Today, Morpheus Data announced updates to its
unified multi-cloud orchestration platform which will enable customers to
develop new applications faster with less administrative overhead on virtually
any cloud or infrastructure.
Highlights include:
- Multi-cloud
expansion to Alibaba and AWS GovCloud
- Network
automation and SDN support for Cisco ACI
- Global
search of all connected clouds and infrastructure
According to 451 Research, the cloud-enabling technology market
will approach $40 billion by 2020, growing at 13% CAGR. While 59% of organizations
have a majority of IT on-premises today, the balance is expected to swing
off-premises in the next two years.
"Transformation requires the right underpinning cloud platform," says
William Fellows VP of Research, 451 Research. "Unified offerings like
Morpheus reduce tool sprawl and simplify provisioning across an
increasingly diverse ecosystem of technologies and suppliers."
The rapid shift to hybrid IT coupled with increasing pressure from
development teams creates a challenge for resource constrained IT
departments. Morpheus bridges the gap between digital business
expectations and IT service delivery through a systematic approach to cloud
optimization, governance, automation, and production
operations. With these updates, enterprises, governments, and
service providers can provide simple self-service app deployment faster than
ever before.
"Customers often turn to us when other multi-cloud automation
projects fail to deliver," said Brad Parks, VP of Business Development,
Morpheus Data. "With Morpheus, they find a breadth of third-party
integrations and native capabilities that narrow tools from traditional vendors
simply can't match."
Expanding cloud coverage for new geographies and markets
68% of organizations report they plan on using more than one cloud
service, which can lead to tool sprawl if organizations do not standardize
management. This multi-cloud challenge is
amplified by the constantly changing cloud provider landscape. One
example is Alibaba Cloud, the leading cloud provider in China, and one of the
fastest growing public clouds in the world. With the new Morpheus
integration into Alibaba, global organizations can standardize
all public and private cloud operations to assure compliance and reduce cost.
Security and compliance is of particular importance to public
sector organizations. AWS GovCloud is an isolated AWS region that
allows U.S. government agencies and customers to safely move sensitive
workloads into the cloud while addressing regulatory
requirements. Now with support for AWS GovCloud, Morpheus customers
can eliminate management silos that may have been associated with these
specialized accounts.
For VMware customers and service providers who want to simplify
multi-cloud orchestration and avoid tool lock-in, Morpheus has expanded support
for vCloud Director and enhanced performance with VMware
vSphere. These integrations enable forward-looking organizations to
improve the ROI from existing VMware investments while providing an open path
to cloud-native technologies such as containers and serverless computing.
Eliminating network provisioning headaches with SDN support
Morpheus already counts a number of Fortune 100 enterprises as
customers and it's clear from those discussions that network provisioning is a
major obstacle in cloud automation. Extending self-service
deployment to the network requires programmable fabrics such as Cisco
ACI. For customers with large Cisco deployments, ACI offers a
framework to automate workflows and secure application endpoints.
Unlike some cloud platforms that claim integrations but require
significant script development, Morpheus integrations are built-in and
available out-of-the box. Now, customers can inventory Cisco ACI
configurations, create networks, bridge domains, and provision into new
endpoint groups on the fly directly from the Morpheus console or API. Morpheus
already provides this level of integration with Cisco UCS for composing bare
metal servers.
"Automating infrastructure provisioning and making thousands of
instances production ready required deep partnership with Morpheus Data which
paid off with over 160x improvement in delivery speed," said
Anish Abraham, Cloud Automation Architect at AstraZeneca. "The
addition of Cisco ACI on top of SaltStack, ServiceNow, and AI-based guidance
has proved we made the right choice in unified orchestration for our enterprise
cloud."
The Morpheus networking module has also been enhanced with deeper
third-party integration to improve enterprise agility. Updates
include:
- Improved
performance and syncing into Bluecat and Infoblox for IP management and DNS services.
- Openstack and Microsoft
Hyper-V networking improvements
including multi-network, static IP and IP pool support
- F5
load balancer integration now
enables virtual servers, nodes, and pools to be created, edited, and
deleted directly to save time.
Enhancing intelligent orchestration at scale with global search
The Morpheus unified orchestration platform brings together
CloudOps and DevOps teams while providing a single source of visibility to
prevent shadow IT and simplify management.
Today, Morpheus extends its vision for unified multi-cloud
orchestration with a new global search capability which enables the entire
control plane of connected clouds and infrastructure to be instantly accessed
from a single interface. This new level of visibility provides rapid
short-cut access to any element of a customer's multi-cloud deployment which
can simplify troubleshooting in complex deployments and give hours of
productivity back to the business. Administrators can search by
clouds, domains, groups, virtual images and hosts or by infrastructure
integrations including load balancers and networks.
This latest update comes on the heels of last year's introduction
of predictive analytics to help lower cloud
costs by 30 percent or more. By applying machine learning to
millions of data points across hybrid infrastructure customers can right-size
virtual machine instances, apply intelligent power schedules and more.