Global cloud-led, data-centric software company, NetApp announced the launch of Spot Wave by NetApp, and Spot Ocean's support
of Microsoft Azure Kubernetes Service. Together, these products provide
customers with leading solutions for simple, scalable and efficient
infrastructure for cloud-native applications.
Wave
automates the provisioning, deployment, autoscaling and optimization
for running Apache Spark big data applications on Kubernetes in the
cloud and helps to reduce cloud waste and costs by up to 90%. Using Wave
as a turnkey product, organizations can deploy Spark environments
faster and more easily, and focus on putting their data to work knowing
that Wave is ensuring their infrastructure is continuously optimized for
availability, performance and cost.
Wave is built on Spot's AI-based engine, using the same proven technology as Spot Ocean. Wave provides:
- Cost optimization: Wave
runs Spark jobs on containerized infrastructure using an intelligent
mix of spot, on-demand and reserved instances, affording customers up to
90% cost savings on cloud infrastructure.
- Serverless infrastructure & Spark-aware autoscaling: Built-in
autoscaling matches the right type and size of compute instances to
Spark jobs based on workload requirements to maximize performance and
efficiency.
- Spark job right-sizing and monitoring: Continuously tune Spark configuration for jobs based on analysis of actual Spark job requirements.
"Organizations
are rapidly adopting Kubernetes to deliver cloud-native applications
with greater speed and agility, not only for stateless services but also
for big data applications," said Amiram Shachar, vice president and
general manager of Spot by NetApp. "The necessity for organizations to
balance cloud infrastructure cost, performance and availability for
optimal efficiency is complex and time-consuming. Spot Wave and Ocean
are solving that problem by providing a serverless experience for Spark
and ensuring their infrastructure is continuously optimized."
NetApp
also announced that Ocean, Spot's serverless container engine and the
foundation of Spot Wave, now supports Microsoft Azure Kubernetes Service
(AKS), adding to its support for AWS ECS (Elastic Container Service)
and EKS (Elastic Kubernetes Service), and Google's GKE (Google
Kubernetes Engine).
"Wave
builds on the capabilities that we love in Ocean, focusing on the
specific needs of big data applications," said Gal Aviv, chief
technology officer at Fyber. "It will be very powerful to be able to
plug Spark applications into Wave. The solution also has the amazing
value of executing jobs with existing tools and potentially spin up the
right infrastructure to power intensive ML applications."
NetApp
and Spot by NetApp have deep histories of involvement and experience in
Kubernetes and the Kubernetes community. With ongoing investments in
NetApp and Spot by NetApp products for Kubernetes, NetApp provides the
leading solutions and capabilities for application-driven infrastructure
and data management needed by companies to run critical cloud-native
applications.
More information on Spot Wave is available online at https://spot.io/products/wave.