Cycle Named in the 2024 Gartner® Cool Vendors™ In Container Management Research

We are thrilled to announce that Cycle was named a Cool Vendor™ in the 2024 Gartner® Cool Vendors™ in Container Management research. For Gartner clients, you can find the full research here.

“When we started Cycle a decade ago, we knew it would be a constant battle in the war of functionality versus simplicity. While it's a challenge to build a platform that has all the features organizations want, it's even more difficult to accomplish that functionality without introducing extra complexity. With this, we're proud to be recognized in the 2024 Gartner® Cool Vendors™ in Container Management research.” - Jake Warner, CEO of Cycle.io.

New to Cycle?

Cycle.io is the leading LowOps platform built to simplify both container orchestration and infrastructure management. Established as a true alternative to Kubernetes, Cycle has enabled hundreds of organizations to simplify, and automate, the processes around application deployments and scaling -- without sacrificing on capabilities.

Additionally, Cycle's hybrid SaaS/PaaS-model empowers organizations to maintain full ownership of their infrastructure, data, and networks, while still receiving automatic updates and new features. At a time when the average Kubernetes cluster is 27 months out of date, it's clear why roughly 60% of Cycle's clients are organizations who migrated away from Kubernetes.

What Makes Us A Cool Vendor?

From the start, our team has been focused on a radical commitment to simplicity, which led us to build our platform from the ground up. Over the years, as many platforms have leaned into increasing complexity, we've remained firm in our belief that infrastructure management and container orchestration shouldn't be an uphill battle.

Our LowOps approach equips users with powerful, versatile building blocks while minimizing the usual pitfalls of complexity. With our “return to the primitives” mindset, Cycle offers companies the same functionality as our competitors but with less moving parts, and thus complexity, in the process. This empowers teams to avoid technical debt and reduce mistakes due to misconfigurations.

Here's How Cycle.io Brings LowOps to Life:

• Automatic Updates - From the OS and kernel patches up to the underlying orchestration software, Cycle removes the headaches of on-going maintenance, enabling teams to focus on building versus upkeep.
• Bring Your Own Infrastructure (BYOI) - Whether you're deploying to the hyperscalers like AWS and GCP, utilizing colocation / on-premise bare metal, or a mixture of both, Cycle offers organizations flexibility without sacrificing ownership.
• Multi-Tenancy / High-Density Compute - Cycle is designed to pool raw compute resources into Private Cloud-like clusters. On top of these clusters, teams can create isolated environments which act like Virtual Private Clouds (VPCs) enabling teams to achieve cost savings through better resource utilization.
• Integrated Observability - Monitor your infrastructure, containers, and more, all from one platform. Cycle's portal makes it easy to track the health, and availability, of your applications regardless of where they're running.

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Gartner®, Cool Vendors™ in Container Management, Dennis Smith, Tony Iams, Lucas Albuquerque, 1 October 2024

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