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Younes Amar,
VP of Product
VP of Product
“It would have taken us a year to be fully operational with a cloud-based solution if we built it ourselves. With Replicated, we were able to be up and running in less than a month.”
Company Size:
40
Industry:
Machine Learning
Challenge
One of Wallaroo’s core differentiators was to allow customers to continue using their preferred model development tools and then deploy into any destination environment. Wallaroo however didn't have a simple way of deploying this software to customer-controlled environments without an extreme amount of support from their internal teams. As a seed-stage company, Wallaroo knew that to properly grow and scale, they would have to figure out a way to operationalize the delivery of their software to a multitude of customer environments.
As Younes Amar, Head of Product at Wallaroo, recalls, "We needed to simplify the process of installing Wallaroo into different customer environments. It was important to allow our customers, data scientists and ML engineers, to realize the value of our product without dealing with the complexity of installing it or integrating it in their environment."
Another critical concern for Wallaroo was building a community edition of their platform that data scientists could use for free while evaluating if the platform was robust enough for their demands. A community edition would go a long way towards building trust among their prospective users and demonstrate the value that Wallaroo’s platform delivered.
This, however, would have to wait. Wallaroo couldn't devote valuable resources towards a community edition until they had a simple, scalable solution for deployment and support.
As Younes Amar, Head of Product at Wallaroo, recalls, "We needed to simplify the process of installing Wallaroo into different customer environments. It was important to allow our customers, data scientists and ML engineers, to realize the value of our product without dealing with the complexity of installing it or integrating it in their environment."
Another critical concern for Wallaroo was building a community edition of their platform that data scientists could use for free while evaluating if the platform was robust enough for their demands. A community edition would go a long way towards building trust among their prospective users and demonstrate the value that Wallaroo’s platform delivered.
This, however, would have to wait. Wallaroo couldn't devote valuable resources towards a community edition until they had a simple, scalable solution for deployment and support.
“The way I would quantify the return on investment with Replicated was that we could double our product development velocity without running into scale inefficiencies or problems when it comes to delivering our products to customers”
Younes Amar,
VP of Product
VP of Product
Solution
Wallaroo's search for a solution led them to Replicated, a Kubernetes application delivery and management platform.
First on the docket was figuring out a way to deploy Wallaroo's platform to any environment that their customers requested. Replicated delivered in spades on that front. The first significant benefit that Wallaroo noticed after partnering with Replicated was an accelerated time to market. Wallaroo had estimated that getting a cloud-based solution out to customers would have taken them a year's worth of work to build in-house. With Replicated, that time was drastically reduced."
Based on our own estimations, it would have taken us a year to be fully operational with a cloud-based solution if we built it ourselves. With Replicated, we were able to be up and running in less than a month," recalls Younes. "Having Replicated take care of all the complexities, management, and licensing helped us be focused solely on delivering our product."
Replicated's partnership allowed for an extraordinarily augmented approach to getting their platform into customer environments. It also granted Wallaroo's engineering team the ability to speed up product development by removing the need to focus on a cloud-based installer.
Finally, Wallaroo could focus their attention back on offering a community edition to build trust and foster a sense of transparency and openness to the AI/ML community. Thankfully, they were able to leverage Replicated to assist in this endeavor.
First on the docket was figuring out a way to deploy Wallaroo's platform to any environment that their customers requested. Replicated delivered in spades on that front. The first significant benefit that Wallaroo noticed after partnering with Replicated was an accelerated time to market. Wallaroo had estimated that getting a cloud-based solution out to customers would have taken them a year's worth of work to build in-house. With Replicated, that time was drastically reduced."
Based on our own estimations, it would have taken us a year to be fully operational with a cloud-based solution if we built it ourselves. With Replicated, we were able to be up and running in less than a month," recalls Younes. "Having Replicated take care of all the complexities, management, and licensing helped us be focused solely on delivering our product."
Replicated's partnership allowed for an extraordinarily augmented approach to getting their platform into customer environments. It also granted Wallaroo's engineering team the ability to speed up product development by removing the need to focus on a cloud-based installer.
Finally, Wallaroo could focus their attention back on offering a community edition to build trust and foster a sense of transparency and openness to the AI/ML community. Thankfully, they were able to leverage Replicated to assist in this endeavor.
Less than 30 days to be fully operational in all cloud platforms
$25M Series A since utilizing Replicated’s managed solution
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