OpenDrives, a supplier of software-defined information storage and information providers, has launched Astraeus, a cloud-native information providers platform. Astraeus helps IT departments inside enterprise organizations to configure, retailer, orchestrate, handle, safe and deploy their mission-critical purposes throughout dynamic environments, whether or not in on-premises, cloud or hybrid environments.
In accordance with OpenDrives, Astraeus drives each operational efficiencies in addition to value financial savings over cloud-dependent workflows and information environments. First previewed at this yr’s NAB Present, Astraeus addresses the pricey actuality of knowledge fragmentation and sprawl that enterprises throughout varied industries face at present. Beginning this month, certified candidates will achieve unique entry to the preliminary launch of Astraeus.
“Conventional information infrastructures, whether or not cloud or on-premises, have usually been blamed for elevated prices, lack of efficiency and excessive complexity. Infrastructure has additionally been blamed for leaving information life cycle challenges unresolved as information continues to sprawl and workflows proceed to get extra difficult. At OpenDrives, we expect infrastructure has not stored tempo with workflow calls for as a result of infrastructure is just not the appropriate answer for the job. This isn’t about the place to maneuver your information. It’s about what you are able to do along with your information. Final result-based information providers are the reply,” says OpenDrives CEO Sean Lee.
Constructed on cloud-native ideas, Astraeus brings the flexibleness, familiarity and expertise of the cloud again on-premises, the place efficiency and workflow administration capabilities are key. The platform’s Kubernetes-based structure and cluster-first design allow IT departments to deploy their total cloud workflows (with out having to reengineer something) and entry and handle disparate information shops — all from a unified namespace that may simply scale out when the necessity arises.
“The cloud essentially modified how we strategy infrastructure, and that’s been extremely invaluable,” Lee continues. “However what we’re seeing now’s that organizations have discovered sufficient about their precise workflows to make smarter selections about the place purposes ought to run. The query has shifted from ‘Ought to we go to the cloud?’ to ‘The place does every workflow carry out finest?’ Astraeus provides them information entry and providers to reply that query with out creating workflow disruption.”
Astraeus handles demanding workflows throughout data-intensive industries by tackling each information life cycle stage — from creation to ingestion, storage and efficiency, orchestration and unification, governance and compliance, consumption and operations, and safety and retention. Astraeus’ built-in providers embody high-performance storage administration, easy useful resource allocation and orchestration, versatile deployment and scalability, clever software and cluster administration, information optimization and tiering, and information governance and safety — all whereas managed from a unified information airplane.
The preliminary launch will ship a choose set of knowledge providers, with steady enhancements deliberate in upcoming updates.