How Anzo Maximizes the Power of Kubernetes for the Modern Enterprise Data Fabric
Many enterprise applications, however, are by necessity much more complex, made up of multiple containers that handle different aspects of the application. Some containers handle computing, others are for databases, workflows, storage and so on. In this much more complicated scenario, app containers are a lot less like shipping containers on a barge and more like passengers on a cruise ship, all wanting to do different activities at the same time.
Somehow these multiple containers need to be managed into a functional whole. That's where Kubernetes comes in. If your containers are passengers on a cruise, then Kubernetes is the cruise director you need!1
Kubernetes provides a critical new level of orchestration across containers, automatically deploying, connecting and optimizing the many containers that comprise a high-demand enterprise application.
Read on and discover how Anzo's use of Kubernetes is central to Anzo's highly flexible data fabric architecture.
Here at Cambridge Semantics, we are actively utilizing the container orchestration power of Kubernetes for the Anzo platform. Anzo provides modern data discovery and integration that makes the enterprise data fabric possible. Anzo enables users to quickly integrate and access new combinations of diverse data β structured and unstructured alike β using semantic graph models to support advanced analytics and business insight.
Anzo provides enterprises with a data fabric platform that delivers accelerated data integration, whether that data is structured or unstructured, internal or external. To make this happen, Anzo must enable dynamic onboarding, blending, and microservice delivery of arbitrarily large combinations of graph-based integrated data that match user specifications on demand. Anzo deploys on Kubernetes to support these critical capabilities, by automating the scaling and management of the computing resources needed across the enterprise, across multiple platforms. This strategy has been advocated by leading analysts; notably Gartner:
The separation of storage and compute is becoming the key to managing data across a hybrid/multi-cloud environment. This means that data fabrics now require automation to manage and orchestrate their data pipelines that often traverse organizational boundaries and ecosystems.
~ Gartner2
The benefits of Kubernetes with Anzo to maximize enterprise scalability, agility and cost effectiveness are compelling. Here is just a sampling of the benefits delivered by Anzo's use of Kubernetes for your organization:
Kubernetes is deservedly gaining rapid adoption by infrastructure and DevOps professionals for its unprecedented ease in automatically deploying, scaling, and managing containerized applications at massive scale. We invite you to discover the details on how Anzo has leveraged the power of Kubernetes to provide you with the leading modern data integration and discovery platform that will make your organization's voyage towards a new transformative enterprise data fabric a successful one.
(1) Serdar Yegulalp, Kubernetes vs. Docker: Understand Containers and Orchestration, InfoWorld (30 Oct 2019).
(2) Ehtisham Zaidi et al, Data Fabrics Add Augmented Intelligence to Modernize Your Data Integration, Gartner (17 Dec 2019). Available for download from Cambridge Semantics.