<s>
is	O
an	O
Australian	O
infrastructure	B-General_Concept
as	I-General_Concept
a	I-General_Concept
service	I-General_Concept
provider	O
and	O
white-label	O
cloud	O
platform	O
.	O
</s>
<s>
Resellers	O
present	O
customers	O
with	O
a	O
rebranded	O
interface	O
for	O
deploying	O
virtual	B-Architecture
machine	I-Architecture
instances	O
,	O
which	O
are	O
only	O
billed	O
for	O
what	O
their	O
customers	O
use	O
.	O
</s>
<s>
Cloud	O
Harmony	O
benchmarked	O
the	O
OrionVM	B-General_Concept
Cloud	O
Platform	O
's	O
InfiniBand-backed	O
network	O
storage	B-General_Concept
as	O
the	O
world	O
's	O
fastest	O
in	O
2011	O
.	O
</s>
<s>
OrionVM	B-General_Concept
was	O
founded	O
in	O
a	O
dorm	O
by	O
Sheng	O
Yeo	O
,	O
</s>
<s>
For	O
his	O
work	O
at	O
OrionVM	B-General_Concept
,	O
CEO	O
Sheng	O
Yeo	O
was	O
nominated	O
for	O
the	O
2012	O
Australian	O
Entrepreneur	O
of	O
the	O
Year	O
and	O
the	O
2013	O
Ernst	O
&	O
Young	O
Entrepreneur	O
of	O
the	O
Year	O
.	O
</s>
<s>
In	O
2014	O
,	O
OrionVM	B-General_Concept
received	O
a	O
State	O
Merit	O
award	O
and	O
a	O
National	O
Finalist	O
nomination	O
in	O
the	O
2014	O
iAwards	O
,	O
with	O
CTO	O
Alex	O
Sharp	O
winning	O
the	O
Hills	O
YIA	O
Cloud	O
award	O
.	O
</s>
<s>
OrionVM	B-General_Concept
sells	O
a	O
wholesale	O
cloud	O
infrastructure	O
platform	O
for	O
public	O
,	O
private	O
and	O
hybrid	O
cloud	O
deployments	O
.	O
</s>
<s>
OrionVM	B-General_Concept
uses	O
the	O
Xen	B-Operating_System
hypervisor	I-Operating_System
to	O
virtualise	B-General_Concept
multiple	O
machines	B-Architecture
(	O
referred	O
to	O
as	O
"	O
instances	O
"	O
)	O
on	O
the	O
same	O
hardware	O
.	O
</s>
<s>
Linux	B-Application
instances	O
use	O
paravirtualisation	O
for	O
reduced	O
overhead	O
by	O
default	O
,	O
with	O
Windows	B-Device
Server	I-Device
being	O
deployed	O
using	O
hardware-assisted	O
virtualisation	B-General_Concept
(	O
HVM	O
)	O
.	O
</s>
<s>
Traditional	O
virtual	B-General_Concept
private	I-General_Concept
server	I-General_Concept
and	O
infrastructure	B-General_Concept
as	I-General_Concept
a	I-General_Concept
service	I-General_Concept
providers	O
consolidate	O
storage	B-General_Concept
into	O
a	O
storage	B-General_Concept
area	O
network	O
,	O
which	O
is	O
limited	O
by	O
Ethernet	O
network	O
speeds	O
and	O
best-effort	O
reliability	O
.	O
</s>
<s>
OrionVM	B-General_Concept
's	O
platform	O
took	O
design	O
cues	O
from	O
supercomputers	B-Architecture
by	O
placing	O
hypervisor	B-Operating_System
storage	B-General_Concept
and	O
compute	O
on	O
the	O
same	O
physical	B-Application
servers	I-Application
.	O
</s>
<s>
These	O
are	O
backed	O
by	O
a	O
decentralised	B-Operating_System
InfiniBand	B-Architecture
fabric	B-Architecture
.	O
</s>
<s>
To	O
end	O
users	O
,	O
the	O
base	O
of	O
the	O
platform	O
consists	O
of	O
a	O
web	B-Protocol
panel	I-Protocol
,	O
where	O
customers	O
are	O
able	O
to	O
deploy	O
virtual	B-Architecture
machines	I-Architecture
.	O
</s>
<s>
From	O
the	O
panel	O
,	O
users	O
can	O
deploy	O
preconfigured	O
instances	O
with	O
their	O
chosen	O
operating	B-General_Concept
system	I-General_Concept
and	O
required	O
memory	B-Architecture
.	O
</s>
<s>
Additional	O
storage	B-General_Concept
disks	I-General_Concept
and	O
IP	B-Protocol
addresses	I-Protocol
can	O
be	O
created	O
separately	O
,	O
then	O
assigned	O
to	O
new	O
or	O
existing	O
instances	O
.	O
</s>
<s>
After	O
shutting	O
down	O
,	O
further	O
resources	O
can	O
be	O
allocated	O
or	O
scaled	B-Operating_System
down	I-Operating_System
.	O
</s>
<s>
Instances	O
can	O
be	O
accessed	O
out-of-band	B-Application
via	O
a	O
web-based	O
serial	B-Device
console	I-Device
or	O
VNC	B-Protocol
session	O
.	O
</s>
<s>
Access	O
is	O
also	O
available	O
via	O
ovm_ctl	O
,	O
an	O
open	B-Application
source	I-Application
command	O
line	O
interface	O
available	O
from	O
GitHub	B-Application
and	O
the	O
pip	B-Application
package	I-Application
manager	I-Application
.	O
</s>
<s>
Linux	B-Application
machines	B-Architecture
come	O
preconfigured	O
with	O
SSH	B-Protocol
,	O
and	O
Windows	O
with	O
RDP	B-Protocol
for	O
remote	B-Protocol
access	I-Protocol
.	O
</s>
<s>
Vyatta	B-Protocol
templates	O
are	O
officially	O
supported	O
for	O
software-defined	O
logical	B-Architecture
networking	I-Architecture
between	O
instances	O
.	O
</s>
<s>
A	O
public	O
API	B-Application
exists	O
for	O
controlling	O
instances	O
.	O
</s>
<s>
Open	B-Application
source	I-Application
Python	B-Language
bindings	O
are	O
available	O
on	O
GitHub	B-Application
.	O
</s>
