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KubeCon 2021 Q&A: Morpheus Will Showcase Its Unified Platform for Containers, Infrastructure as Code (IaC), Virtual Machines, and Automation

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KubeCon + CloudNativeCon 2021.  Will you be in attendance?  If so, VMblog invites you to swing by and check out the Morpheus booth in the sponsor showcase.

Read this exclusive pre-show interview between VMblog and Martez Reed, Director of Technical Marketing at Morpheus, a leader in hybrid cloud application orchestration.

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VMblog:  Can you give us the high-level rundown of your company's technology offerings?  Explain to readers who you are, what you do, what problems you solve, etc.

Martez Reed:  Morpheus is an industry leading Cloud Management Platform (CMP) that helps organizations deploy and manage workloads in hybrid cloud environments. The problem that Morpheus solves is the complexity of hybrid cloud in large enterprise organizations that have dozens of tools and platforms that need to be integrated in the provisioning and management of workloads.

VMblog:  And while talking about your products, can you give readers a few examples of how your offerings are unique?  What are your differentiators?

Reed:  We believe that Morpheus is uniquely positioned to deliver containerized and non-containerized workloads in an automated fashion. Enterprises are faced with wanting to adopt containerization but are forced to continue deploying and managing non-containerized workloads. The value is having a platform that provides a framework for integrating those different technologies and processes.

VMblog:  If an attendee likes what they see and hear at your booth, what message about your product can you send them back with to sell their boss on your technology?

Reed:  Morpheus provides a unified platform for containers, Infrastructure as Code (IaC), virtual machines, and automation. As organizations increasingly need to manage distributed workloads in a hybrid cloud environment, having a central platform helps simplify the management of distinct workloads.

VMblog:  Normally at the KubeCon event, sponsors are showcasing new products or new product updates and features for the first time.  Do you have anything new that you've either recently announced or plan to discuss in more detail at the event?  Can we get a sneak peek?

Reed:  One of the features we're excited about showcasing during the event is the ability to provision AKS, EKS and GKE clusters from within the platform to simplify the management of Kubernetes across public clouds providers. There's also open-source projects that we're working on like the Morpheus operator that enables non-Kubernetes workloads to be provisioned with a Kubernetes manifest such a vSphere virtual machine through Morpheus.

VMblog:  At what stage do you feel we are at with regard to containers?  Is there anything still holding it back?  Or keeping it from a wider distribution?

Reed:  Many organizations are still in the planning stage of adopting containers and Kubernetes. One of the challenges that organizations are facing is provisioning Kubernetes clusters that are production ready. This means deploying not only the cluster but all the supporting management components and getting those configured. This typically results in a lot of bespoke glue code that ties everything together as part of the build process.

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Published Thursday, September 23, 2021 7:31 AM by David Marshall
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