Today, Morpheus Data announced it has been chosen as the multi-cloud
management platform for a strategic EU-wide project which also included
technologies from Morpheus alliance partners such as VMware, Dell
Technologies, and T-Systems.
This announcement comes at the end of a fiscal year that saw Morpheus
Data grow revenue over 3x and increase sales coverage by 6x in response
to increased customer, channel partner, and service-provider demand for
DevOps-ready multi-cloud management.
According to 451
Research, over 68% of organizations have a hybrid or multi-cloud
approach to service delivery1. Unfortunately, while agility
is the ultimate outcome desired by hybrid IT, increasing cloud and
operational complexity has resulted in major organizational friction.
Application developers and data scientists are constantly waiting weeks
for operations teams to provision services.
"IT has a mandate to move faster but cloud and automation complexity
has made that virtually impossible," said Brad Parks, VP of Business
Development, Morpheus Data. "Morpheus provides a simple and
future-proof platform to deliver on-demand services by orchestrating the
tools customers already have on whatever clouds they choose."
Enabling instant access to satellite data for big data applications
The European Organization for the Exploitation of Meteorological
Satellites (EUMETSAT) supplies climate-related satellite data to its
European Member States and other users worldwide. With high resolution
data now reaching petabyte scale, it is no longer efficient to simply
transmit data to consumers. Modern data scientists need to move faster
which means bringing their workloads to the data.
To address this big data challenge, EUMETSAT has established a strategic
roadmap for its future Data Services and awarded the design and
deployment of a next-generation multi-cloud stack to major industry
consortia. However, one of the most challenging elements of the project
was the development of an agnostic cloud management layer and service
catalog to enable instant access to resources and the orchestration of
heterogeneous technology components.
After an exhaustive look at available automation and orchestration
technologies, Morpheus was selected as the multi-cloud management
platform for the EUMETSAT project based on the company's experience
managing large complex multi-cloud environments as well as the tight
engineering partnership with Morpheus and the project team.
"Our vision is to create a one-stop-shop and self-service user
experience for those who rely on our data every day," said Lothar
Wolf, Data Services Competence Area Manager at EUMETSAT. "Morpheus is
remarkable because they combine substantial innovation and engineering
expertise with a genuine desire to support our success."
As part of the EUMETSAT project, Morpheus
worked with Dell Technologies to integrate Isilon and ECS for file
and object storage as well as the Avamar data protection platform. These
unstructured data integrations, together with connectivity into VMware,
OpenStack, and other public cloud platforms will help EUMETSAT deliver
on its self-service vision.