Freedom to move
Hystax Platform keeps migration any-to-any, so a decision made today never blocks a better one tomorrow.
About Hystax
Three products, each built for one job: Hystax Platform for live cloud migration, disaster recovery and backup; OptScale for open-source FinOps and cloud cost optimization; OptScale AI for AI ROI and AI governance.
The Hystax story
Hystax was founded in 2016 in Sunnyvale, California, by a team of cloud engineers and entrepreneurs who set out to make infrastructure easy to move and hard to break. Every product since has answered the next question our customers asked: first how to move and protect workloads, then how to control what the cloud costs, and now how to measure and govern the AI their teams use.
Three products, one principle: companies should have full control over what they run, what it costs and what it does, from a single virtual machine to an autonomous AI agent.
The founding promise was simple: make clouds affordable and reliable. Our first product tackled the reliability half. Hystax Platform replicates workloads in the background while they keep running, lets teams rehearse a migration or failover as many times as they need, and completes the final cutover in minutes. Because it works between any source and any target, it became the tool of choice for enterprises leaving a locked-in platform and for managed service providers building migration, DRaaS and backup services for thousands of customers.
Today Platform has migrated more than 240,000 machines and protects more than 45,000 with disaster recovery and backup, including projects such as 5,000+ VMs moved between OpenStack platforms in around two months and 4,500+ VMs moved from VMware to Red Hat OpenStack.
Once workloads landed in the cloud, cost became the next problem. We built OptScale to give engineering and finance teams a shared view of what they spend on AWS, Azure, GCP, Alibaba Cloud and Kubernetes, and to turn that visibility into savings through rightsizing, reserved-capacity recommendations and cleanup of idle resources.
OptScale is published under the Apache 2.0 license on GitHub, and Hystax runs one of the largest FinOps communities in the industry.
The newest chapter moves beyond infrastructure. As teams adopt AI assistants, public and self-hosted models and autonomous agents, leadership faces questions no infrastructure tool can answer: what is AI spend actually producing, who is sending what to which model, and what are agents doing unsupervised? OptScale AI answers them. It joins every dollar of AI spend to the work teams actually deliver, cost per merged pull request, feature or ticket rather than per token, routes requests to the best-value model through a single gateway, screens every prompt for sensitive data, and keeps every agent within cost, time and recursion limits.
It is available as a cloud service or as an on-premises, air-gapped deployment, with content never leaving your environment.
Our vision
Every workload should be free to move between platforms without downtime or data loss. Every business should recover from an outage in minutes, not hours. Every dollar of cloud spend should be visible and justified. And every dollar of AI spend should be traceable to a delivered result, with every prompt and agent under control. That belief shapes what we build.
Hystax Platform keeps migration any-to-any, so a decision made today never blocks a better one tomorrow.
Disaster recovery and backup with RPO measured in seconds and near-zero RTO, cross-cloud, with immutable backups and ransomware detection.
OptScale makes cloud and Kubernetes costs transparent and attributable, and engages engineers, not just finance, in bringing them down.
OptScale AI ties AI spend to delivered outcomes, screens every prompt, and keeps every agent within limits, so adopting AI never means losing oversight of it.
OptScale is Apache 2.0 open source, and Hystax is a member of the OpenInfra Foundation and the Linux Foundation, because cost and governance tooling should be inspectable.
Multi-tenancy, white-labeling and a partner portal in Platform, and partner programs for OptScale and OptScale AI, so MSPs, CSPs and integrators can deliver these outcomes to their own customers.
What we build
Live cloud migration, disaster recovery and cloud backup
One platform to move workloads between any source and any target and to keep them protected afterwards, built for enterprises and for MSPs serving thousands of customers.
FinOps and cloud cost optimization
Open-source platform for cost visibility, budgets, anomaly alerts and optimization recommendations across AWS, Azure, GCP, Alibaba Cloud and Kubernetes.
AI ROI and AI governance
Ties AI spend to delivered outcomes, routes and compresses model traffic to cut costs, enforces guardrails and data-loss prevention inline, and keeps AI agents within limits.
Hystax at a glance
10+ years of production migrations, disaster recovery and cost control, with the memberships, audits and recognition to back it up.
Case studies
How Constructor Group migrated critical workloads from Google Cloud to Virtuozzo without downtime or data loss with Hystax Platform
How a global enterprise is migrating 10,000+ VMs from VMware to RHOSO with Hystax Platform, with hundreds already moved and full automation in place
How a global payroll enterprise successfully migrated 4,500+ VMs from VMware to Red Hat OpenStack Services on OpenShift with a secure and fully automated Hystax Platform