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Weekly Wrap: Ex-Cisco Execs Launch Pensando, Target Amazon
Weekly Wrap for Oct. 25, 2019
Plus, Amazon moves into data centers with VMware, and Red Hat powers IBM's Q3 results
Pensando wants to democratize the cloud; Amazon continues its enterprise push; and will Red Hat justify its price tag?
Ex-Cisco Execs Launch Pensando, Target Amazon
Amazon Moves Into Data Centers With VMware
Red Hat Shields IBM’s Woeful Q3
SDxCentral Weekly Wrap Podcast Full Transcript
Today is October 25, 2019, and this is the SDxCentral Weekly Wrap where we cover the week’s top stories on next-generation IT infrastructure.
This week’s episode of the Weekly Wrap is sponsored by Silver Peak. Learn more about the Silver Peak SD-WAN solution.
A handful of former Cisco executives finally unveiled their long-simmering plans to take on Amazon’s dominance in the cloud space.
Those efforts are based on Pensando Systems, which is the brainchild of Silicon Valley legends Mario Mazzola, Prem Jain, Luca Cafiero , and Soni Jiandani.
Former Cisco CEO John Chambers is also an investor in the venture and was named chairman of the company’s board.
Pensando is offering a distributed service platform that provides programmable, software-defined cloud, compute, networking, storage, and security services.
More importantly, they claim the platform is cloud and infrastructure agnostic, and that it outperforms Amazon’s internally used Nitro product.
Hardware for the platform includes a programmable distributed services card that can be installed in any server and scales linearly.
This allows customers to offer a number of software-defined services simultaneously, while freeing up more expensive hardware resources like general-purpose CPU cycles.
It’s also compatible with virtual machines, bare-metal servers, and containerized workloads.
The platform includes a lifecycle management tool that applies policies from a central location across all active nodes running in clouds and on-premises infrastructure.
And it can perform in-service software upgrades and provide always-on telemetry and visibility across the entire infrastructure.
Rumors of the venture first surfaced in 2017, and it has already raised $278 million in funding.
Amazon recently launched the commercial version of its Relational Database Service that runs in data centers using VMware.
The RDS platform allows customers to deploy the public cloud-native database in their on-premises VMware-based data centers.
This will support self-provisioning of databases; the ability to scale compute, storage, and memory for those databases; and deploy in high-availability configurations by replicating to different VMware clusters.
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By SDxCentralWeekly Wrap for Oct. 25, 2019
Plus, Amazon moves into data centers with VMware, and Red Hat powers IBM's Q3 results
Pensando wants to democratize the cloud; Amazon continues its enterprise push; and will Red Hat justify its price tag?
Ex-Cisco Execs Launch Pensando, Target Amazon
Amazon Moves Into Data Centers With VMware
Red Hat Shields IBM’s Woeful Q3
SDxCentral Weekly Wrap Podcast Full Transcript
Today is October 25, 2019, and this is the SDxCentral Weekly Wrap where we cover the week’s top stories on next-generation IT infrastructure.
This week’s episode of the Weekly Wrap is sponsored by Silver Peak. Learn more about the Silver Peak SD-WAN solution.
A handful of former Cisco executives finally unveiled their long-simmering plans to take on Amazon’s dominance in the cloud space.
Those efforts are based on Pensando Systems, which is the brainchild of Silicon Valley legends Mario Mazzola, Prem Jain, Luca Cafiero , and Soni Jiandani.
Former Cisco CEO John Chambers is also an investor in the venture and was named chairman of the company’s board.
Pensando is offering a distributed service platform that provides programmable, software-defined cloud, compute, networking, storage, and security services.
More importantly, they claim the platform is cloud and infrastructure agnostic, and that it outperforms Amazon’s internally used Nitro product.
Hardware for the platform includes a programmable distributed services card that can be installed in any server and scales linearly.
This allows customers to offer a number of software-defined services simultaneously, while freeing up more expensive hardware resources like general-purpose CPU cycles.
It’s also compatible with virtual machines, bare-metal servers, and containerized workloads.
The platform includes a lifecycle management tool that applies policies from a central location across all active nodes running in clouds and on-premises infrastructure.
And it can perform in-service software upgrades and provide always-on telemetry and visibility across the entire infrastructure.
Rumors of the venture first surfaced in 2017, and it has already raised $278 million in funding.
Amazon recently launched the commercial version of its Relational Database Service that runs in data centers using VMware.
The RDS platform allows customers to deploy the public cloud-native database in their on-premises VMware-based data centers.
This will support self-provisioning of databases; the ability to scale compute, storage, and memory for those databases; and deploy in high-availability configurations by replicating to different VMware clusters.