Karios CORE
The Foundation for Enterprise Digital Infrastructure Management
Karios CORE: The Foundation for Enterprise Digital Infrastructure Management
In today’s fast-paced digital landscape, enterprises need infrastructure that’s not just powerful, but also simple, secure, and sustainable.
Karios Core delivers exactly that, a platform built on battle-tested open-source technologies, refined for the demands of modern IT.
The platform provides a single intelligent dashboard that integrates existing datacenter systems, enabling real-time monitoring, automated virtual machine and Kubernetes provisioning, DCIM, out-of-band access, vulnerability scanning, and disaster recovery, all in one unified system.
It is the central intelligence layer of the Karios ecosystem, an AI-driven, software-defined platform that unifies compute, storage, networking, power, and environmental management into a single control plane.
Unlike legacy solutions limited to vendor-specific hardware or single hypervisors, Karios Core is hardware-agnostic, OS-integrated, and energy-optimized, designed to deliver the highest levels of operational efficiency and visibility across any infrastructure.
The Foundation of Karios
Karios Core is built on a strong foundation of proven open source technologies, enabling a modern, transparent, and highly adaptable infrastructure platform. By leveraging widely adopted open standards and community-driven software, Karios Core delivers enterprise-grade virtualization, container orchestration, networking, storage, and security capabilities without proprietary lock-in.
This open architecture accelerates innovation, allows rapid integration with existing tools and ecosystems, and provides customers with full visibility and control over their infrastructure stack. As a result, organizations benefit from long-term flexibility, reduced total cost of ownership, and a platform that evolves in step with global open source advancements rather than vendor-imposed roadmaps.
Integrated OS & Hypervisor
No fragmented components, storage, networking, and virtualization talk fluently, reducing complexity and boosting speed.
Enterprise-Ready Storage
ZFS delivers snapshots, cloning, encryption, caching, and rollbacks right out of the box, perfect for data-intensive workloads
Rock-Solid Networking
Our high-performance TCP/IP stack powers software-defined networking (SDN) that has been stress-tested in the world’s most demanding, high-stakes environments.
Edge Over Competitors
Compared to legacy virtualization technologies, Karios Core delivers a fully integrated, open, and automation-driven platform that eliminates proprietary lock-in while dramatically reducing operational complexity, cost, and energy consumption.
Our Enhancements
We’ve taken open source technologies further, engineering additions that address real-world pain points. The result? A unified platform that’s quick to deploy, easy to manage, and future-proof for AI-driven datacenters.
Key enhancements include:
Automated Provisioning & Asset Management
Broad Hardware Compatibility
Streamlined Workflows
Built-In Security
Unified Compute
Smart Power Optimization
Better Visibility
And much more
These aren't add-ons, they're baked in, making Karios CORE adaptable
for everything from core data centers to IoT edge networks.
Why It Matters: Simpler, Smarter Infrastructure for Your Business
Traditional virtualization often means trade-offs: complexity for features, cost for scale, or security for speed. Karios CORE flips the script. By enhancing open-source roots with automation, AI insights, and efficiency tools, we deliver:
Faster Time-to-Value
Deploy apps in minutes, not days.
Lower Costs
Predictable per-socket pricing and reduced ops overhead slash TCO.
Ironclad Security & Scalability
From datacenters to edge, stay compliant and agile.
Sustainability Focus
Optimize power without sacrificing performance.
In a world of vendor lock-in and rising energy bills, Karios empowers IT leaders to build resilient, green infrastructure that grows with your business.
How Karios CORE Stacks Up: A Clear Comparison
This is how Karios CORE compares to leading alternatives:
| Functional Category | Capability Description | Karios Advantage vs Competitors |
|---|---|---|
| Hardware & Platform Agnosticism | Supports any x86 or ARM-based hardware, across Dell, HP, Lenovo, Supermicro, Cisco UCS, and even whitebox servers. Works across virtualization stacks and OS distributions. | Eliminates vendor lock-in. VMware, Nutanix, and Proxmox are tied to specific hardware or require licensing for compatibility. |
| Zero-Touch Provisioning (ZTP) | Fully automated discovery and provisioning of physical and virtual assets using AI-driven workflows. No manual setup required. | Drastically reduces deployment time from days/weeks to minutes. Competitors rely on manual or scripted deployment. |
| Integrated DCIM (Data Center Infrastructure Management) | Native visibility into racks, power feeds, cooling, sensors, and compute utilization via an AI-augmented DCIM engine. | Combines DCIM and virtualization management with one interface while competitors require separate tools. |
| Out-of-Band (OOB) Management | Direct integration with BMC, IPMI, vPro, Redfish, OpenBMC, PiKVM for full remote hardware access even if OS is offline. | Provides firmware-level control without third-party tools or external consoles. |
| Bare-Metal Provisioning | Automatically installs and configures hypervisors or OS images directly on discovered hardware nodes. | Eliminates the need for PXE scripting or manual imaging — fully automated. |
| Virtualization & Orchestration | Built-in hypervisor supporting full virtualization, containerization, and Kubernetes orchestration. | Native Kubernetes and VM orchestration with no external orchestrator or licensing needed. |
| Storage & Filesystem Flexibility | Supports ZFS, MooseFS, and SeaweedFS (and many more) for object, block, and file storage with replication, deduplication, and compression. | Multi-filesystem native support while competitors are limited to proprietary or single-stack storage. |
| Disaster Recovery & Backup | Client-server model with incremental encrypted backups, snapshot management, and geo-redundant recovery. | Built-in DR; no need for additional software like Veeam or Rubrik. |
| Data Protection & Sovereignty | Encryption at rest and in transit, integrated compliance audit reports, and data residency controls for data sovereignty laws. | Built-in data governance tools; competitors rely on third-party modules. |
| AI-Driven Vulnerability Scanning & Remediation | Firmware and OS-level vulnerability scanning, patch recommendation, and automated remediation tracking. | Unique hypervisor-level security visibility not offered by VMware, Nutanix, or Proxmox. |
| Power & Energy Management | Integrates with Karios PowerLink to monitor and optimize power usage from the grid to individual nodes. Calculates PUE, CUE, WUE metrics. | Enables up to 55% energy cost reduction and full sustainability reporting an industry first. |
| Thermal & Cooling Management | Integrated rack/tank cooling visibility, thermal telemetry, and proactive power throttling. | Native cooling integration is at the hypervisor level while competitors do not support this. |
| AI-Based Analytics & Predictive Maintenance | Continuously learns system behavior, predicts hardware failures, and recommends corrective actions. | Continuously learns system behavior, predicts hardware failures, and recommends corrective actions. |
| Security & Compliance Auditing | Automatic generation of compliance reports for NITDA, ISO 27001, and energy audit frameworks (LEED, ESG). | Native compliance engine eliminates separate audit software. |
| Software-Defined Networking (SDN) | Integrated SDN layer allowing virtual LANs, micro-segmentation, and multi-site fabric extension. | Enables multi-site and edge interconnectivity without additional network controllers. |
| IoT and Sensor Integration | Natively integrates with IoT devices via Redfish, and custom APIs for smart infrastructure use cases. | Enables use cases for surveillance, agriculture, energy monitoring, and smart city integration. |
| Edge and Remote Operations | Seamlessly extends to Karios Cube micro-modular datacenters for rural or off-grid deployments. | Unified management between datacenter and edge, unique in the industry. |
| Automation & Orchestration | Cross-layer automation for provisioning, patching, backups, and recovery. | Reduces human intervention and human error. |
| Multi-Tenant & Role-Based Access Control | Supports multiple organizational units, tenants, and granular roles for government, education, or industry segmentation. | Secure administrative control for public sector environments. |
| Energy Efficiency & Sustainability | Real-time tracking of power usage, carbon footprint, and LEED metrics. Integrates with renewable power systems (solar, hybrid). | Promotes sustainable IT operations and reduces environmental impact. |
| Unified Dashboard & API Integration | Single-pane-of-glass dashboard with RESTful APIs for third-party integration (ERP, NMS, government systems). | Centralized visibility across compute, storage, and power layers — competitors require separate platforms. |
Karios shines in efficiency and openness, avoiding the pitfalls of
bloated stacks while delivering enterprise polish.
What Sets Karios Apart: Your Path to Future-Ready Infrastructure
Karios isn’t just another infrastructure player, we’re redefining it for a modern world.
Lean & Powerful
Open source technologies for unmatched speed and utilization.
Integrated by Design
Kubernetes, virtual machines, vulnerability scanning and remediation, bare-metal provisioning, OOB access as standard, and much more, with no extras needed.
Efficiency First
From datacenters to edge, stay compliant and agile.
Operations Simplified
AI powered automation cuts admin time, unlocking agility and savings.
Built for Tomorrow
API-driven, IoT-ready, and edge-focused to outpace legacy vendors.