Mesosphere Inc., a cloud computing startup, announced the general availability its Datacenter Operating System. A free community edition is only available on the Amazon Web Services Inc.(AWS) cloud.
DCOS, which is based on the Apache Mesos open-source project, treats the entire datacenter’s infrastructure like a new form factor. This goes beyond the traditional mobile device and laptop. It pools all resources, including memory, CPU, storage, and CPU, from multiple distributed servers — whether they are physical, virtual, or cloud-based — to deploy, manage, and maintain apps and workloads of any type, with a focus on container technologies like Docker.
It supports many services, including distributed systems such as Apache Hadoop or Apache Spark that are used in Big Data analytics.
Yesterday, San Francisco-based Mesosphere announced that a DCOS Enterprise Edition was available and that a free cloud-only Community Edition is now available on AWS. This edition will be available this summer on Azure and the Google Cloud Platform. Yesterday, AWS published a blog explaining how DCOS works.
[Click on the image to see a larger view. The Mesosphere DCOS Dashboard (source : Mesosphere). “Mesosphere DCOS is a natural fit: DCOS reduces the administrative tasks involved in managing complex containers or cluster-enabled services. However, it still relies upon properly managed compute and networking blocks like those offered by AWS,” Michael Ruiz, a company executive stated in a blog post. You can extend on-premises clusters and build entirely new Amazon Elastic Compute Cloud (Amazon EC2) installations to take advantage of regional diversity for highly availability (HA), robust network described as code, auto scaling, elastic compute capacity, and other core features on the AWS platform.
The Enterprise Edition is available with a paid licence that offers additional features, support, and services. It can be installed in a private datacenter on-premises running on virtualized or bare-metal Linux servers, in public clouds, or in hybrid configurations that span both of these scenarios.
Mesosphere stated in a statement that the Mesosphere DCOS was built around the Apache Mesos distributed system kernel and provides common services to data scientists, operators, developers, and developers. The Mesos kernel abstracts the underlying infrastructure and provides APIs to manage and schedule resources across large-scale cloud and datacenter environments.
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