Diamanti today
announced the launch of Diamanti Spektra, the first hybrid cloud Kubernetes
control plane focused on application and data persistence spanning public and
private clouds.
To date,
infrastructure vendor solutions for hybrid cloud have focused on the deployment
of Kubernetes pods, while providing no answers for the far more complex
application and data constraints for workload migration between on-premises and
cloud-based Kubernetes clusters. For customers to run container workloads in
production, migrating those workloads along with their underlying data are
essential for data protection and disaster recovery.
"The main
use case* that businesses cite for hybrid is being able to continuously move
workloads to the right environment (best execution venue) for the sake of cost,
performance, security - or whatever their priority is," said William
Fellows, from 451 Research.
Diamanti
Spektra can manage the full lifecycle of containerized workloads across
on-premises and public clouds, moving applications and data between Kubernetes
clusters as necessary. This allows enterprise customers to deploy to the most
appropriate infrastructure driven by one or more factors, such as cost control,
access to specific features, high availability and disaster recovery.
"This is
exactly what every enterprise pursuing containers and Kubernetes has in mind --
simple cost control and application portability between on-premises and any
public cloud of their choice," said Diamanti's CEO, Tom Barton. "Everything
else we've seen to date requires additional layers of virtualization, and only
addresses the deployment part of running applications. Diamanti Spektra is
several generations ahead of any other product on the market tackling real
migration use cases for hybrid cloud."
"Diamanti's
strategic focus in product development in the earliest days of the company at
the x86 server architecture level allowed it to create the industry's most open
standards-based approach to container infrastructure that gives customers the
cost advantages of ‘bare metal' while also delivering performance advantages
via hardware offload," said Brian Waldon, VP of Product at Diamanti. "Every
other vendor in the space started with software solutions that simply can't do
what's necessary for true hybrid portability."
Diamanti
Spektra combines the power of Diamanti's hardware-accelerated x86 platform
along with cloud-based infrastructure to provide Kubernetes-as-a-Service. It
enables high availability and disaster recovery of workloads and application
data. Diamanti Spektra is in tech preview. If interested in participating,
please visit https://diamanti.com/product/beta/ to register.