Zilliz, the company behind the open source vector database Milvus, is debuting an enhanced iteration of Zilliz Cloud Bring Your Own Cloud (BYOC), designed to further eliminate the burden of DevOps while offering enterprises full control over their data. As the industry's first and only vector database offering comprehensive BYOC capabilities, Zilliz Cloud BYOC helps accelerate AI implementation while centering security and compliance, noted the company.
Zilliz Cloud BYOC acts as a fully secured vector database solution that removes the strain of deployment management while maintaining full data sovereignty. This is particularly relevant for AI adoption, as Zilliz Cloud BYOC applies a variety of enterprise-grade security capabilities while offering advanced vector search performance by processing AI workloads where the data resides—in the customer’s cloud.
"Enterprise AI adoption surged in 2024 with no signs of slowing down, creating an increased need for AI-grade infrastructure," said Charles Xie, founder and CEO of Zilliz. "Today's businesses are looking for solutions that offer both the convenience of managed services and the control of self-hosted infrastructure for AI workloads, and Zilliz Cloud BYOC fits directly in that sweet spot. Users that leverage our exclusive BYOC capabilities benefit from the high performance and scalability of Zilliz Cloud along with operational flexibility and robust security measures."
Security is a pressing concern for many organizations looking to implement AI, especially in highly regulated industries such as finance, telecom, and government. Zilliz Cloud BYOC never accesses customer data or AI assets, all while offering abilities like fine-grained permission settings and private link support between the control plane and data plane for further control over their security postures.
Ultimately, Zilliz Cloud BYOC helps organizations in regulated industries—and beyond—no longer have to choose between AI innovation and compliance. Zilliz also emphasizes that BYOC is a cost-efficient solution, eliminating data transfer costs by processing AI workloads where the data lives and making large-scale AI deployments feasible by optimizing for data locality in the customer’s preferred cloud environment.
“I think every organization under the sun now has AI as a really important initiative,” said Chris Churilo, VP of marketing at Zilliz. “Some of these organizations, their security teams or compliance teams, their hands are tied, and they really can't go with a pure SaaS play. Charles and the team…they actually had a lot of empathy for the security and compliance teams.”
“They kind of took a step back and whiteboarded and thought about… [how we can give these organizations] all the power of Zilliz, both from a performance perspective [and] the engine itself, as well as remove that DevOps burden, but help them so that they can appropriately navigate the security and compliance burden that they also have?” Churilo continued. “There [are] very few SaaS providers that are actually taking the time to consider what these teams are really struggling with. AI is important, and we need to make sure that we create a really cost-effective solution. We also have to help these security teams reduce that burden.”
To learn more about Zilliz Cloud BYOC, please visit https://zilliz.com/.