Diamanti: D20 Appliance Converged Platform Purpose-Built to Simplify Kubernetes Deployments

Diamanti, Inc. announced the launch of its D20 appliance, a converged platform to simplify Kubernetes deployments in on-premises data centers and across cloud providers.

In less than 15 minutes, customers can deploy D20 and start running container workloads on Kubernetes.

Containers, Kubernetes, and other open-source technologies accelerate application development, but running containerized apps in production on legacy IT infrastructure has introduced a steep learning curve for Global 1000 enterprises. Early attempts to run containers on VMs have proven both costly and non-performant (read: Five Reasons You Should Run Containers on Bare Metal, Not Vms, registration required).

In Diamanti’s 2018 Container Adoption Benchmark Survey, 44% of respondents said they plan to replace some VMs with containers, and 34% said they spend more than $250,000 annually on VMware licensing fees. In addition to reducing this ‘VM tax’, enterprises are moving off of VMs and onto bare metal containers for performance reasons

“A growing number of forward-looking enterprises are taking a bare-metal approach to containers that eliminates VMs to improve performance and utilization,” said Jay Lyman, principal analyst, 451 Research. “However, supporting Kubernetes and the potential shift away from large-scale VM usage presents infrastructure challenges. Vendors such as Diamanti provide infrastructure that can accommodate orchestrated Kubernetes environments without impairing the flexibility or performance that makes Kubernetes desirable in the first place.“

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Boasting 15mn deployment of the full container stack (Kubernetes 1.12 / Docker 1.13 support), one million IO/s per node, and sub-100µs latency, D20 gives enterprise platform architects and application owners the simplicity, performance and reliability they need to run Kubernetes in production. It is more performant than running containers on VMs.

Because D20’s performance is driven by the company’s storage and networking architecture, the firm’s platform delivers on the promise of an open-source Kubernetes experience.

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D20 ships with 2.1.0 Diamanti console, and enterprise-grade feature enhancements, including:

• D20 hardware platform (based on Intel Purley platform)

• Performance-tier QoS limits

• Volume resize

• Open-source Kubernetes 1.12 / Docker 1.13 support

• Multi-domain LDAP

“Kubernetes is one of the most rapidly adopted technologies in IT history, but a common challenge has been the difficulty of standing up Kubernetes infrastructure and delivering guaranteed performance in production,” said Tom Barton, CEO, Diamanti. “After 15 years of experience on VMs, the market is seeking a lighter-weight, more performant, enterprise Kubernetes infrastructure, minus proprietary vendor lock-in.”

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