[9] After fifteen months of development, their cloud platform entered a Public Beta programme, with a full launch on 1 April 2011.

[11] In 2011, the company received angel investments from Australian entrepreneur and PIPE Networks co-founder Stephen Baxter[12][13] and American Gordon Bell of DEC and Microsoft Research.

[23] Prominent resellers include: OrionVM uses the Xen hypervisor to virtualise multiple machines (referred to as "instances") on the same hardware.

[21] Linux instances use paravirtualisation for reduced overhead by default, with Windows Server being deployed using hardware-assisted virtualisation (HVM).

OrionVM's platform took design cues from supercomputers by placing hypervisor storage and compute on the same physical servers.

To end users, the base of the platform consists of a web panel, where customers are able to deploy virtual machines.