How Pi Datacenters Built a Sovereign Cloud Platform in India
StackOrbit helped Pi Datacenters deploy a scalable Apache CloudStack powered cloud platform, enabling enterprise and government cloud services with pay-as-you-go billing, monitoring, backup and reseller capabilities across India.
Customer Overview
Pi DATACENTERS is one of India's fastest growing data center and cloud infrastructure providers. Founded in 2014, the company built India's first Greenfield Uptime Institute Tier IV certified facility.
Pi Datacenters focuses on hyperscale colocation, cloud infrastructure and managed services with a strong emphasis on sovereign cloud infrastructure for enterprise and government workloads.
Business Objectives
Build Sovereign Cloud Platform
Deploy an open-source, vendor-independent cloud platform to serve enterprise and government workloads across India without infrastructure lock-in.
Reduce Infrastructure Costs
Eliminate high licensing costs from proprietary solutions and adopt open-source Apache CloudStack for cost-efficient cloud operations.
Enable Self-Service Cloud
Provide self-service provisioning and automation capabilities to reduce manual operational overhead and accelerate service delivery.
Monetize Cloud Services
Implement usage-based billing and chargeback capabilities to enable scalable cloud monetization for enterprise and government clients.
StackOrbit Solution
StackBill
Usage-based billing platform enabling pay-as-you-go monetization.
StackWatch
Infrastructure monitoring for clusters, VMs and capacity planning.
StackVault
Backup and disaster recovery services for enterprise workloads.
Reseller Platform
Multi-tenant reseller cloud platform for MSP partners.
Cloud Marketplace
One-click deployment of operating systems and enterprise applications.
StackOps
24/7 managed cloud operations and infrastructure management.
Infrastructure Architecture
Regions
1
Zones
2
Hypervisors
KVM / VMware / XCP-NG
Storage
Enterprise SAN + Local Storage
Deployment Time
3 Weeks
Services
Compute / Storage / Backup / DR
Results & Business Impact
By adopting StackOrbit CMP and Apache CloudStack, Pi Datacenters successfully transformed its virtualization environment into a scalable sovereign cloud platform capable of serving enterprise and government workloads while maintaining full control over infrastructure.
| Category | Before StackOrbit | After StackOrbit |
|---|---|---|
| Virtualization Platform | VMware dependent infrastructure with proprietary lock-in concerns | Open cloud platform powered by Apache CloudStack with full vendor flexibility |
| Infrastructure Cost | High licensing costs from proprietary HCI platforms and tools | Reduced infrastructure cost using open-source technologies and efficient resource utilization |
| Provisioning Model | Manual provisioning and operational overhead requiring extensive staff training | Self-service cloud provisioning with automation and IaC capabilities |
| Cloud Monetization | No integrated billing or chargeback platform; manual billing processes | Usage-based billing and chargeback with StackBill enabling granular cost tracking |
| Service Portfolio | Limited infrastructure services; primarily compute and storage | Elastic compute, storage-as-a-service, backup, DR, and managed services |
| Operational Model | Internal operations with limited cloud expertise and 24/5 support | 24/7 cloud operations managed with StackOps ensuring high availability |
| Cloud Market Expansion | Limited enterprise reach; no government cloud capabilities | Enterprise + government cloud offerings with compliance requirements met |
| Vendor Lock-in | Dependency on proprietary virtualization stack and vendor roadmaps | Vendor independent cloud infrastructure with multi-hypervisor support |
| Monitoring & Analytics | Limited visibility into infrastructure performance and capacity | Comprehensive monitoring with StackWatch for real-time insights and forecasting |
| Disaster Recovery | Manual backup processes with limited automation | Automated backup and DR services with StackVault for enterprise workloads |
Deployment Time
3 Weeks
Cloud Regions
1
Cloud Zones
2
Platform Capability
Gov + Enterprise Cloud
"Quick and easy to operate platform."
KVS Prakasa Rao, VP – IT Cloud and AI Operations, Pi Datacenters
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