Zanshuri is the nexus of many things.
Begun in January of 2010 as a computer hardware business, our focus was on designing and building the most energy efficient computer systems possible. We wanted to produce systems that would find a place in emerging economies, those with less than perfect electrical grid provision, as well as what we felt was a growing interest in off-grid data capture solutions.
The growing interest in green solutions proved that we were on the right track. Our systems found homes in areas as diverse as finance, trading, healthcare, construction, CAD, education, emergency services and disaster response to name a few. We were always seen as a niche operator however, and of course, we wanted to be more than that.
So, we developed retro-engineering solutions which would allow our patented energy-recovery designs to work within the chassis of servers and desktop systems which were being produced by the established manufacturers, e.g Dell, HP and so on.
We had limited success in this. Although our solutions were indeed capable and effective, the wider economic interest was not all that we hoped it might be.
Throughout this time, advances in technology and several political upheavals were slowly moving things into our favour. Computers were becoming not only more powerful, but also more portable. Our laptop sales were consistently rising, and that did not go unnoticed. Whilst we were able to secure efficiencies in laptop power consumption, the differences were not as stark as those we devised in the desktop and server space.
So I decided to pivot a significant element of our R&D budget to the development of datacentre systems. The Zanshuri Gamma was our blade server design which offered comparable performance to the most powerful blade solutions in the industry, whilst using a third of the energy. An impressive achievement in and of itself.
In going on to build a datacentre, fully populated with Zanshuri Gamma systems, not only was the resulting solution fully capable, but it also placed significantly lower demands on the environment. It did not require elaborate cooling as Gamma generates very little heat; it was not dependent on datacentre specific architecture to manage air and our compact design with a focus on solid state technology also meant our racks were physically lighter than equivalent systems.
From a programming perspective, we have leaned heavily on Unix-based software to allow a level of resilience which is difficult to match using MS-flavoured options. And by working with our clients to use co-location services and client-side data processing, coupled with server-side storage and replication, our localised energy consumption is even further reduced.
We knew we were onto something when we attracted the attention of organisations looking to develop the most cutting-edge Large Language Models and AI solutions. The massive volume of data produced through this work required unheard of storage capacity and demanded a level of resilience exceeding 99.9% uptime.
Today, our focus is on delivering massive data storage capability to our clients, with solutions currently in the exabyte range.
We continue to deliver on all fronts and are excited to be onboarding clients looking further afield than even the atmosphere we live in. Space exploration was not something we thought we might be part of, when Zanshuri was a baby.
Now, it’s simply the next page of our story.
Onward.
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