Mesosphere today announced it had raised an additional $125 million in funding as part of an effort to position the provider of a platform based on Mesos open source software at the intersection of cloud computing, Internet of Things (IoT), Big Data, artificial intelligence (AI) and containers.
The DC/OS platform created by Mesosphere uniquely provides both an abstraction layer for underlying infrastructure as well as being able to integrate various classes of data pipelines in near real time, says Mesosphere CEO Florian Leibert.
Rather than having to master all those technologies individually, Leibert says solution providers and their customers can focus their efforts on a single DC/OS platform to efficiently address a broad number of emerging use cases.
The one thing that does unify all those use cases is a general shift away from relying on batch-oriented applications towards applications that are processed in near real-time, says Liebert. To achieve those goals solution providers will need a platform that enables real-time integration of data at levels of unprecedented scale, says Liebert.
For example, DC/OS is now regularly employed by the customer to integrate streaming analytics platforms such as Apache Kafka with the Apache Spark in-memory computing framework, which in turn are being accessed by containerized applications based on Docker, says Liebert.
Those applications and frameworks can be deployed on DC/OS running in the cloud or on-premises at will, says Liebert.
“DC/OS is a software-defined hybrid cloud operating system, says Liebert.
In addition to continuing to invest in platform development, Liebert says solution providers should expect to see Mesosphere adding additional reference architectures that channel partners can leverage across a broad swath of application scenarios, including AI applications based on open source TensorFlow software.
Mesos was one of the first open source projects to provide an abstraction of IT infrastructure that could be deployed anywhere. Since then Mesosphere has been driving the integration of Mesos with both a Marathon container engine it helped develop as well as the Kubernetes container engine now emerging as a de facto standard. DC/OS combines those core technologies along with support for managing data pipelines across multiple Big Data sources. The result is a platform beginning to gain traction among enterprise IT organizations looking for a flexible means of addressing multiple classes of applications using the same “as-a-service” platform, says Liebert.
It remains to be seen just how much traction Mesosphere will gain in the enterprise. But with more than 125 enterprise companies such as Tommy Hilfiger, Royal Caribbean, Deutsche Telecom, and NBC Universal, using DC/OS, it may not be all that surprising to see Mesosphere claiming it has now tripled revenues year-over-year. The only issue now is waiting to see how many of those opportunities the company’s limited base of channel partners will drive going forward.
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