Morpheus Data Enhances MultiCloud Management Platform in Support of Hybrid IT Projects at Large Enterprises and Service Providers

Morpheus Data LLC rolled out enhancements to its next-gen multi-cloud management platform (CMP) in support of hybrid IT projects at large enterprises and service providers.

Having recently received a Best of VMworld Award for Agile Operations and Automation and achieving the top vendor ranking on WhatMatrix.com for CMP, this announcement reinforces the company’ applicability for commercial platforms like VMware as well as open source and cloud-native frameworks.

Highlights include:

• Expanded OpenStack support

• Automation with AWS CloudFormation

• Dell Technologies, Inc. storage and cloud integration

According to 451 Research, IT organizations must be redefined for the age of DevOps and hybrid cloud.

“Every company needs to raise its software IQ to remain relevant,” says William, fellows VP of research, 451 research. “But skill gaps in cloud platforms like AWS and OpenStack could make or break digital transformation initiatives.” ⁽¹⁾

The company’s next-generation CMP bridges this gap by simplifying hybrid IT management across clouds, assuring compliance, and providing developers resources on demand.

“Digital transformation happens at the intersection of DevOps and Cloud which is putting extreme pressure on IT” said Brad Parks, VP, business development, Morpheus. “Morpheus addresses the cloud complexity crisis while at the same time unleashing developer productivity.“

Simplifying orchestration of OpenStack based clouds
A recent Forrester report indicates that more than 50 of the Fortune 100 use OpenStack today and a third of global enterprise infrastructure decision makers see expanding the use of open source as a critical or high priority. However, 48% of OpenStack users say they also interact with other cloud platforms.

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The company gives hybrid IT organizations the ability to take advantage of open source agility and manage multi-cloud environments which include OpenStack without adding incremental complexity. With the latest software release, Morpheus is simplifying OpenStack management by enabling customers to directly orchestrate actions from the firm’s interface, enabling them to:

• Boost agility by creating OpenStack Octavia load balancers and assigning to VMs for dynamic scaling as application needs change

• Streamline software-defined network management by creating and attaching OpenStack Neutron SDNs and domain name assignments

• Simplify management by connecting directly from the Morpheus UI to instances running within OpenStack via hypervisor console access

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Accelerating DevOps teams with AWS infrastructure-as-code
According to the 2018 State of DevOps report, ‘Elite’ performing organizations are able to go from code commit to a fully provisioned production instance in less than an hour. That level of speed requires a programmatic approach to end-to end provisioning, often referred to as infrastructure-as-code (IaC).

The company has long met this requirement with infrastructure-as-code (IaC) application blueprints which are platform and cloud agnostic. These templates blend the power of declarative JSON/YAML scripting with a GUI designed for everyday administrators trying to support continuous integration and delivery processes (CI/CD).

With this announcement, the company supports execution of application blueprints using native AWS CloudFormation in addition to existing support for HashiCorp Terraform, Microsoft ARM, and native Morpheus templates. With support for a suite of IaC template languages, the firm lets IT operations teams to enforce governance and standardize provisioning processes while still letting DevOps teams increase agility with their toolchain of choice.

Enabling real-time storage provisioning for private clouds According to the 451 Research 2018 Voice of the Enterprise report, 47% of respondents expect to deploy cloud-based data protection in the next two years and 34% say the same for cloud archiving.

To avoid storage silos, teams need to incorporate storage into cloud-first management and automation projects.

To address this demand, the company worked with Dell EMC to integrate Isilon and ECS for file and object storage as well Avamar data protection into its multi-cloud management platform. The firm has also integrated Virtustream, the cloud services business of Dell Technologies, Inc., enabling customers to consolidate management of public, private, and managed cloud platforms.

These integrations, together with connectivity into over twenty other public and private cloud platforms will enable DevOps teams to instantly deploy new application stacks to any cloud, attach to unstructured data repositories, and establish data protection as part of a single workflow.

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Morpheus Data, LLC is the entity behind the Morpheus unified orchestration platform, an enterprise software solution to provide a systematic approach to cloud optimization, multi-cloud governance, DevOps automation, and application modernization. As an infrastructure and platform agnostic solution, it provides IT operations and developers self service and automated provisioning of bare metal, VM, and containerized applications running on-premises or in the public cloud. With more built-in integrations and native functionality, customers can standardize workflows and reduce tool sprawl while orchestrating existing tools to protect investments.