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Why the Smartest Visibility Vendors in the World Are About to Partner with Sly Technologies
Dec 1, 2025
Why the Smartest Visibility Vendors in the World Are About to Partner with Sly Technologies
(and why their customers – and their shareholders – will thank them)
Your customers already spent tens or hundreds of millions of dollars on your packet brokers, high-speed recorders, deep-observability pipelines, and lawful-intercept probes.
Those appliances are not obsolete.
They are gold mines waiting to be unlocked at exascale.
That is exactly what ExaScale OS™ does — and why forward-thinking visibility manufacturers are quietly lining up to integrate with us.
We Don’t Sell Appliances (Well… Almost None)
Sly Technologies is proudly software-only.
We do not compete with you on hardware.
We do not build 1U capture boxes, 42U recorders, or 800 Gbps packet brokers.
The only piece of metal we ever ship is a tiny, optional federation controller called the ExaNerve™ — a 1U, fanless, zero moving parts — whose only job is to run the global control plane and keep ten thousand of your appliances perfectly synchronized across continents.
Everything else (capture nodes, storage nodes, SmartNICs, probes) stays 100 % yours or your customer’s existing investment.
How ExaScale Multiplies the Value of Your Installed Base
What your customers already own | What happens when ExaScale is layered on top (via SILO federation) | Business impact for you |
|---|---|---|
400–800 Gbps packet brokers and probes deployed in 2020–2025 | Instantly become part of a globally federated exascale fabric that can store and query petabytes to exabytes with sub-second response times | Your hardware suddenly supports use cases that were previously impossible → customers buy more of your appliances to feed the fabric |
Appliances that today top out at 10–100 TB of local storage | Become lossless feeders into an unlimited sharded lake with 7-year GDPR-proof retention and immutable ledger | Storage refresh cycles turn into expansion cycles — they keep buying your probes because now they can actually use the data forever |
Existing metadata engines and IDS rule sets | Get overlaid with ExaInsight AI that auto-generates ExaQL from natural language and tunes rules in real time | Your product goes from “fast forwarding” to “intelligent nervous system” without writing a single new line of code |
Customers terrified of rip-and-replace | Achieve zero-trust, PII obfuscation, cross-region sovereignty, and AI hunting with a software overlay that takes weeks, not years | Dramatically shorter sales cycles and higher win rates because the conversation changes from “replace” to “elevate” |
The New Revenue Streams You Unlock (Without Building Anything New)
Land-and-Expand on Steroids
A customer with 20 of your appliances today becomes a 200-appliance customer tomorrow because ExaScale makes scaling painless and lossless.Recurring Software Attach
We pay you 20–30 % revenue share on every ExaScale license that runs on top of your hardware. Your sales team simply has to say “yes” when the customer asks for exascale.Defense & LI Upsell
ExaScale + your hardware + our ExaNerve controller = the only solution on earth that can prove legal admissibility across air-gapped, multi-sovereign deployments. Governments pay premium for that.Channel Margin Protection
Because we never sell direct hardware, your channel partners keep their full margins while offering the most advanced packet fabric ever built.
The Technical Integration Is Laughably Simple
Drop a 200-line SILO catalog (YAML) into our public GitHub → done.
Your existing REST/JSON APIs become instantly queryable with ExaQL.
Your appliances appear as first-class citizens inside
/silos/alongside everyone else.Your brand, your logos, your support contracts — everything stays yours.
We are not asking you to open your kimono.
We are asking you to let your customers finally use the full potential of the hardware they already paid you for.
The Window Is Short
In 24–36 months, every RFP on the planet will contain the line:
“Must support exascale retention, global federation, and AI-driven hunting without hardware forklift.”
The winners will be the manufacturers who can check that box tomorrow — not the ones still building bigger appliances.
We already built the box.
We are just waiting for you to put your logo on it.
If you sell packet visibility hardware and you are tired of watching your installed base gather dust while cloud-native startups eat your lunch, send an email to:
We’ll show you — in a single 2-hour call — how your appliances become the backbone of the first true planetary-scale packet fabric.
Your hardware.
Our software.
Their unlimited future.
Let’s write it together.