Netframe
Netframe
by NeonDynamics

Built by engineers who felt the pain.

Neon Dynamics is an Australian software company founded by two virtualisation veterans with a combined 35+ years of experience designing and managing VMware environments.

Why we built Netframe

We'd spent our careers building on VMware. We knew it inside out, the architecture, the tooling, the ecosystem. We'd built vSphere environments for banks, hospitals, governments, and enterprises of every size.

Then Broadcom bought VMware. Overnight, the licensing model changed beyond recognition. Customers we'd helped for years were facing fourfold cost increases. The relationship between vendor and customer fundamentally broke down.

We looked at the alternatives. While options like Proxmox seemed appealing at first glance, our customers, mid-market IT teams, infrastructure managers, operations people, needed something that felt familiar, provided an easy migration pathway, and came with the support and documentation they expected from an enterprise platform.

So we built it. Netframe is what we would have wanted as VMware customers. Honest, capable, well-documented, well-supported virtualisation. Built on proven KVM, priced fairly and proudly made in Melbourne.

Timeline

2008-9

Both founders begin careers in enterprise virtualisation with VMware VI3.5

2010

Combined experience grows across vSphere design and large-scale implementations

2023

Broadcom acquires VMware. Licence costs skyrocket.

2024 Q2

After much deliberation, founders leave their senior roles at major US tech company to build Netframe

The Next day

Neon Dynamics Pty Ltd incorporated in Melbourne, Australia. Development begins.

2024 Q4

Pilot installations of Netframe Core go live

2025 Q2

Pilot installations of Core, Manager and production clusters go live

2025 Q4

Netframe goes GA

Our values

Transparency

Published pricing, open roadmap, honest communication. No surprises.

Simplicity

Powerful software should be approachable. We obsess over the user experience.

Customer-first

Our support team are our engineers. Real expertise, real accountability.

Australian-built

We're proud of where we come from and who we build for.