Stratoscale: Seamless, Straightforward ‘AWS on Premises’

In spite of their early promise, private clouds have proven to be far more trouble than expected. They are expensive to set up, difficult to configure, and often fail to deliver on the core promises of the cloud, including elasticity and straightforward self-service usage.

Elasticity – the ability to scale up automatically as capacity demands rise, and then scale back down – generally works, that is, until it doesn’t: every private cloud has an all-too-finite physical capacity several orders of magnitude smaller than the theoretical limits of any public cloud.

Furthermore, self-service capabilities are simple to understand but surprisingly difficult to implement and manage. Private cloud infrastructure must be able to support simple provisioning of compute resources (VMs and containers), storage assets, as well as virtual networks seamlessly, across arbitrary numbers of physical services, independent of the underlying hardware and physical network – a challenge that has stumped many vendors.

In fact, with Stratoscale, the cluster assembles itself. If an existing cluster is short on compute or storage, operators simply add additional servers. In fact, it’s possible to add more servers with high storage capacity or large amounts of RAM as needed. Stratoscale automatically adds those resources to the cloud. To Stratoscale, storage, compute, and network are all simply ‘capacity.’

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