CloudBolt CTPO on Recent GigOm Report & Cloud Automation

CloudBolt Software, a cloud ROI company, has recently been recognized as a Leader and Fast Mover in the 2025 GigaOm Radar Report for Cloud Management Platforms.

Platform recognized for cloud management capabilities

The GigaOm report evaluated 15 vendors based on criteria that include technical innovation, execution, maturity, and the ability to deliver business value.

“We’re honored to be recognized by GigaOm as a Leader and Fast Mover,” said Rod Squires, CEO of CloudBolt. “As the report indicated, our offering is not just a CMP– it’s a convergence layer that unifies self-service, cost control, and automation to maximize cloud ROI. As part of our overall portfolio of solutions, our customers are able to reduce insight to action and gain advantage across all their cloud initiatives.”

According to the report, CloudBolt excels in:

• Cross-platform management: Unified operations across diverse cloud environments through a single, consistent interface. The interface supports over 20 different cloud endpoints, delivering comprehensive visibility and control regardless of underlying infrastructure.
• Automation management: Automation capabilities that enable organizations to streamline complex operations across hybrid cloud environments.
• FinOps extends beyond initiative provisioning to support the full resource lifecycle, helping organizations maintain control and visibility over their cloud estates.

CTPO tells Channel Insider how Broadcom disruption and FinOps focus have shifted priorities

On the heels of this news, Channel Insider had the opportunity to sit down with CloudBolt CTPO Kyle Campos to discuss this recognition, what sets CloudBolt apart from others, and recent advancements.

“The repatriation stuff, but also some of the Broadcom licensing changes around VMware has caused people to rethink automation approaches in a private cloud or hybrid cloud context in ways they haven’t had to consider for a lot of years– sometimes a decade or longer,” Campos said. “Us being a leader in that space, we have a very mature automation around all forms of cloud provisioning and governance, day two automation, etc.”

Campos highlights that CloudBolt essentially provides an extensibility framework to add to your company’s own integrations and APIs, which is essential, given that many of their customers automate full data center deployments, from networking devices to security policies, to VMs, containers, and more.

Further, GigaOm’s evaluation of CloudBolt is partly due to the organization’s continued extension of the platform’s richness and breadth, Campos told us.

“Some of the new things that we’ve extended, whether that’s OpenStack or some of the other platforms or Red Hat’s ecosystem more broadly around OpenShift– and people are starting to get less VMware dependent has helped us a lot,” said Campos. “Some of the FinOps overlay with all of that has also helped us fill in that storyline as well. And, honestly, getting some pretty big customers’ success stories under our belt, navigating the Broadcom bomb effects, and starting to get some traction in the market with a life after total Broadcom dependence has been helpful and led to a resurgence.”

Self-serve functionality and automation drive results 

Squires mentioned CloudBolt as a convergence layer for self-service, cost control, and automation. For Campos, he sees unique ways that this concept will evolve over the next couple of years.

“One way to view this is the sort of overlap of those disciplines and what are the shared concerns from a FinOps perspective, a DevOps perspective, operational security– this Venn diagram of what we all care about and do we have a platform that can facilitate work flows and how we manage that shared concern together,” Campos explained. “As we do those things really well in a shared common experience, things like the needs of a FinOps team start getting baked into platform engineering practices.” 

Following this recognition, what’s next on CloudBolt’s list of priorities includes the reusability of integrations and tooling for provisioning and day-two automation.

“That space is, from a tooling perspective, pretty broad,” Campos said. “So there’s a lot of work for us to do to rationalize that and make it simpler, more reusable for our users so they get more leverage out of every integration that they’re doing. And our customers– as their technology landscape keeps extending– we’ve got more work to do to rationalize it and make it simple for users.”

Kubernetes expertise and SaaS platform orchestration also key to growth

Campos added that the ease of deployment for their Kubernetes optimization platform, which integrates it into both their cloud management space and FinOps platform, and brings all of these together into a common experience, is a significant advantage for CloudBolt. They’re working with their cloud management platform (CMP) customers on their Kubernetes footprints in ways that weren’t as accessible before, accelerating their product value in the Kubernetes space.

Another path for CloudBolt, Campos says, is in their SaaS platform capabilities. In their FinOps SaaS platform, they’ve done a lot of work to integrate CMP orchestration and private cloud context.

“One of the inside advantages we have here as a SaaS platform is our strength on both orchestration and cost management, and now Kubernetes automation optimization,” said Campos. “Bringing all those together in a common experience that all of those disciplines and personas can benefit from– that’s our roadmap charter.”

What’s next for CloudBolt also includes some big product announcements that are pending announcement at KubeCon 2025, Campos adds. Many of those announcements relate to integrating their Kubernetes optimization work into their platform and the benefits this will bring to users.

Earlier this year, CloudBolt made its FinOps platform offering available to Ingram Micro partners. Read more about this agreement and its ability to serve thousands of MSPs and VARs.