operate under capacity. Most respondents estimate that at least 50% of their laptops and desktops are idle or powered off during nights and weekends. More than 70% reported their servers are idle more than 25% of the time on nights and weekends.

So not only is there new capacity being purchased, but there is already capacity within most organizations today that is currently unused/underused and can be tapped for use as companies ramp up for their new, AI/ML or IoT/Edge initiatives, saving significantly on public cloud costs.

A desktop that is 80% idle, for example, equates to a $1000 value, as compared to the equivalent AWS EC2 and Google Compute Engine cost, when recaptured for container-based workloads. The same is true for underused server resources. For example, where such a server is 40% idle, it can be given a $1000+ value when that underutilized capacity is recaptured for new digital workloads. The value of recapturing unused/underused resources scales very quickly for the typical numbers of desktops and servers in most organizations.

Security

Keeping data secure is often cited as a top concern of IT professionals and the respondents in this survey are no different. As noted above, the majority plan to increase their work in the public cloud, but at the same time, public cloud security remains a concern.

58% of respondents are not confident their data is secure in the public cloud. Security concerns can be mitigated using an IT resource recapture strategy that keeps your data in-house on your own laptops and servers.

Conclusion

As IT professionals prepare their organizations for the demands of IoT/Edge computing and AI/ML initiatives, cost, performance, and security are top of mind. Cloud computing is doubtlessly an enabler, but while many prepare to increase their IT spending in the cloud, concerns remain regarding data security. Workload containerization combined with the recapture of underused resources offers a secure, performant, cost-effective alternative. Given the levels of IT resources, including desktops and servers that have unused/underused capacity, IT professionals have the opportunity to build a thoughtful strategy around the rollout of data-heavy applications where they choose the right resource for the right reason.

Download the sharable infographic here.

Kazuhm 2019 IT Industry Outlook Infographic

Survey Methodology

The survey was built and conducted using the Qualtrics platform. Responses were 100% anonymous and were received from more than 540 IT professionals—including Chief Information Officers (CIO), Chief Technology Officers (CTO), IT systems administrators, IT systems analysts, IT managers, IT directors, and purchasing managers across a wide array of sectors. Opinions were collected over a 2 week period ending in December 2018.

About Kazuhm

Kazuhm is a next generation workload optimization platform that empowers companies to maximize all compute resources from desktop to server, to cloud. Founded with a belief that organizations have become too dependent on cloud computing while disregarding the untapped resources that already exist within their organizations today, Kazuhm securely and efficiently recaptures unused processing power to boost productivity and minimize unnecessary IT investment. As the first fully-connected, commercial grade compute ecosystem, it allows organizations worldwide to process workloads at a fraction of the cost. Global IT managers and leaders have adopted Kazuhm’s easy, centralized install process that puts resource control back into their hands. Learn more at www.kazuhm.com or sign up for your Free Trial today!

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TechRadar Highlights the Future of Cloud Computing

What will the future of cloud computing look like as we enter 2019? Changes are afoot in the world of cloud computing and journalists and editors are starting to take note. Cloud computing has been the darling of the media for the last several years supported by the meteoric rise of services like AWS, Google Cloud, and Amazon’s Azure. As this market begins to mature and the hype cycle begins to level off, weaknesses of cloud offerings become more apparent and complementary or alternative solutions will begin to take hold. Common issues with cloud computing include security, vendor lock-in, rising cloud costs, and poor performance. For example, according to Kazuhm’s recent survey of more than 500 IT professionals across sectors, while many plan to increase their use of the public cloud, only 42% feel their work done in the public cloud is completely secure. In 2019 customers will begin to demand solutions to these issues which will open up opportunities for new companies and/or products to enter the market. What’s more, the advent of the cloud and cloud native applications are driving changes in the demand and availability of IT skills from the system admin level all the way to the CIO.

In the linked article, Kazuhm CEO Tim O’Neal answers TechRadar’s questions and shares his vision of The Future of Cloud Computing in 2019. Topics such as how to maximize your compute resources including cloud and also on premises servers and desktops, the top mistakes companies make when moving to the cloud, which workloads may not be well-suited to the cloud, the IT talent gap associated with the rise of the cloud and more are explored in this article. The article makes a good read for those purchasing IT resources, planning 2019 cloud migrations, or simply staying current on IT career planning.

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Analytics Ventures Launches Kazuhm™ for Next Generation Workload Optimization

The First-of-its-Kind Commercial-Grade Platform Recaptures Desktop, Server and Cloud Compute Resources to Optimize Operations and Improve Security at a Fraction of the Cost

Kazuhm Builds Community Around Cloud Alternative Resources at www.GetYourHeadOutOfTheCloud.com

SAN DIEGO – Oct. 16, 2018 – Analytics Ventures, a fund dedicated to creating and building venture companies that harness the power of artificial intelligence technologies, today announced a new addition to its venture portfolio: Kazuhm™, a commercial-grade distributed computing workload platform that empowers organizations to maximize all compute resources—from desktop, to server, to cloud—thereby saving time and money, while improving security. Currently compatible across Windows and Linux operating systems, Kazuhm offers simple, central installation to securely and efficiently recapture unused processing power to boost productivity and minimize unnecessary IT investment.

The IT industry has always been driven by a need to innovate. While that approach has undoubtedly served the market well, in recent years it has also led many organizations to overlook opportunity right under their nose, in this case, amongst their on-premise hardware. This has created a scenario whereby systems and technology managers, and their C-suite counterparts, have critically underutilized hardware. Rather than fully tapping into available on-premise resources, they have invested time and money in cloud computing and storage, frequently compromising data and system security.

“Today, cloud costs are soaring, demand for high-performance computing (HPC) is increasing and there are more security risks than ever,” said Tim O’Neal, CEO of Kazuhm. “Against this backdrop, tensions between IT teams and other members within their organization who depend on workloads have reached an all-time high due to processing bottlenecks. The answer is not always investing in more, newer cloud resources. The answer is using the available computer resources more efficiently. The answer is Kazuhm.”

Kazuhm helps companies across sectors discover and exploit existing compute nodes within their organizations. Specifically, Kazuhm addresses the following three problems that most commonly plague IT personnel today:

Out-of-control Cloud Costs—According to Gartner and Goldman Sachs, cloud computing costs are expected to reach $72 billion in 2019. Kazuhm allows users to harness their own internal compute resources to process workloads instead of sending them to the cloud, thereby reducing cloud costs.
Heightened Demand for HPC—Thanks to the advent of artificial intelligence and expansion of the Internet of Things (IoT), the HPC server market is forecast to grow from $12.4 billion this year, to nearly $20 billion in 2022. Kazuhm helps organizations minimize incremental spend by enabling them to make the most of their on-premise compute assets to efficiently process HPC workloads.
Increased Security Risk in the Cloud—Cybersecurity Insiders reports that 91 percent of companies are concerned about cloud security, and 18 percent have identified a cloud security incident in the last 12 months. Because Kazuhm enables data to be processed on an organization’s own desktops and servers within their own facility, data, and valuable IP never leave the premises and are therefore more secure.

“Distributed computing in heterogeneous environments, and leveraging unused computer assets isn’t necessarily new, but the technology has finally caught up and is well within the means of implementation thanks to commercial organizations like Kazuhm,” said Reed Anderson, CTO, True Digital. “We’re currently using Kazuhm for transcoding, which allows us, as a mobile provider, to personalize screen resolution and experience for consumers based on whether they’re using Wi-Fi, mobile or broadband. This process can take a lot of time, so being able to tap the unused processing power of idle machines across our physical assets and data centers is a significant competitive advantage. It allows us to save time and money over alternative solutions such as a dedicated system or the cloud.”

The fully-connected compute ecosystem activated by Kazuhm puts control back in the hands of IT managers and leaders. Easily and centrally installed, it allows organizations worldwide to process workloads at a fraction of the cost, with increased agility and higher security.

“In the next two years, enterprise organizations are expected to move half their public cloud applications to a private cloud or non-cloud environment, meaning there is an inherent and immediate gap in the market that Kazuhm can fill seamlessly,” said Navid Alipour, managing partner, Analytics Ventures. “We’re confident that Kazuhm, as our most recent venture launch, will change the way workloads are processed forever. We believe we’re on the cusp of something monumental, as we help IT leaders ‘take charge’ of their compute resources in unprecedented ways.”

Kazuhm can be implemented across any number and type of corporate nodes into an organization’s on-premise hardware infrastructure in an easy and centralized manner. Organizations interested in using Kazuhm may visit https://www.kazuhm.com to learn more.

Founded on the belief that the application of cloud computing has become out of control, Kazuhm considers its mission to create awareness in the IT community that it is time to become smarter how the cloud is being used as a function of the entire compute ecosystem. As such, Kazuhm has also launched an industry platform called GetYourHeadOutofTheCloud.com to help educate and bring together IT professionals for healthy discussions about all topics related to a more balanced utilization of cloud computing. Users have the ability to join the “Cloud Busters,” a group of IT experts becoming active for the cause.

About Kazuhm

Kazuhm is a next generation workload optimization platform that empowers companies to maximize all compute resources from desktop to server, to cloud. Founded with a belief that organizations have become too dependent on cloud computing, while disregarding the untapped resources that already exist within their organizations today, Kazuhm securely and efficiently recaptures unused processing power to boost productivity and minimize unnecessary IT investment. As the first fully-connected, commercial grade compute ecosystem, it allows organizations worldwide to process workloads at a fraction of the cost. Global IT managers and leaders have adopted Kazuhm’s easy, centralized install process that puts resource control back into their hands. Learn more at www.kazuhm.com.

About Analytics Ventures

Analytics Ventures is a venture studio fund providing front-to-end infrastructure to ideate, form, launch and fund brand new companies in artificial intelligence (AI). With its own in-house AI lab, technology, back-office, and marketing setup, Analytics Ventures takes companies from formation to public launch in as little as six months. Supported by a large network of corporate and academic partnerships, as well as other venture funds, Analytics Ventures has launched leading AI ventures ranging from financial services, to healthcare, advertising and more. To learn more about Analytics Ventures, visit www.analytics-ventures.com.