DigitalOcean
Holdings, Inc. announced
the launch of DigitalOcean Managed Kafka, a new,
fully managed data streaming platform as a service offering for Apache Kafka.
DigitalOcean Managed Kafka helps small and medium-sized businesses across
industries, including video streaming, the Internet of Things (IoT), data
analytics, gaming, and eCommerce, access and process data streams in real time
while eliminating the complexity associated with the Kafka administration.
Through this offering and other enhancements across DigitalOcean's portfolio,
startups and tech entrepreneurs can more easily grow their businesses in the
cloud.
"While Kafka is the gold standard for data streaming, it
frequently presents technical challenges for smaller businesses with budget and
resource limitations. We are excited to introduce a solution that makes this technology
more accessible and meets DigitalOcean's standard for simplicity"
"While Kafka is the gold standard for data streaming, it
frequently presents technical challenges for smaller businesses with budget and
resource limitations. We are excited to introduce a solution that makes this
technology more accessible and meets DigitalOcean's standard for simplicity,"
said Megan Wood, Chief Strategy & Product Officer at DigitalOcean. "By
reducing the burden of implementing a new platform, companies can shift their
focus away from the complexity of managing their data streaming services and
get back to building apps that differentiate their business."
As businesses receive higher amounts of data inputs, the ability
to rapidly capture and process this data becomes crucial. Thousands of
companies, including over 80%
of Fortune 100 companies, rely on Kafka to optimize their data streams and
provide leaders with insights that inform decision-making. With DigitalOcean
Managed Kafka, startups and SMBs can benefit from the ability to scale up and
down clusters with ease while setting up alerts for proactive maintenance.
Additionally, DigitalOcean customers can expect end-to-end security via private
networking and data encryption along with cost-effective, predictable pricing
starting at $147 for a three-node cluster.
"DigitalOcean's Managed Kafka offering has been a game-changer
for us at Datacake," said Lukas Klein, Chief Technical Officer at Datacake. "By
taking care of the operational aspects of running our Kafka cluster, we have
been able to focus our attention on what really matters - building a great
product. With this new service, we were able to migrate seamlessly to an
event-based architecture while maintaining the highest levels of operational
security."
Alongside DigitalOcean Managed Kafka, DigitalOcean has been
making investments in its product and infrastructure offerings to provide peace
of mind, increased productivity, and more affordable solutions to SMBs and
startups. Some of those recent updates include:
- GPUs with the
acquisition of Paperspace - The computing power needed
for training AI models and deploying at scale
- Premium
CPU-Optimized Droplets - Higher outbound network speeds,
higher performance, and faster disk writes than standard Droplets
- Enhanced
memory and storage for Basic Premium Droplets - More
flexibility with a wider choice of virtual machines
- Low-cost
support plans for every size of business - Eight-hour
response times for all issues, regardless of severity
- Object Storage
in the Bangalore data center - Increased performance with
compute and storage in one location
In addition, over the coming quarters, DigitalOcean will unveil
the following enhancements and capabilities to
continue to make DigitalOcean the cloud of choice for SMBs and startups:
- More
flexible storage offerings - Effortlessly accommodate dynamic
storage requirements with Scalable Storage for Managed Databases, a
cost-effective solution that helps businesses expand their data footprints with
confidence
- Faster,
frequent, and comprehensive Backups - Ability to create daily Droplet
backups that are differential, significantly reducing the time required to
create them
- Better
performance for a range of products - Extending the premium variant to
the General Purpose line of Droplets, providing newer generation CPUs, faster
NVME drives, and up to 10 Gbps of outbound data transfer speeds making them
ideal for running e-commerce, consumer, and SaaS apps
DigitalOcean Managed
Kafka is available now in all major data center regions.