NetApp Launches Spot Wave by NetApp, and Spot Ocean’s Support of Microsoft Azure Kubernetes Service
March 17, 2021 at 08:00 am EDT
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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; and Spark job right-sizing and monitoring: continuously tune Spark configuration for jobs based on analysis of actual Spark job requirements. The company 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). 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.
NetApp, Inc. specializes in the design, manufacturing and marketing of equipment for managing and storing network data. Net sales break down by family of products and services as follows:
- product sales (52%): file, cache and storage servers, data management, content distribution and information synthesis softwares;
- support services (37.1%): consulting, maintenance, technical assistance and training services;
- cloud services (6.3%): cloud storage and data management services;
- professional services (4.6%).
Net sales are distributed geographically as follows: Americas (54.8%), Europe/Middle East/Africa (31.3%) and Asia/Pacific (13.9%).