What CloudCIX does

CloudCIX Limited is an Irish private cloud-infrastructure company headquartered at the Cork Internet eXchange data centre in Hollyhill Industrial Estate, Cork. It operates an open-source, Apache 2.0-licensed, multi-tenant cloud platform deployable on industry-standard hardware, supporting Linux Containers (LXC), Linux VMs, Windows hosts, CEPH distributed storage, and GPU resources, alongside a fully managed public cloud service consumed via a self-serve SaaS portal (saas.cloudcix.com). The platform's architecture comprises a Provisioning and Telemetry layer (PAT), a Central Orchestration Platform (COP), and region flavours called Pods. CloudCIX's customer base spans four horizontal segments — Enterprise & Government, Machine Learning, High Performance Computing, and Research & Education — served through a dual go-to-market combining product-led self-service with enterprise field sales and community-led outreach via the Boole HPC Platform.

The company's product surface includes the core CloudCIX platform, the Boole HPC Platform (Slurm scheduling, Open OnDemand portal, A100/H100/B200 GPU nodes), S3-compatible Object Storage, an ML API exposing OpenAI-compatible LLM endpoints (Mistral-Large-3) and proprietary Irish-English embedding models, and the RAG Workbench (a packaged chatbot development environment priced at €1,200 for a 12-month training, workbench and support package). Revenue is generated primarily through subscription and usage-based pricing on public cloud and HPC/AI services, plus optional paid support and 24x7 monitoring on self-built private cloud deployments. CloudCIX is ISO 27001 certified and PCI DSS compliant, positions all data within EU jurisdiction for European data sovereignty, and operates under a formal Shared Responsibility Model Policy. Recent strategic emphasis has been on deploying Ireland's first liquid-cooled NVIDIA B200 supercomputer (January 2026) and aligning with ICHEC, CeADAR and the EuroHPC joint undertaking on the €10m AI Factory Antenna programme.

Name

CloudCIX

Legal name

CloudCIX Limited

Website

https://cloudcix.com

Company type

Private

Founded year

2020

Operating status

Operating

Headcount range

11–50 employees

Short description

CloudCIX Limited operates an open-source, Apache 2.0 multi-tenant cloud platform delivering private and public cloud, HPC and AI/ML services to enterprise, government, research and academic customers from its Cork data centre, with European data sovereignty.

Ownership category

akta.pro rank

Product category

Cloud Infrastructure Services

NAICS

Computing Infrastructure Providers, Data Processing, Web Hosting, and Related Services (5182), Computer Systems Design and Related Services (54151), Computer Facilities Management Services (541513)

SIC

Services-Computer Integrated Systems Design (7373), Services-Computer Programming, Data Processing, Etc. (7370)

akta.pro primary industry

Private Cloud Platforms (On‑Prem Cloud Stacks) (HDABABAA)

akta.pro secondary industries

Cloud Managed Services (Operations, Monitoring, Patching) (BPAEACAF), Cloud-Native Enablement (Containers, Kubernetes, Service Mesh) (BPAEAKAE), Hybrid Cloud Compute & Virtualization Stack (HCI/VMs/Kubernetes) (HDABAMAF)

Keywords

• Cloud infrastructure services
• High performance computing
• Private cloud platform
• Machine learning APIs
• Sovereign cloud hosting

Headquarters

HQ city

Cork

HQ country

Ireland

HQ region

Europe

Offices2 records

Markets served

GTM type

B2B

Offering type

Software

Cost components

Personnel, Technology or R&D, Infrastructure, Operations, Marketing or Sales

Revenue model

1. Public Cloud Services (IaaS): Fully supported turnkey public cloud services where customers consume compute, storage, networking, and security resources on a subscription or usage basis. Customers avoid capital budgets and benefit from flexible, agile IT systems.
2. Private Cloud Platform (Self-Build): Customers build their own open source cloud platform on industry-standard hardware using CloudCIX's ISO installer and Docker containers. Revenue derived from optional paid support and 24x7 monitoring packages.
3. HPC and AI Services: High-performance computing and AI services including Boole HPC platform access, GPU compute (A100, H100, B200), ML APIs (LLM, embedding, RAG), and RAG Workbench subscription (€1,200 for 12-month training + workbench + support package).
4. Machine Learning APIs: OpenAI-compatible LLM and embedding APIs billed by API key and usage, with address-based access control for IP-restricted API calls within CloudCIX projects.

Pricing tiers

Go-to-market motion3 records

Distribution channels3 records

Marketing channels5 records

Core offering

CloudCIX provides an open source (Apache 2.0), multi-tenant, multi-region cloud platform deployable on industry-standard hardware, supporting LXC containers, Linux and Windows VMs, CEPH storage, and GPU resources. The company offers both a fully managed public cloud service (consumed via saas.cloudcix.com) and a self-build private cloud option with optional paid 24x7 support. It also operates the Boole HPC Platform (Slurm-based, GPU-accelerated), ML APIs (Mistral-Large-3 and proprietary Irish-English embedding models), and the RAG Workbench chatbot development environment.

Product overview

CloudCIX offers a dual-mode cloud platform combining an open source self-hosted cloud platform with a managed public cloud service. The platform is built on open source software under Apache License 2.0, supporting multi-region, multi-tenant deployments on industry-standard hardware. Key products include CloudCIX (the core open source platform), CloudCIX Public Cloud (managed service), ML API (OpenAI-compatible LLM and embedding services), RAG Workbench (RAG chatbot development), Boole HPC Platform (Slurm-based research computing with GPU support), and Object Storage (S3-compatible). The ML capabilities leverage Mistral-Large-3 and proprietary Irish-English embedding models.

Differentiator

Problem solved

Functional benefit

Brands

• Boole HPC Platform: High Performance Computing platform operated by CloudCIX providing compute resources for interactive data exploration, batch processing, parallel workloads, GPU jobs, containers, and object storage access.
• RAG Workbench
• CloudCIX Guiden

Products and services

• CloudCIX Open Source Cloud Platform Open source, multi-region, multi-tenant cloud computing platform deployable on industry-standard hardware. Supports Linux Containers (LXC), Linux VMs, Microsoft Windows hosts, CEPH storage, and GPU resources for HPC and AI capabilities. Customers can build private cloud environments with optional paid support and 24x7 monitoring. Targeted at enterprises, government, and research institutions.
• CloudCIX Public Cloud Fully supported turnkey public cloud service providing compute, storage, networking, and security capabilities. Enables customers to consume cloud resources without capital expenditure. Accessed via the SaaS portal at saas.cloudcix.com with self-service provisioning and IP-based API access.
• Boole HPC Platform High Performance Computing platform providing compute resources for interactive data exploration, batch processing, parallel workloads, GPU jobs, and container workloads. Features Slurm workload manager, Open OnDemand web portal with Jupyter, RStudio, VS Code Server, ParaView, and access to NVIDIA A100/H100 GPUs. Designed for genomics, bioinformatics, CFD, and research computing.
• ML API Stateless machine learning APIs including LLM APIs (Mistral-Large-3 multimodal MoE model with 41B active / 675B total parameters), embedding models (cix_question_encoder, cix_chunk_encoder for Irish-English), scraping APIs, and parsing APIs. OpenAI-compatible interface accessible via standard OpenAI client libraries. Billed by usage with address-based API key for billing.
• RAG Workbench Chatbot development platform enabling businesses to build Retrieval Augmented Generation (RAG) systems. Includes document upload, model selection, embedding database with vector similarity search (cosine, dot product, Euclidean), re-ranking, LLM integration, and workflow customization. Offered as introductory package at €1,200 for 12 months including staff training, ML Workbench access, and ongoing support.
• CloudCIX Object Storage S3-compatible object storage service with endpoint https://s3-boole.cloudcix.com. Supports standard AWS S3 tools and SDKs. Accessible via s3cmd, Cyberduck, and AWS SDKs.
• Compute Instances Virtual machine instances supporting Linux (LXC, KVM) and Windows (Hyper-V) workloads. Supports GPU instances with NVIDIA A100 and H100 GPUs. Includes cloud-init userdata support for VM customization.
• Paid Support and 24x7 Monitoring Optional paid support package and 24x7 monitoring service for customers deploying the CloudCIX open source cloud platform on their own infrastructure. Includes access to cloud computing experts and round-the-clock operational support.

Quantifiable outcome

• First liquid-cooled NVIDIA B200 supercomputer in Ireland, operational Q1 2026
• +1 more outcomes

Named customers4 records

Segments4 records

Ideal customer profiles4 records

Technology focussed Yes

API detail

Has API

Yes

API docs

API detail

Core technology

AI maturity

App detail

Integration5 records

AI capability7 records

Feature7 records

Partnerships

Six partnerships are on record, tiered core and major.

• AlloCompcoreTechnology or Integration · 21 January 2026AlloComp delivered Ireland's first liquid-cooled NVIDIA B200 supercomputer at the CloudCIX Cork data centre in partnership with Dell Technologies. AlloComp and CloudCIX co-hosted an open day event on 27 January 2026 to showcase the infrastructure. AlloComp serves as the integrator and technology delivery partner for the advanced GPU supercomputer deployment.
• Dell TechnologiescoreTechnology or Integration · 21 January 2026Dell Technologies is the hardware infrastructure partner for the liquid-cooled NVIDIA B200 supercomputer deployment at CloudCIX's Cork facility. The partnership forms part of AlloComp's delivery of Ireland's most advanced AI infrastructure.
• Irish Centre for High-End Computing (ICHEC)coreStrategic or Co-development PartnerICHEC is the national HPC authority in Ireland, managing national supercomputing infrastructure including the CASPIR supercomputer procurement. CloudCIX provides European sovereign HPC public services aligned with ICHEC's national HPC mission. ICHEC and CeADAR are implementing a €10m European-funded AI Factory Antenna.
• CeADARmajorStrategic or Co-development PartnerCeADAR is Ireland's centre for applied AI and data analytics. Alongside ICHEC, CeADAR is implementing the €10m AI Factory Antenna funded by the European High-Performance Computing joint undertaking, positioned alongside national HPC infrastructure.
• European High-Performance Computing joint undertaking (EuroHPC JU)coreStrategic or Co-development PartnerThe European High-Performance Computing joint undertaking funds and procures pan-European supercomputing infrastructure. It is procuring the CASPIR supercomputer via University of Galway and providing European funding for the €10m AI Factory Antenna in Ireland, in which CloudCIX's HPC infrastructure plays a role.
• University of GalwaymajorStrategic or Co-development PartnerUniversity of Galway is the lead institution procuring the CASPIR (Computational Analysis and Simulation Platform for Ireland) supercomputer on behalf of the European HPC joint undertaking, to be managed by ICHEC. The university is a key academic anchor for Ireland's national HPC strategy.

Scale indicators4 records

Recent moves6 records

Expansion highlights6 records

Direct peers

• OVHcloud: European-headquartered hyperscale cloud provider offering IaaS, private cloud, HPC, and bare-metal GPU servers with a strong European data sovereignty narrative. Direct competitor to CloudCIX in the EU sovereign cloud and HPC segments.
• Scaleway: European cloud provider offering compute (including GPU instances), object storage, and bare-metal servers with EU data residency. Closely comparable to CloudCIX on geographic positioning, GPU compute, and S3-compatible storage.
• Vultr: Cloud platform offering compute (including GPU), bare metal, and storage with hourly billing and a global footprint. Comparable to CloudCIX on self-serve cloud infrastructure with GPU offerings for AI/HPC workloads.
• Linode (Akamai): Cloud computing provider offering Linux VMs, GPU instances, and object storage with a developer-friendly self-serve model. Highly comparable to CloudCIX's public cloud and HPC platform for SMB and developer workloads.
• DigitalOcean: Public cloud provider targeting developers, startups, and SMBs with compute, storage, and managed databases. Comparable to CloudCIX's self-serve PLG motion and developer-focused IaaS positioning, though with a global rather than EU-sovereign footprint.
• Hetzner: European cloud and dedicated server provider known for cost-effective compute and storage. Competes with CloudCIX on price-sensitive European SMB and developer cloud workloads, with overlapping IaaS and private cloud positioning.

Emerging players

• Wasabi Technologies: S3-compatible object storage provider competing on price and predictability. Overlaps with CloudCIX's S3-compatible Object Storage offering as a focused competitor in the EU storage market.
• MinIO: Open source S3-compatible object storage software used by many cloud providers and enterprises. Comparable to CloudCIX in the open-source storage stack and could be an indirect competitor or open-source alternative for object storage layers.

Regional players

• ICHEC (Irish Centre for High-End Computing): National HPC authority in Ireland operating CASPIR and managing Irish national supercomputing capacity. Direct regional peer to CloudCIX in Ireland's HPC ecosystem, and a strategic partner for national AI infrastructure access.

Broad incumbents

• IONOS: Large European cloud and hosting provider with a broad portfolio spanning shared hosting, dedicated servers, cloud servers, and managed services. Overlaps with CloudCIX on European sovereign cloud and SMB cloud workloads but at significantly larger scale.

Market position

Strengths5 records

Weaknesses5 records

Competitive moat5 records

Key risks6 records

Key highlights6 records

Customer concentration

• YouTubeyoutube.com/@cloudcix
• Xx.com/cloudcix
• LinkedInlinkedin.com/company/cork-internet-exchange

Compliance2 records

Revenue estimate

Valuation estimate

Number of profiles

Profiles8 records

Funding overview

Funding rounds

Investors

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M&A

Investments

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