ChaoSuan, Crunchy Data, Qbox, StorageOS, and Treasure Data Join Cloud Native Computing Foundation to Bring Enterprises Business Agility - Seite 3

Qbox is a startup operating a cloud-based version of the Elasticsearch open source search database. The company makes it easier for enterprises to deploy and maintain services, install, configure, network, secure, and monitor Elasticsearch clusters. Qbox's

platform reduces the challenges of building search applications and is deployed in several locations within the Amazon Web Services, Microsoft Azure, IBM SoftLayer, and Rackspace clouds. Qbox also provides an open source datacenter management system based on Kubernetes called Supergiant.

"As the creator of Supergiant, an open source datacenter management system based on Kubernetes, we felt that joining CNCF would be a great opportunity to support the platform that is so crucial to our development," said Mark Brandon, cofounder and chief executive officer of Qbox. "From our own experience, switching to Kubernetes and cloud native systems allowed us to decrease our AWS bills by 50 percent without sacrificing performance or stability. This five-figure sum, that goes straight to our bottom line each month, has convinced Qbox of the necessity for enterprises to innovate and operate through cloud native technologies."

StorageOS provides container-based storage software that makes it easier for enterprises and software developers to create, test, deploy, scale, and rebuild containerized applications with enterprise-class production storage. The software-based storage solution improves application development and testing by automating the management of persistent containerized storage, increasing scale and availability, and securely moving data between servers, virtual machines or clouds. Following the beta launch later this month, a StorageOS Kubernetes plugin will be open-sourced as the Kubernetes community is essential to the strategy of StorageOS.

"StorageOS is proud to join the Cloud Native Computing Foundation because of the leadership it provides to the cloud native development ecosystem and operations market," said Chris Brandon, co-founder and chief executive officer of StorageOS. "Its mission to harmonize emerging technologies and foster innovation in the container market aligns perfectly with the StorageOS vision. We want to help the industry understand the role storage plays for these new technologies -- as we enable organizations to deploy storage alongside applications in a cloud native manner. So one of our first contributions to CNCF will be to organize an end-user storage special interest group (SIG)."