STAKATERSTAKATERFor IBM Fusion Customers
Infrastructure and a cloud product are not the same thing.
Let's find out where you actually stand.
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A real cloud lets your customers answer yes to all of these.
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Can a new customer provision a VM themselves — without calling you?
Self-service portal with a service catalog
Can you onboard a new customer in under an hour — without touching infrastructure?
Automated tenant provisioning
Do your customers see their live usage and costs without asking you?
Real-time metering and cost transparency
Are your customers isolated from each other by architecture — not just by configuration?
Hard multi-tenancy at the infrastructure level
If you doubled your customer count tomorrow, would your ops team stay the same size?
Automation-first operations model
Does your platform run under your own brand — your domain, your portal, your experience?
White-label cloud product
When you decide to sell a new service — a database, a Kubernetes cluster, a backup service — can customers provision it themselves the same day?
Service catalog — build, publish, and sell new offerings without custom integration work
Can you offer a Basic plan and an Enterprise plan today — different quotas, different SLAs, different prices — or does every customer get the same thing?
Service tiers and packaging — the commercial model that lets you upsell and grow revenue
That's not a failure. IBM Fusion was never designed to solve these problems.
What IBM Fusion gives you
✓ Compute, storage, networking
✓ VM and container workloads
✓ High availability and resilience
✓ Enterprise-grade platform
The foundation is solid. ✓
What IBM Fusion doesn't give you
✗ Self-service for customers
✗ Multi-tenant isolation
✗ Usage metering and billing
✗ Your brand, your portal
✗ Scale without growing headcount
✗ Service catalog — build, publish and sell new offerings
✗ Service tiers — Basic, Standard, Enterprise with different SLAs and pricing
This is the gap — and it's costing you growth.
IBM Fusion can handle 100 customers. The way you operate today can't.
Today — Services model
Every customer is a manual project
Onboarding takes engineering weeks, not minutes
Growth means hiring — revenue scales linearly
Margins erode as you add customers
Anyone with a rack of servers can compete with you
With commercial layer — Platform model
Customers onboard and self-serve — no engineering needed
Infrastructure shared safely across all tenants
10x customers, same team — margins improve with scale
Tiered plans, upsell paths, consumption-based pricing
Your platform is the product — and the moat
The gap is one layer
Add
✓ Self-service portal
✓ Multi-tenancy
✓ Usage metering
✓ White-label branding
✓ Service catalog
You already have
✓ IBM Fusion HCI
✓ IBM Fusion Virtualization
✓ IBM Fusion Data Foundation
✓ Enterprise-grade platform
Stakater Cloud Orchestrator runs in production today — on infrastructure just like yours.
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