Hystax
About
Hystax is a software company founded in 2016 that develops products for cloud migration, disaster recovery, backup, and cloud cost optimization. Their three main products are Hystax Platform (for live cloud migration and disaster recovery), OptScale (an open-source FinOps and cloud cost optimization platform), and OptScale AI (an AI governance and ROI platform). The company serves enterprises and managed service providers, having migrated over 240,000 machines and protected over 45,000 machines ...
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Ideal Customer
- Hystax explicitly targets SMBs, mid-market companies, and enterprises, as well as Managed Service Providers (MSPs), Cloud Service Providers (CSPs), and telecommunications companies who want to offer migration, DR, or FinOps capabilities to their own customers.
- For its OptScale FinOps platform, ideal customers are enterprises running significant multi-cloud or Kubernetes workloads on AWS, Azure, GCP, Alibaba Cloud, or hybrid infrastructure who want to engage engineering teams directly in cost optimization.
Key Differentiators
- Hystax's primary differentiator for its migration platform is its claim to be the only fully automated any-to-any live cloud migration solution supporting every major cloud and hypervisor platform — completing final cutovers in 1–3 minutes with no downtime and unlimited test migrations.
- For FinOps, OptScale is positioned as one of the first and only open-source FinOps platforms (Apache 2.0 license on GitHub with 2,200+ stars), which allows self-hosted, air-gapped deployment and full source-code transparency, a capability most proprietary competitors cannot match.
Industries Served
- Hystax serves a wide range of industries with no specific vertical exclusion; per its Red Hat Ecosystem Catalog listing, covered industries include automotive, communications/media/services, construction, education, energy, telecommunications, financial services, healthcare, and government.
- Named enterprise customers span global manufacturing and aerospace (Airbus), professional services (PwC), logistics (DHL), telecommunications (Nokia, NOS), fashion/retail (Yves Rocher), IT infrastructure (Canonical, Virtuozzo, Synology, IONOS), and the company has delivered telecom-sector migration projects such as migrating Indonesia's largest mobile telecom operator to Red Hat OpenStack.
Service Coverage
- Hystax operates globally, serving customers across more than 15 countries spanning North America, Europe, Asia, Africa, the Middle East, and South America.
- The company has employees distributed across four continents including Europe, North America, and Asia, with its headquarters at 1250 Borregas Avenue, Sunnyvale, California.
Partnerships
- Hystax maintains formal technology and go-to-market partnerships with Red Hat (listed in the Red Hat Ecosystem Catalog under Service & Integration and Software partner programs), VMware, Platform9, Mirantis, and CloudAk.
- It has joined the OpenInfra Foundation as a Silver Supporting Member and the Linux Foundation as a member.
Company Size & Ownership
- Hystax was founded in 2016 by co-founders Nick Smirnov (CEO) and Max Bozhenko (CTO) and currently has approximately 56 employees, reflecting year-over-year headcount growth of about 17%.
- Estimated annual revenue is under $5 million according to multiple data sources.
Compliance & Certifications
- Hystax's website prominently displays ISO compliance, AICPA SOC attestation, GDPR certification (Article 27 representation via Prighter), and an EU AI Act certificate of representation.
- The company is also a Stevie Award winner in the Cloud Storage and Backup Solution category.
Compiled from public sources by VenSearch · Last researched October 14, 2026
Offerings
5 offeringsHystax Platform — Cloud Migration
A fully automated any-to-any live cloud migration software that replicates workloads in the background while they continue running, supporting sources and targets including VMware, OpenStack, KVM, AWS, Azure, GCP, Alibaba Cloud, KubeVirt, OpenShift Virtualization, oVirt, OpenNebula, Virtuozzo, STACKIT, bare metal, and more. It supports unlimited test migrations, automated orchestration, and completes final cutovers within 1-3 minutes. The platform includes a multi-tenant partner portal for MSPs to manage all customer migration projects from a single pane of glass.
Hystax Platform — Disaster Recovery and Cloud Backup
A disaster recovery and backup solution that protects workloads across platforms including OpenStack, VMware, KVM, AWS, Azure, GCP, Alibaba Cloud, KubeVirt, Virtuozzo, oVirt, OpenNebula, and RHOSV. It offers agentless replication, low RPO measured in seconds, near-zero RTO, immutable backups, and ransomware detection. The platform can replicate OpenStack infrastructure settings such as tenants, subnets, and flavors and recreate them on a target OpenStack receiver.
OptScale
An open-source FinOps and cloud cost optimization platform published under the Apache 2.0 license that provides cost visibility, budgets, anomaly alerts, and optimization recommendations across AWS, Azure, GCP, Alibaba Cloud, and Kubernetes. It delivers rightsizing recommendations, reserved-capacity suggestions, idle-resource cleanup, TTL rules, and Slack alerts designed to engage engineering teams in cost management. OptScale is available on GitHub and is backed by one of the largest FinOps communities in the industry.
OptScale AI — AI Governance Platform
An AI ROI and governance platform that ties AI spend to delivered business outcomes such as cost per merged pull request, feature, or ticket rather than per token, and routes requests across public and self-hosted models through a single gateway to reduce costs. It enforces guardrails including prompt screening, PII redaction, and data-loss prevention inline, and keeps AI agents within cost, time, and recursion limits. It is available as a SaaS cloud service or as an on-premises, air-gapped deployment where content never leaves the customer environment.
OptScale for MSPs and CSPs
A partner-focused offering of the OptScale platform designed for managed service providers and cloud service providers to deliver FinOps and cloud cost optimization capabilities to their own customers. It includes multi-tenancy, white-labeling, and a partner portal. Partners can access the offering through a dedicated partner program.
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