Mesosphere Joins Dell EMC's Reseller Program to Provide Open, Scalable Platform for Hybrid Cloud

Using Mesosphere DC/OS, Dell EMC customers can quickly and easily deploy data-intensive, microservices and containerized applications while reducing cost and optimizing compute resources SAN FRANCISCO, Sept. 19, 2017 /PRNewswire/ -- #Mesosphere — the creators of DC/OS, the premier platform for building and running data-rich, containerized applications — today extended its existing strategic relationship with #DellEMC by becoming part of Dell EMC's formal reseller program. Under this agreement, joint customers can now purchase Mesosphere DC/OS licenses, services and training directly from Dell EMC and its reseller partners globally. By collaborating with Mesosphere, Dell EMC customers can now orchestrate containerized applications and data services between their on-premise and public cloud implementations, thus maximizing efficiencies, reducing cost and optimizing compute resources. Mesosphere and Dell EMC have a history of collaborating on behalf of customers. Earlier this year, the companies delivered a reference architecture for deployment of DC/OS across Dell EMC compute and storage infrastructure. Additionally, #Mesosphere integrated #REXRay, an #opensource #container storage #orchestrationengine developed by {code} — #DellTechnologies' open source organization — to manage storage from multiple platforms, in DC/OS. This announcement illustrates the continued collaboration by Mesosphere with leaders in the server industry. By partnering with a leading hardware and software provider like Dell EMC, Mesosphere is better able to provide enterprises with a unique hybrid cloud solution, allowing them to maintain control of valuable proprietary applications and data while still unlocking the full potential of digital transformation. "We're incredibly proud to extend our relationship with Mesosphere and provide our joint customers a unique hybrid cloud solution," said Joshua Bernstein, vice president of technology, Dell Technologies. "Customers are increasingly seeking solutions that offer public cloud-style services without the threat of cloud vendor lock-in; combining DC/OS with Dell EMC hardware fulfills that need. In addition, DC/OS has a unique architecture that allows it to orchestrate both containerized microservices and modern data services using its application-aware scheduling, making it an ideal platform for the kind of applications that are transforming businesses today." "At Royal Caribbean, we're building complex and groundbreaking software systems that need to be quickly and easily deployed, scaled and maintained across dozens of ships at sea," said Michael Delgado, chief technology officer at Royal Caribbean. "We're excited to see Mesosphere and Dell EMC more closely aligned and working toward cloud-native solutions that provide ease of use, control and the ability to deploy within our own data centers." "Mesosphere is helping businesses deliver personalized and seamless customer experiences, by powering data-intensive applications on hybrid and edge cloud infrastructures," said William Freiberg, chief operating officer, Mesosphere. "With this collaboration, we're empowering joint customers to deliver next-generation customer service with the flexibility to choose on which infrastructure to deploy, whether that's on-premise or in the cloud. That's why I'm pleased to build on our relationship with Dell EMC." Availability Mesosphere DC/OS and related services are available now through Dell EMC and worldwide channel partners. Interested customers can contact either company for more details, or begin the journey to Mesosphere DC/OS today. About Mesosphere Mesosphere is leading the enterprise transformation toward distributed computing and hybrid cloud. Mesosphere DC/OS is the premier platform for building, deploying, and elastically scaling modern applications and big data. DC/OS makes running containers, data services, and microservices easy across your own hardware and cloud instances. Mesosphere was founded in 2013 by the architects of hyperscale infrastructures at Airbnb and Twitter and the co-creator of Apache Mesos. Mesosphere is headquartered in San Francisco with additional offices in New York and Hamburg, Germany. Mesosphere's investors include Andreessen Horowitz, Hewlett Packard Enterprise, Khosla Ventures, Kleiner Perkins Caufield & Byers, and Microsoft.

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HPE-Mesosphere Deal Pushes Hybrid Cloud Adoption

Hewlett Packard Enterprise ( #HPE ) and #Mesosphere announced a deal to further integrate Mesosphere’s datacenter operating system (DC/OS) with HPE’s hardware and software. The companies say the agreement will help enterprises’ hybrid cloud adoption. It builds on HPE’s February original equipment manufacturing (OEM) and reseller agreement with Mesosphere, which saw HPE begin reselling Mesosphere’s software on HPE servers. HPE also led Mesosphere’s $73.5 million C Round last year. Software-Defined Infrastructure The new agreement integrates Mesosphere’s DC/OS with HPE Synergy composable hardware and HPE OneView management software platforms. Composable infrastructure combines compute, storage, and networking into a pool of fluid resources that an application can grab as necessary to meet its specific needs. HPE’s infrastructure management software automates, provisions and configures resources according to application needs. Integrating Mesosphere’s technology with HPE OneView allows users to provision and update bare metal DC/OS nodes in the same way as virtual and cloud resources. This makes it easy for administrators to deploy and elastically scale a cluster on bare metal servers, said Mesosphere CMO Peter Guagenti. “HPE is focused on really moving to software-defined infrastructure; we’re drafting behind that so it’s a seamless experience to go from setting up a server, using their software and tools to make that available, and adding those nodes inside DC/OS,” Guagenti said. “If you want to run containers or microservices or anything else that runs on our DC/OS in your data center, now we’ve gone from weeks or months to configure a datacenter for these types of applications to just hours.”

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Mesosphere, Dell EMC Team to Deliver Reference Architecture for Private and Hybrid Cloud

SAN FRANCISCO, May 10, 2017 /PRNewswire/ -- Today at #DellEMC World, #Mesosphere — the creators of DC/OS, a premier platform for building and running data-rich, containerized applications — announced a collaboration with Dell EMC to provide a reference architecture for customers to deploy DC/OS with select Dell EMC compute and storage infrastructure. Running Mesosphere DC/OS helps enable Dell EMC's customers to offer their internal development and operations teams a public cloud-like experience within their own data centers — including best-in-class orchestration and management of containers and single-click deployment of big data services — while avoiding public cloud lock-in. By combining DC/OS with Dell EMC hardware, customers are expected to achieve better performance and cost savings, and consumability compared to other options. Mesosphere and Dell EMC have a history of collaborating on behalf of customers. Last year, Mesosphere integrated REX-Ray by {code}, by Dell EMC a container storage orchestration engine to manage storage from multiple platforms, in DC/OS. Today's announcement is a result of the natural evolution of the relationship, putting access to the leading technology for powering modern apps into the hands of Dell EMC customers. This combined reference architecture will help enable customers to build and run modern applications that use containers and big data services within their on-premise infrastructure. In this reference architecture, Dell EMC #ScaleIO and ScaleIO Ready Nodes provide a complete scale-out solution for compute and storage infrastructure for applications and micro services. Mesosphere's "Datacenter Operating System" (DC/OS) with ScaleIO provides a software platform that aggregates both compute and storage and provides a simple UI or CLI for application and container management and orchestration, single-click deployment of 100's of data and devops services, and elastic scaling. Customers who follow the reference architecture will be using a proven solution that minimizes risk and simplifies deployment, and are supported by both Mesosphere and Dell EMC. Dell EMC ScaleIO is a data center grade software-defined storage that uses standard x86 hardware and Ethernet to deliver scale-out block storage, simplifying storage lifecycle management. ScaleIO abstracts, pools and automates block storage in servers, including high performance All-Flash or hybrid media, and provides shared storage with enterprise class reliability. The ScaleIO Ready Node is pre-validated, tested and configured to provide the best performance possible – with a single vendor for support. ScaleIO Ready Node allow customers to deploy ScaleIO in a hyper-converged appliance. "We're incredibly proud to expand our relationship with Mesosphere," said Josh Bernstein, Vice President of Technology, Dell Technologies. "DC/OS combined with ScaleIO Ready Nodes is a powerful solution for data-rich, microservices applications, as it uniquely allows deployment of big data toolsets along with other frameworks side-by-side, all while scaling from the smallest environments up to tens of thousands of servers." The move to the cloud is continuing at a rapid pace, but enterprise buyers increasingly ask for cloud native applications and infrastructure within their own data centers. With more reliance on proprietary tools and APIs from public cloud vendors, and increasing complexity for moving between providers, there is substantial potential for lock-in. In response, customers seek out hybrid cloud offerings. "Customers need the flexibility and ease that comes from being able to provision and scale infrastructure, services and tools on demand, and so it's no wonder many companies have rushed to public cloud providers. However, they also want to control costs, leverage existing investments, and have the ability to choose what infrastructure they deploy on, whether that's public or private," said Will Freiberg, COO at Mesosphere. "Pairing Mesosphere's software with Dell EMC solutions provides the benefits of cloud services while retaining freedom and control." Availability DC/OS is available from Mesosphere and Dell EMC today. Read the Mesosphere blog or attend the general session at Dell EMC World at The Venetian in Las Vegas on Wednesday, May 10 at 10:00 a.m. PT featuring Josh Bernstein to hear more about the collaboration. About Mesosphere Mesosphere is leading the enterprise transformation toward distributed computing and hybrid cloud. Mesosphere DC/OS is the premier platform for building, deploying, and elastically scaling modern applications and big data. DC/OS makes running containers, data services, and microservices easy across your own hardware and cloud instances. Mesosphere was founded in 2013 by the architects of hyperscale infrastructures at Airbnb and Twitter and the co-creator of Apache Mesos. Mesosphere is headquartered in San Francisco with additional offices in New York and Hamburg, Germany. Mesosphere's investors include Andreessen Horowitz, Hewlett Packard Enterprise, Khosla Ventures, Kleiner Perkins Caufield & Byers, and Microsoft.

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