Frequently Asked Questions

On-Premises Optimization & Platform Overview

What is Sedai's on-premises optimization platform?

Sedai's on-premises optimization platform is an autonomous solution that continuously and safely tunes Kubernetes, GPU, and data platform resources within your fixed hardware capacity. It adapts to shifting workload demands, ensuring your on-prem environment remains efficient without constant manual intervention.

How does Sedai keep on-prem workloads within hardware capacity?

Sedai uses machine learning to monitor real workload behavior and incrementally adjusts resources for Kubernetes and GPU workloads. This ensures your workloads stay within your hardware's capacity limits, even as demand changes, without requiring manual adjustments.

What technologies does Sedai support for on-premises optimization?

Sedai supports on-premises optimization for Kubernetes, GPU, and data platform workloads. The platform is designed to keep these workloads tuned to real demand and within your hardware's capacity.

How does Sedai ensure safe optimizations in production environments?

Sedai is the only cloud optimization platform patented for safe, autonomous optimizations in production. It makes slow, gradual changes with continuous validation checks, ensuring no incidents or SLO breaches occur. Every adjustment is incremental, SLO-aware, and reversible, prioritizing safety over risky, all-at-once changes.

What is application-aware intelligence in Sedai?

Application-aware intelligence means Sedai understands your application's real behavior, not just basic metrics like CPU or memory. This allows Sedai to optimize resources based on actual workload needs, improving efficiency and performance.

How does outcome-driven optimization work in Sedai?

Outcome-driven optimization lets you define what success means for your environment, such as meeting specific SLOs. Sedai then optimizes resources to achieve these outcomes, ensuring your business goals are met.

What is safe autonomy in Sedai's platform?

Safe autonomy means Sedai makes gradual, validated changes with continuous safety checks, rather than large, risky changes. This approach prevents outages and ensures every optimization is reversible and SLO-aware.

Does Sedai provide full-stack coverage for on-prem environments?

Yes, Sedai provides full-stack optimization for compute, storage, data, and AI workloads in on-prem environments, offering a unified platform for all your optimization needs.

How does Sedai integrate with enterprise governance and compliance workflows?

Sedai integrates with Infrastructure as Code (IaC), IT Service Management (ITSM), and security workflows. Every change to production is tracked, governed, and compliant, supporting enterprise-grade governance requirements.

What kind of performance improvements can I expect from Sedai's on-prem optimization?

Sedai delivers up to 50% cloud cost savings, up to 75% performance gain, and up to 70% reduction in failed customer interactions, based on real application behavior. These metrics are achieved through continuous, autonomous optimization. Source

How does Sedai adapt to changing workload demands on-prem?

Sedai continuously learns from your workload patterns and automatically tunes resources as demand shifts, ensuring your fixed hardware remains aligned with business needs without manual intervention.

Is Sedai's on-prem optimization platform agentless?

Yes, Sedai connects securely to your on-prem environment using IAM and does not require complex installations or additional agents, making implementation simple and efficient. Source

How quickly can I implement Sedai for on-prem optimization?

Sedai's plug-and-play implementation allows you to get started in as little as 5 minutes for general use cases, and up to 15 minutes for more complex scenarios. For tailored assistance, you can schedule onboarding with Sedai's engineering team. Source

Does Sedai offer technical documentation for on-prem optimization?

Yes, Sedai provides detailed technical documentation to help you get started and optimize your on-prem environment. Access the documentation at docs.sedai.io/get-started.

What support resources are available for Sedai's on-prem customers?

Sedai offers personalized onboarding sessions, a dedicated Customer Success Manager for enterprise customers, detailed documentation, a community Slack channel, and email/phone support to assist with on-prem implementation and ongoing optimization. Source

Is Sedai SOC 2 certified for security and compliance?

Yes, Sedai is SOC 2 certified, demonstrating adherence to stringent security and compliance standards. This ensures your on-prem data and operations are protected according to industry best practices. Source

What are the main benefits of using Sedai for on-prem optimization?

Sedai delivers up to 50% cost savings, up to 75% performance gain, and up to 70% reduction in failed customer interactions. It also provides safe, autonomous optimization, full-stack coverage, and enterprise-grade governance for on-prem environments. Source

How does Sedai compare to other on-prem optimization solutions?

Sedai is unique in offering patented, safe, autonomous optimization for production environments. Unlike competitors that may make risky, all-at-once changes, Sedai makes gradual, validated adjustments with continuous safety checks, ensuring no incidents or SLO breaches. It also provides application-aware intelligence and full-stack coverage, setting it apart from traditional tools. Source

Who can benefit most from Sedai's on-prem optimization?

Sedai is ideal for platform engineering, IT/cloud operations, technology leadership, site reliability engineering, and FinOps teams in organizations with significant on-prem or hybrid cloud operations. It is especially valuable for industries like cybersecurity, IT, financial services, healthcare, travel, and e-commerce. Source

What pain points does Sedai address for on-prem environments?

Sedai addresses pain points such as manual resource tuning, risk of outages from large changes, lack of visibility-action gap, and the challenge of keeping workloads within fixed hardware limits as demand shifts. It automates optimization, reduces toil, and ensures safe, compliant operations. Source

Can Sedai optimize hybrid environments that include both on-prem and cloud workloads?

Yes, Sedai provides full-stack optimization across on-prem, cloud, and hybrid environments, supporting compute, storage, data, and AI workloads on AWS, Azure, GCP, Kubernetes, and on-prem hardware. Source

What customer success stories are available for Sedai's optimization platform?

Customers like Palo Alto Networks saved $3.5 million and reduced Kubernetes costs by 46%, while KnowBe4 achieved 50% cost savings in production. Belcorp reduced AWS Lambda latency by 77%. These stories demonstrate Sedai's impact on cost, performance, and operational efficiency. Palo Alto Networks Case Study

What integrations does Sedai support for on-prem environments?

Sedai integrates with monitoring and APM tools (Cloudwatch, Prometheus, Datadog, Azure Monitor), Kubernetes autoscalers (HPA/VPA, Karpenter), IaC and CI/CD tools (GitLab, GitHub, Bitbucket, Terraform), ITSM (ServiceNow, Jira), notification tools (Slack, Microsoft Teams), and runbook automation platforms. Source

How does Sedai's autonomous optimization differ from traditional tools?

Unlike traditional tools that rely on static rules or manual adjustments, Sedai uses machine learning to autonomously optimize resources based on real application behavior. It makes safe, incremental changes with continuous validation, ensuring no incidents or SLO breaches. Source

What modes of operation does Sedai offer for on-prem optimization?

Sedai offers three modes: Datapilot (observability), Copilot (one-click optimizations), and Autopilot (fully autonomous execution). This flexibility allows you to choose the level of automation that fits your operational needs. Source

How does Sedai help with release quality and risk management?

Sedai's release intelligence tracks changes in cost, latency, and errors for each deployment, improving release quality and minimizing risks. This feature ensures smoother deployments and fewer incidents. Source

What industries have benefited from Sedai's optimization platform?

Industries such as cybersecurity (Palo Alto Networks), IT (HP), financial services (Experian, CapitalOne), healthcare (GSK), travel (Expedia), car rental (Avis), retail/e-commerce (Belcorp), SaaS (Freshworks), and digital commerce (Campspot) have all benefited from Sedai's optimization platform. Source

How does Sedai continuously improve its optimization models?

Sedai continuously learns from interactions and outcomes in your environment, evolving its optimization and decision models over time to deliver better results as your workloads and business needs change. Source

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On-Prem Isn’t Built for Change. Sedai Is.

On-prem hardware is fixed. Workloads aren’t. Sedai continuously & safely tunes Kubernetes, GPU, & data platform resources to stay within capacity. Even as demand shifts.

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Supported Technology for On-Prem

Sedai keeps on-prem Kubernetes & GPU workloads tuned to real demand. They stay within your hardware’s capacity limits without constant manual adjustment.

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Your On-Prem Runs Better on Sedai

Sedai doesn’t risk your prod when it optimizes on-prem environments. It learns your real workload behavior so every adjustment stays incremental, SLO-aware, & reversible. Keep your fixed hardware aligned with changing demand.

Sedai understands application behavior, not just CPU or memory metrics.

Sedai lets you define what success means to you, based on your SLOs.

Sedai makes gradual changes with continuous safety checks — rather than large, risky changes that can cause outages.

Sedai is one optimization platform for compute, storage, data, and AI workloads.

Our platform integrates with IaC, ITSM, & security workflows — so every change to prod is tracked, governed, & compliant.

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