CloudBolt Software, a recognized leader in hybrid cloud management and Kubernetes optimization, is offering a no-cost edition of its cloud management platform, CloudBolt CMP, alongside introducing a redesigned user experience.
Teams can now run the full platform on up to 100 resources (any cloud object the platform manages including VMs, storage, clusters, databases, and networks) in their own environment, for free, according to the company.
CloudBolt CMP unifies control across public, private, and hybrid clouds, giving teams a single platform with consistent governance, visibility, and cost management wherever workloads run.
“Engineers don't evaluate software by talking to a sales rep; they evaluate it by trying it on real infrastructure in an environment that reflects their reality. The difficulty of securing budget before you even know what a product can do is what limits most users from trying new tools,” said Yasmin Rajabi, chief operating officer at CloudBolt. “We’d rather earn the right to a conversation and let the product set the first impression.”
The redesign of CMP lowers the barrier for teams that are not deep automation experts to quickly get value out of the box. A rebuilt interface modernizes CMP in a more intuitive way, and its natural-language interface, built on the Model Context Protocol that CloudBolt introduced earlier this year, offers a robust governance layer for AI-driven infrastructure work, inside the platform’s existing permissions and controls, the company said.
“I’ve spent a decade building CMP for the people who run large hybrid cloud estates. It’s a deep platform, and that depth came with a learning curve; you had to understand a lot of it before you could do much,” said Alexandre “Auggy” da Rocha, co-founder at CloudBolt. “The redesign and the natural-language interface take that requirement away. The permissions, guardrails, and workflows underneath are exactly the same. You just don’t have to know where everything lives to use them.”
The free edition is NOT a stripped-down version of CMP. Teams get the same core capabilities available to enterprise customers, including:
- Self-service provisioning
- Governance and role-based access
- Full resource lifecycle orchestration
- Natural-language interface
The difference is the number of resources a team can manage, so a team can prove the platform on real work and build the business case before committing. A team weighing a move off VMware, or evaluating OpenShift, can put CloudBolt CMP to work as part of that decision.
CMP’s redesigned interface and free edition are available now.
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