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Why Gartner IOCS Matters: The Center of Gravity for Modern I&O
Rafay is pleased to announce its participation at the Gartner IT Infrastructure, Operations & Cloud Strategies Conference 2025 in Las Vegas. As organizations accelerate their adoption of cloud-native platforms and AI-driven workloads,Gartner IOCS has become the defining venue for leaders seeking clarity, direction, and practical strategies for the future of modern I&O.
Where the Industry Is Headed: The Ops Model Is Breaking Faster Than Hardware
Across industries, cloud-native systems and AI workloads are expanding far faster than the operational models designed to support them. Analysts observing this shift note a consistent pattern: enterprises, telcos, sovereign operators, and service providers are scaling distributed Kubernetes environments, hybrid and sovereign cloud deployments, and accelerated CPU/GPU compute estates. Yet their operational tooling lags behind.
The hardware is not failing, but the operating model is. Infrastructure remains underutilized or fragmented, automation becomes brittle, and teams rely on inconsistent workflows that no longer match the speed or complexity of today’s applications. This widening operational gap is emerging as one of the central challenges facing modern I&O teams.
Why Rafay Is Sponsoring: Real Conversations Move the Industry Forward
Rafay values direct, in-person engagement with the teams living these challenges daily. Gartner IOCS brings together the leaders most affected by growing operational drag: platform engineering teams supporting multi-environment Kubernetes estates, operators maintaining hybrid cloud consistency, and organizations struggling to deliver environments such as clusters, namespaces, VMs, or AI workspaces at the pace the business demands.
By meeting these teams face-to-face, Rafay aims to better understand their friction points, exchange insights, and contribute to the broader conversation about evolving infrastructure from manual delivery to platform-driven consumption.
Rafay’s Perspective: A Platform Operating Model for the Hybrid and AI Era
The Rafay Platform is designed to address the operational slowdown created by fragmented, multi-environment infrastructure. The platform provides the orchestration and automation layer that transforms heterogeneous compute into a secure, governed, self-service platform. Rather than growing operational headcount or relying on scattered tooling, platform teams use Rafay to define policies, guardrails, blueprints, and curated service catalogs.
Application developers, data scientists, and engineering teams then consume CPU and GPU resources, Kubernetes environments, and AI/ML workspaces instantly, without ticket queues or inconsistent provisioning paths.
This enables a pivotal shift: infrastructure ceases to be a collection of manually delivered projects and becomes a consistent, productized platform accessible across the organization.
The Operational Impact: Consistency Everywhere, Chaos Nowhere
With Rafay, modern workloads such as containerized apps, microservices, AI training jobs, inference services, data pipelines, all run through a unified, policy-driven control plane. Kubernetes lifecycle management, hybrid cluster operations, VM orchestration, bare-metal provisioning, and AI tooling adopt the same operational pattern, regardless of location. The continuous rise of sovereign and air-gapped environments benefit from this consistency, supported by fully offline-capable automation.
Across the organization, infrastructure becomes coherent and consumable. Developers and AI practitioners gain immediate access to the environments they need. Platform teams operate distributed environments with far less complexity. Compute estates behave like a cloud : pooled, elastic, governed, and transparently mapped to cost and usage. For cloud and service providers, this becomes the foundation for differentiated, white-labeled platform services.
The Road Ahead: Platform-Driven I&O Is the Future
AI and cloud-native workloads are becoming the center of enterprise gravity. The organizations that thrive will be those that embrace a platform operating model capable of supporting this new era. Rafay provides that foundation, transforming modern compute from fragmented and operationally heavy into a unified engine of innovation and durable advantage.
Meet Rafay at Gartner IOCS 2025
Rafay invites Gartner IOCS attendees to connect on-site, discuss the future of I&O, and explore how the platform model can help organizations move faster, strengthen governance, and simplify operations across hybrid and AI-driven environments. Rafay looks forward to meeting industry leaders, sharing insights, and advancing the conversation together.
