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Klara
EXPERTS IN EMBEDDED/ARM, ZFS AND FREEBSD

Open Source Development. Reimagined.

Klara is at the intersection of enterprise and open source – applying our expert development and support services to help organizations build and manage scalable, future-proof infrastructure.

Whether you are pursuing an open source strategy on your own, or looking to outsource your efforts, we can lend our expertise to ensure you achieve the outcomes you need.

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ARM & Embedded Development

Take advantage of the rapidly growing ARMv8 ecosystem to build low-power clouds, more efficient appliances, or a next-gen high-performance server.

ZFS and Storage Development

Our renowned team of ZFS developers can help you design your next deployment, diagnose performance issues, and develop new features.

FreeBSD and OS Development

Our expert FreeBSD developers use a deliverable-based workflow to build custom boot loaders, device drivers, security features, and other kernel enhancements.

ZFS and FreeBSD Support

We provide comprehensive support services for FreeBSD and ZFS infrastructures, as well as implementing newer DevOps and CI/CD practices. Our support subscription ensures you have capable experts you can count on if you need help at any point.

Why Klara

Ease of Collaboration

Klara's open source solutions benefit from a collaborative community of developers and users who contribute to the software's improvement, providing access to a wealth of knowledge, experience, and best practices.

Accelerate Development

By leveraging the existing features and components of open source software, businesses can expedite the development and deployment of new applications, reducing time-to-market and associated costs compared to building solutions from scratch.

Cost Savings

Open source solutions typically have low or no licensing fees compared to proprietary SaaS solutions, resulting in significant cost savings for businesses.

Spotlight Customers

And their experience working with Klara

"At Plantformance, we leverage ZFS extensively in our products, pushing it to its limits. When we encountered a critical, undocumented memory consumption issue for which there was no available solution, we turned to Klara Systems.
Their team responded immediately with a clear proposal. They were able to rapidly diagnose the problem and engineer a custom patch for our software stack.
We were impressed not only by the speed and efficiency of their work but also by the fact that their solution was robust enough to be subsequently upstreamed into the OpenZFS project for the benefit of the entire community. The collaboration was seamless and incredibly effective. We highly recommend Klara Systems for any complex ZFS or open-ZFS software challenges." 
— Dominique Wille,CEO,Plantformance AG

Industrial IT | EU | Switzerland 🇨🇭
“Klara a travaillé sur certains de nos sujets liés à FreeBSD. 
Leur expertise dans ce domaine nous a permis de faire avancer nos projets de manière efficace et au niveau de qualité attendu. 
La communication avec Klara est très bonne et efficace. Ils sont toujours disponibles pour répondre à nos questions et pour traiter de nouveaux sujets en collaboration. 
Lorsqu'un sujet est lancé, nous avons une très bonne visibilité sur leur progression. Le résultat est toujours à la hauteur de nos attentes et nous sommes ravis de cette collaboration."
— Morgane Williatte,Lead Manager R&D,StormShield

Cybersécurité | EU | France 🇫🇷
“Klara handled some of our development topics related to FreeBSD. Their expertise on this subject allowed us to move our projects forward while maintaining the expected quality level.
Our communications with Klara are very good and efficient. They are always available to answer our questions and to deal with new topics in collaboration.
When a project is launched, we have very good visibility on their progress. The result is always up to our expectations, and we are delighted with this collaboration.”
— Morgane Williatte,Lead Manager R&D,StormShield

Cybersecurity | EU | France 🇫🇷
“Klara handled some of our development topics related to FreeBSD. Their expertise on this subject allowed us to move our projects forward while maintaining the expected quality level.
Our communications with Klara are very good and efficient. They are always available to answer our questions and to deal with new topics in collaboration.
When a project is launched, we have very good visibility on their progress. The result is always up to our expectations, and we are delighted with this collaboration.”
— Rob Mueller,CTO,Fastmail

Internet Software and Services | APAC | Australia 🇦🇺
“Klara handled our entire FreeBSD kernel development project. Their emphasis on communication was great. When we encountered issues, they quickly stepped in and created workable solutions.”
— Murat Balaban,CEO,Zen Armor

Network Security & Cybersecurity | NA | United States 🇺🇸
"Working with Klara has been exceptional. We had a hardware configuration issue that caused all ZFS member disks in our 300TB array to become unrecognized after a reboot. When our systems administrators reached their experience limit, Klara's team responded very quickly, recovering the research data in 1.5hr. 
The depth of Klara’s experience and customer base truly shine through in their ability to resolve even the quirkiest of issues. While one might hope to never need them, we’re glad we did. We now have a monthly support subscription to always have the expertise of Klara available.”
— Jason Pappas,Rutgers University

Higher Education | NA | United States 🇺🇸
"Cooperation with Klara has saved us considerable time and helped us pass security qualifications—ultimately resulting in an even better OPNsense firewall. We always appreciated the professional attitude of the people at Klara and their in-depth knowledge of various parts of the kernel."
— Ad Schellevis,CIO,Deciso B.V.

Economic Research & Consulting | EU | Netherlands 🇳🇱
"We enlisted Klara to help us recover data on a web server that appeared to have a corrupt ZFS pool. While the root cause remains undetermined (faulty drives are suspected), the Klara team was able to recover the data and save our client days, if not weeks, of redevelopment. Communication from the team was good, and they explained what they were doing every step of the way. We won’t hesitate to work with them again in the future."
— Tom Copeland,Founder and President,Eagle.ca

Internet Service Provider | NA | Canada 🇨🇦
“We were struggling with stability issues on our FreeBSD Samba server after some changes to our workload. Klara was able to diagnose the issue, explain the underlying cause, and apply changes to resolve not only the stated issue but addressed a few additional concerns with our system. Their solutions gave us not only the resolution to the problem, but the knowledge to better maintain our own systems for the future.”
— Eduard Tieseler,VP, IT Operations,MetroList Services Inc.

Real Estate Services | NA | United States 🇺🇸
“The developers at Klara Inc. have been outstanding in helping Wasabi resolve ZFS issues and improve performance. Their understanding of ZFS internals is unmatched anywhere in the industry."
— Jeff Flowers,CTO,Wasabi Technologies

Cloud Storage & Data Infrastructure | NA | United States 🇺🇸

Get started with Klara

Development services

Klara's Open Source Development Services provide businesses with tailored, innovative solutions that leverage the power of open source technologies, ensuring seamless integration and optimized performance to drive growth.

Support subscriptions

Klara's Support Subscriptions offer businesses ongoing access to a wealth of expert guidance, technical assistance, and resources.

Challenging the Open Source
Status Quo

Open source doesn’t have to mean compromising on enterprise capability or licensing flexibility. We believe in the ethos of true open source — collaborating with the community and getting the reliability and supportability that enterprises need.

We started by reshaping the FreeBSD open source space, where we became the first reliable partner when it comes to open source development. We continued in the ZFS space, where our knowledge and expertise led to new enterprise features in open source storage. Now, we are reimagining the embedded development space.

Reliable partnerships are key to moving forward in a global world. Klara is that partner for enterprises looking to take open source development to the next level.

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