Introducing CloudNatix Platform into General Availability!
CloudNatix Platform simplifies management, provides cost & ops intelligence, and dramatically boosts cost optimization across fleets of diverse infrastructure operations—VMs or containers, legacy or greenfield, on-prem or cloud-based—all delivered as a service.
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Today is a big day for the CloudNatix team and the broader CloudNatix family - our employees, their families, our investors and most of all, our global enterprise customers! It’s a day we’ve long been looking forward to, and a day that we’d like to celebrate with you.
This morning we released CloudNatix Platform in General Availability, launching an Industry First ‘Planet-Scale Cluster Manager,’ delivered as a Service, to Market, Solving Problem of Operating Diverse Fleets of Cloud and Kubernetes Deployments.
This release is big news for us, and exciting news for you too! The CloudNatix Platform is the first offering that connects to customers’ cloud accounts, on-premise datacenter deployments and existing virtual machine (VM) or Kubernetes clusters, then aggregates these resources into pools of compute resources across multiple clusters. The CloudNatix Platform then autopilots capacity optimization and common infrastructure operations, bringing hyperscale infrastructure efficiencies to enterprises worldwide wrestling with the challenges of managing a global, diverse fleet of compute resources.
CloudNatix Platform has been in development for nearly two years, under the guidance of a world-class engineering team, partnering with equally world-class early adopter enterprise users. While I am thrilled to share key capabilities of our offering, I wanted to first get some outside perspective. We’ve been partnering with enterprises across the globe, including Tohshihiko Kono, who is a Managing Director of Technology with CO-OP Tohoku Japan, representing one of the largest consumer cooperative organizations in Japan. Here’s what he has to say about it:
“CloudNatix has helped us simplify our Cloud operations from the start by providing a unified efficiency dashboard for operations and cost management”
What’s the problem here?
We all know the story: enterprises moved to cloud. They learned about data center virtualization and multi-tenancy and self service developer provisioning. Along came Linux Containers, then Kubernetes, and they moved to cloud native, where they learned about automation, DevOps, and infrastructure as code.
Now, even though most enterprises are still figuring out how to move to cloud and do cloud native at scale, hand in hand with this transformation comes a whole new set of challenges around multi cloud and multi k8s control, together with cost intelligence and cost optimization issues. Lack of cost and operational visibility across disparate pools of compute infrastructure as well as additional operational complexity shows up on top of the list.
Suddenly, enterprises are faced with managing the variable costs of public cloud infrastructure: optimizing compute infrastructure, utilization, and capacity to rein in cloud spend. It’s an issue Sarah Wang and Martin Cassado recently took head on in their research on the Trillion-Dollar Paradox, as it no longer is an “IT” problem, but rather a true business problem.
The Solve: CloudNatix Platform
The multi-cloud, multi-cluster, planet-scale architecture that hyperscale and webscale companies are using is the same one enterprises will need to adopt tomorrow to remain competitive. Alternatively, these enterprises will cede market share and relevance to the next webscale innovator to disrupt an industry. The webscale model relies on building multi cloud native apps that span the globe running on “Autopilot.” As enterprises go on this journey, they will have to deal with unified access management, controlling multiple clusters, resource management and more, all across multiple regions and clusters of capacity, aggregating vs disaggregating cluster resources, using logical services that span clouds & clusters versus namespaces that span a single cluster.
Enterprises will need a planet scale cluster manager to do this, something that can observe costs, operations, performance, and SLAs across clusters, across public and private clouds, spanning VMS and Kubernetes on a single pane of glass so they can operate above the clouds in an automated, easy to use way. What enterprises will need are tools like machine learning algorithms to automate and optimize at scale, bin packing technology to intelligently and automatically optimize across a planet scale infrastructure fleet, and high levels of automation either with humans in the loop or out. That’s how hyperscalers and webscalers are already doing it.
“This is a global cluster management system built by the team that helped create containers and hyperscale cluster management platforms. What we’ve built is designed to tackle the biggest inefficiencies in cloud today, as both VMs and cloud-native applications consume compute resources, resulting in massive cloud bills and cloud waste,” said Rohit Seth, the co-creator of Linux Containers and the CEO and founder at CloudNatix. “From compute resource optimization, to handling availability degradation, and everything in between, the mission of CloudNatix is to accelerate innovation with efficient infrastructure by leveraging automation to reduce cost and human toil, giving developers and DevOps engineers much better visibility into their global compute environment across multiple clusters, while freeing them from low-level plumbing
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Key Capabilities of the CloudNatix Platform
Cluster management — Federated Global Cluster Manager is a cloud managed, global cluster management system with enterprise-grade security, based on Kubernetes that works.
Dashboard — Global Dashboard provides a common view of cost and operational intelligence across your multiple cloud and Kubernetes environments, including AWS, EKS, Azure, AKS, Google Cloud, GKE and many more.
ML-powered insights engine — Insights generates recommendations that allow you to easily create a detailed picture of your Kubernetes and VM workload to better understand where your money goes. It leverages the power of machine learning to provide a continuous model for optimization by better sizing workloads. Mis-sized workloads will be resized automatically.
Multi-cluster operations manager — Multi-cluster Operations Manager provides unified management experience across K8s, CloudNatix and VM clusters. Operations Manager also provides a single pane of glass view for workloads running on multi-cloud infrastructure. One can reduce MTTR by using operational insights from the machine data generated by the underlying infrastructure.
Workload and infrastructure autopilot — Autopilot enables you to continuously adjust your application deployment with CloudNatix Insights recommendations. It supports workload cost savings up to 50%, increases SLO performance 15-50% and simplifies the task of scaling your applications, so you can focus on other important tasks.
Logical Multi-Tenancy — Logical Organizations and Namespaces simplifies organizational management by grouping multiple clusters into a federated organization. Organizations can be federated across regions to provide a complete picture of the organization, which significantly simplifies identifying relationships between clusters and efficiently managing access, quotas, budgets, tags, namespaces and extensions across a global or multi-region organization.
Logical access — Logical Access across clouds and clusters allows you to log in into the console or logs of any pod across any cluster using a single click, helping you find needles in a haystack of pods. After you login, all your actions are executed as if you have been attached to that pod from beginning without having to go through the jitters of SSH tunneling and port forwarding.
CLUI™ — Command Line User Interface (CLUI) is a hybrid UI with CLI that lets developers develop and operate against a globally federated set of compute resources like it is one warehouse-scale computer, which aids in quickly building traditional, cloud-native and multi cloud-native services that are auto-scale and self-optimizing with built-in high availability and fault tolerance.
Support for a wide variety of platforms, including:
All modern versions of Linux: Redhat, CentOS, and Ubuntu
All modern version of Windows: Windows 2015, Windows 2019 and more
On-cloud: Amazon AWS and EKS, Microsoft Azure and AKS, Google GCP and GKE
On-premise: Bare metal and VMware (coming soon!)
Get up and running with CloudNatix
Sign up for our upcoming webinar with the Co-Creator of Linux Containers, Rohit Seth.
Read more about planet-scale cluster management.
Request for a private demo of CloudNatix Enterprise.
Request early access to the CloudNatix Community Edition for Windows and Linux VMs, as well as Kubernetes Clusters, free at www.autok8s.dev.
Join the Autopilot Community page to learn more about hyperscale efficiency for enterprises at www.autopilot.sh.
