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About Hystax

Hystax software moves and protects workloads, controls cloud costs and governs AI

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.

Three products: Hystax Platform for migration and protection, OptScale for cloud cost, OptScale AI for AI governance Hystax Platform Move and protect workloads on any platform VMware On-premises OpenStack Any cloud Platform migration, DR, backup OptScale Optimize cloud spend, open source -34% avg. cloud cost savings OptScale AI Prove AI ROI and govern every prompt and agent Prompt Agent AI gateway Model cost per merged PR, not per token
  • 2016
    founded in Sunnyvale, California
  • 240K+
    machines migrated with Hystax Platform
  • 45K+
    machines protected with disaster recovery and backup
  • 1–3 min
    average cutover during a migration

The Hystax story

From infrastructure to AI, one question at a time

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.

  1. 2016 onwards

    Hystax Platform Live cloud migration, cross-cloud disaster recovery and cloud backup

    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.

    • VMware
    • Hyper-V
    • Nutanix
    • KVM
    • OpenStack
    • KubeVirt
    • OpenShift Virtualization
    • Proxmox
    • oVirt
    • OpenNebula
    • Virtuozzo
    • CloudStack
    • Bare metal
    • AWS
    • Azure
    • Google Cloud
    • Alibaba Cloud
  2. Next

    OptScale Open-source FinOps and cloud cost optimization

    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.

  3. Now

    OptScale AI AI ROI and AI Governance platform

    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

Control over what you run, what it costs and what it does

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.

Freedom to move

Hystax Platform keeps migration any-to-any, so a decision made today never blocks a better one tomorrow.

Resilience by default

Disaster recovery and backup with RPO measured in seconds and near-zero RTO, cross-cloud, with immutable backups and ransomware detection.

Cloud spend under control

OptScale makes cloud and Kubernetes costs transparent and attributable, and engages engineers, not just finance, in bringing them down.

AI you can measure and trust

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.

Open by default

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.

Built for partners

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

Three products, one platform mindset

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Hystax Platform

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.

  • Any-to-any replication with agent-based and agentless options
  • Unlimited test migrations, 1–3 minute cutovers
  • RPO in seconds, near-zero RTO, immutable backups
  • Multi-tenant partner portal, white-labeling, full RESTful API

OptScale

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.

  • Apache 2.0 license, source on GitHub
  • Rightsizing, reserved-capacity and idle-resource recommendations
  • Budgets, TTL rules and Slack alerts that engage engineers

OptScale AI

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.

  • Cost per merged pull request, feature and team, not per token
  • Single gateway across public and self-hosted models and MCP servers
  • Prompt screening, PII redaction, audit-ready evidence
  • SaaS or on-premises, including air-gapped

Hystax at a glance

The essentials

10+ years of production migrations, disaster recovery and cost control, with the memberships, audits and recognition to back it up.

  • Founded2016
  • HeadquartersSunnyvale, California
  • ProductsHystax Platform, OptScale, OptScale AI
  • Open sourceOptScale, Apache 2.0 on GitHub
  • MembershipsOpenInfra Foundation, Linux Foundation
  • ComplianceISO, SOC, GDPR, EU AI Act representation
  • RecognitionStevie® Award, Cloud Storage and Backup
  • Contact[email protected]

Meet some of our customers

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