Start-Up Profile: Datawise.io

HQs
San Jose, CA

Founded in
2014

Main executives

Jeff Chou, co-founder and CEO: was senior director of engineering at Cisco where he led development of the Unified Compute System and Nexus Data Center Switching products, had other start-up experience from Nuova, Nemo, Sanera Systems (acquired in 2013 by McData acquired by Brocade in 2006), and Granite.
Gopal Sharma, CTO: previously principal engineer at Cisco, distinguished engineer at Symantec/Veritas, software engineer at Amdahl
Amitava Guha, co-founder: formerly at Cisco, Nuova, Symantec, Topspin, Packet Engines, SGI, Sun and Amdahl
Luis Robles, co-founder and VP marketing

Number of employees
15

Technology
Network and storage solutions for Linux containers

Products description
The problem is that Linux containers are great for dividing the CPU/memory resources on individual servers between several containers, but managing the networking and storage configurations needed to run more than a few containers on more than a few servers remains complex. Datawise.io wants to simplify moving Docker, riding a huge wave of hype, into production.

Project 6 is a software to deploy and manage Docker containers across a cluster of hosts, focused on simplifying on-premises environments. It integrates Docker and Kubernetes with additional capabilities into a solution that helps pack stateless and stateful applications onto the same environment with:

Highly-available cluster management, to aggregate resources
and coordinate operations across multiple hosts

Simplified networking, so that containers maintain distinct IP network identities independently from hosts, and can easily locate each other
Persistent and temporary storage volumes, to make efficient use of local disks and minimize the need for external storage
Dynamic scheduling augmented with network and storage, so that resources available are efficiently utilized with minimal administration

The Project 6 preview, available for download, makes it easy to set-up a private environment similar to Google’s Container Engine or Amazon’s Container Service.

Released date
June 22, 2015

Price
Free alpha preview

Roadmap
Additional enterprise features. Chou also said: “We are providing a preview of Project 6 now to get early community feedback which will be incorporated into other projects our team is working on.”

Applications
Stateless and stateful applications being containerized

Target market
Enterprise IT

Competitors
Including Flocker by ClusterHQ and Rancher by Rancher Labs