Cloud infrastructure provider Stratoscale Ltd. has revamped its hyper-converged software, with a focus on Amazon Web Services Inc.’s public cloud, hybrid clouds and developers.

The new release, Stratoscale Symphony 3, adds support for object storage in Amazon’s Simple Storage Service S3 and Kubernetes-as-a-service. It also offers a new Application Catalog with more than 130 applications that can be installed with a single click.

Stratoscale says the main aim of its software is to help enterprises turn their on-premises infrastructure into a hybrid environment that’s fully compatible with Amazon Web Services.

“Cloud-native applications are rapidly becoming the standard, driving enterprises to build AWS-driven strategies for applications and data,” Stratoscale CEO Ariel Maislos said in a statement. “The adoption of an ‘all-in’ cloud strategy, however, presents significant challenges as enterprises re-evaluate existing infrastructure and applications. Moving workloads between environments requires a detailed long-term plan and significant investments and adjustments.”

Stratoscale designed the original version of Symphony as a platform that transforms x86 servers into hyper-converged clusters, in order to enable rapid implementation of storage for both legacy and cloud native apps. The company says it provides information technology organizations with simple, single-pane control and ensures that their data centers can evolve with the public cloud.

Symphony is first installed on a master server, and from there it aggregates the available physical and virtual storage across other nodes in a cluster. Legacy storage can also be connected to a Symphony cluster, and the platform then orchestrates compute, storage and networking across the available pool.

With Symphony 3, Stratoscale says it’s possible to deploy the software within minutes, transforming x86 servers into elastic cloud capacity that’s fully compatible with AWS. The release also adds new capabilities including object storage, which resides side by side with block storage on the same hyper-converged infrastructure. Using Symphony’s software-defined storage capabilities, it’s possible to switch resources between the two different storage types with the click of a button.

The other new capability is Kubernetes-as-a-Service, which removes barriers to adoption such as the need to hire skilled talent, and it also takes into account the lifecycle management overhead that comes with Kubernetes, the company said.

Symphony 3’s new Application Catalog comes with more than 130 pre-packaged stacks of enterprise applications. Users can install and deploy the entire application stack with just one click, the company says. In addition to the large variety of images offered by Stratoscale, IT organizations can add tested and automated applications for their developers and operations professionals to consume in DevTest or production deployments. For service providers building public cloud solutions, Symphony’s Application Catalog acts as a marketplace for packaged automated and tested stacks for customers (tenants) to consume directly. Stratoscale is offering a free test drive as well.

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