Santa Clara, August 7, 2025 – StarNet Communications, in cooperation with development partners TGS Systems and GoogleCloud has developed a significant cost-saving Kubernetes enhancement for deployment of graphics visualization applications deployed in Linux-based cloud environments. The FastX server, when deployed in the Cloud, allows each container to automatically scale both memory and CPU to the desired requirements for each individual cloud-hosted application.
Why is this important? In any group of developers, there are those that require terabytes of memory and vast CPU crunching power, while others perform tasks, such as coding, that require minimal resources. Until recently companies invested in clusters of powerful and very expensive computers tailored to the needs of the high-power users. But having engineers that require minimal CPU and Memory work on these high-powered cloud servers is uneconomical.
“While enabling the power users to work productively, these cloud systems are not cost effective for those that require very little memory and CPU, resulting in a large amount of wasted CPU and Memory capacity. In simple terms, you don’t need an 18-wheeler truck to do your grocery shopping,” said Steven Schoch, StarNet co-founder and CEO.
In recent years many organizations have moved their Computing needs into the cloud. Not having to purchase or manage their own clusters of servers achieves vast savings in hardware and IT support. Costly downtime of nodes or an entire cluster is also eliminated as the cloud offers unlimited always-on access to computing resources.
“Companies are painfully discovering that the Cloud also produces a lot of waste. Having powerful cloud servers, costing thousands of dollars an hour or more, sitting idle waiting for jobs or handling trivial tasks like command line coding to text editing is very wasteful,” Schoch said.
By deploying FastX in a Kubernetes cloud, each individual user’s container (a virtual node) is automatically scaled to the user’s CPU and memory requirements for the job at hand. FastX will tell the cloud the requirements for the job at hand, so the cloud can scale to those specifications. Now you can set up cloud servers in a minimal configuration at $5 an hour. Then when Kubernetes assigns the node a task involving processing of graphical data, FastX scales the node to the appropriate memory and CPU footprint. When the job is completed, the container is destroyed or scaled back to a minimum configuration.
FastX is the only remote visualization tool that offers this money-saving instant scaling capability. Competing solutions like VNC and ETX also work in the cloud. But you are stuck with those $5,000-an-hour servers sitting idle and chewing up your budget.
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About StarNet Communications
StarNet Communications Corp., founded in 1989, develops and markets X Windows Connectivity solutions for Windows, Macintosh and Linux platforms for corporate, educational and government organizations. StarNet’s family of products offers cost-effective, best-of-breed remote Linux and Unix display solutions. Based in Sunnyvale, Calif., StarNet is privately held. For more information about our X Windows connectivity solutions, visit https://www.starnet.com