Stratoscale Unveils New Version of Cloud Data Center Software

PRESS RELEASE — Herzliya, Israel – July 26, 2016 – Stratoscale, the cloud infrastructure company, today announced the availability of Stratoscale Symphony V2, the second generation of Stratoscale’s comprehensive cloud data center software developed in direct response to customer demands and industry trends. The latest version of Stratoscale Symphony further differentiates itself from other approaches on the market—deploying, managing and scaling cloud infrastructure has never been so achievable.  Stratoscale Symphony continues to add capabilities to support enterprise-grade private cloud deployments, with capabilities that are only available in web-scale environments. For businesses of all sizes looking to augment their aging VMware infrastructure, Stratoscale Symphony can be deployed on any x86 server, and provides an Amazon Web Services (AWS) experience in hours. Since introducing Symphony V1 in December 2015, Stratoscale has been committed to continuous, rapid innovation in cloud infrastructure with major enhancements released every few months.

Upgrading Legacy Infrastructure

Companies face growing challenges with their aging VMware infrastructure, attempting to transition to an agile, flexible and scalable mode of operation. To overcome these difficulties, IT teams need a cloud infrastructure that scales quickly, simplifies operations and delivers the same kind of streamlined user experience they’ve come to expect from their smartphones and web apps. Stratoscale Symphony V2 provides an intuitive, powerful and beautiful experience that supports legacy applications. Time to value is an increasingly important competitive factor for all IT teams, and Stratoscale Symphony shrinks cloud infrastructure deployment to hours and VM, network and storage provisioning to seconds.{ad}

Simple Pricing

Stratoscale Symphony is available on a subscription basis through a rapidly growing network of partners. Minimal investment is achieved through a single-server subscription with a pay-as-you-grow model based on the number of servers that are installed.

Open Frameworks

Stratoscale Symphony is the simplest solution for deploying and managing Kernel-based Virtual Machine (KVM) cloud infrastructure. Stratoscale is committed to open frameworks and is delivering native support for KVM with built-in OpenStack in Stratoscale Symphony. Today, IT teams struggling with long OpenStack deployments can provision OpenStack clouds in minutes using Stratoscale Symphony. Stratoscale is the only company committed to supporting the open technologies of KVM, Docker and OpenStack in a single product.

Multiple Use Cases

With the launch of V2, the company is expanding the …

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… use cases enabled by the Stratoscale Symphony platform, including:

Enterprise private cloud

Enterprise private clouds with a full software-defined data center (SDDC) supporting virtualization, storage virtualization and virtual networking are tightly integrated into a single, easy-to-use product. Stratoscale Symphony is self-balancing, self-healing, and supports multi-tenant and multi-project deployments, self-service portals, and easy provisioning and management of all activities. Breaking the silos between virtualization, networking and storage, a single administrator can manage all aspects of the infrastructure, freeing valuable time to support internal customers and the business. Provisioning time is reduced to minutes. Stratoscale Symphony supports VMware, Hyper-V and KVM workloads.

Service providers

Service Providers are powering their service platform using Stratoscale Symphony to achieve agile, easy-to-deploy and affordable services that are not available using aging VMWare infrastructure. Stratoscale is now supporting service providers in six continents to help them effectively compete with cloud giants and provide value to their enterprise customers.

OpenStack & KVM

OpenStack is becoming increasingly difficult and complex to deploy, maintain and operate. Stratoscale Symphony answers the challenge, providing OpenStack support and compatibility out of the box in minutes. It has never been easier to deploy a production-ready OpenStack framework with Stratoscale Symphony. There is no need to manage a cloud distribution or deal with Puppet or Ansible configuration scripts. Minimal clusters comprised of one server are supported, scaling to hundreds of servers in a single cluster.

Development teams

Development teams have been leading the enterprise transformation towards agility and flexibility in deployment capabilities. As development teams look to harness the flexibility of AWS in their own environments, Stratoscale Symphony is designed to work with Jenkins and CI/CD workflows supporting multiple large dev teams working on diverse projects, sharing the same dev cloud.

Hybrid cloud

As enterprises look to achieve hybrid cloud agility, Stratoscale Symphony is a true enabler for flexibility and scalability.

Big Data

The biggest challenge with deploying big data tools like Hadoop has been …

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… the inflexibility of the existing infrastructure. With multiple teams requiring big data in an organization, teams are increasingly relying on Stratoscale Symphony to provide a flexible environment where storage and compute assets can be dynamically assigned to different big data clusters, and reclaimed and reused when idle.

ROBO

With a minimal footprint of one server, scaling to hundreds in a single cluster, remote management capabilities, and easy upgrade, support and compatibility with all x86 applications, Stratoscale Symphony is ideal for multi-site ROBO deployments. Where real estate is scarce and local IT staff is minimal, Symphony’s small footprint and remote management capability make the best ROBO solution.

Hyperconvergence

Everything in Stratoscale Symphony is hyperconverged. Stratoscale is the only company that converged virtual networking, storage, virtualization and cloud management on a single scale-out stack. Our built-in native KVM hypervisor is designed to scale on any x86 hardware. Symphony uses direct attached hard drives (HDDs) and solid state drives (SSDs) to provide scale-out storage as part of the solution.

Stratoscale Symphony V2 New Capabilities

Stratoscale Symphony V2 introduces significant new capabilities to the Symphony architecture, addressing customer requirements and continuing Stratoscale’s commitment to provide the best cloud infrastructure to service providers, enterprise IT and development teams.

Dynamic Cluster Scaling

Quota Management Tools

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Remote Management

Hyper-V Support

Data Protection

Resilient, Worry-Free IT

Unified Storage

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Multiple Storage Pools

Policy Engine

Microservices

Beautiful User Interface (UI)

Industry Quotes

“As companies embark on the journey to software-defined infrastructures, they require a solution that combines an ease-of-use experience with the foundational elements needed to manage the enterprise cloud data center,” said Swapnadeep Nayak, Industry Analyst at Frost and Sullivan. “Stratoscale is answering this market demand by democratizing the cloud with all the capabilities and features necessary to provide value back to businesses through continuous innovation.”

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… data center or risk losing control of their applications and data to the public cloud,” said Ariel Maislos, CEO of Stratoscale. “Stratoscale is responding to this critical need with rapid and ongoing improvements that will provide our customers with access to the latest private cloud technologies and functionalities.”

Partner Program

Stratoscale Symphony V2 is available today through a growing network of partners.

With over 20 global reseller partners in the PartnerFirst program, Stratoscale is committed to helping our value-add partners provide fast time-to-value response to the emerging need of private clouds in enterprises.

Multiple Reference Architectures

Stratoscale Symphony is supported today with pre-built and pre-tested reference architectures and configuration from Lenovo, SuperMicro, HPE and Cisco.

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About Stratsocale
Stratoscale is the cloud infrastructure company, providing comprehensive cloud infrastructure software solutions for service providers, enterprise IT and development teams. The company’s comprehensive cloud data center software, Stratoscale Symphony, can be deployed in minutes on commodity x86 servers, providing an Amazon Web Services (AWS) experience with the ability to augment aging VMware infrastructure. Stratoscale was named a “Cool Vendor in Servers and Virtualization” by Gartner and is backed by over $70M from leading investors including: Battery Ventures, Bessemer Venture Partners, Cisco, Intel, Qualcomm Ventures, SanDisk and Leslie Ventures. For more information, visit http://www.stratoscale.com/ and follow us on Twitter @stratoscale.