Continuous data platform provider Iguazio Systems Ltd. is getting into the serverless computing game.

The startup, which sells a real-time data analytics platform for applications, is launching an enterprise-grade version of the open-source Nuclio serverless framework designed for high-volume data processing, real-time analytics and artificial intelligence operations.

Serveless computing promises to deliver unprecedented improvements in speed, simplicity and cost that may upend traditional assumptions about how information technology is delivered. Although the name suggests otherwise, serverless computing still requires using computer servers, but users don’t need to worry about operating them. Serverless computing abstracts the information technology infrastructure away from the application so that developers can focus on building their apps instead of worrying about memory settings and operating system versions.

Given those advantages, serverless computing is very likely going to be one of the next big things in software development, and Iguazio seems determined to grab a piece of the action.

With that in mind, the company has worked with Microsoft Corp. to develop native integration for Nuclio with the latter’s Azure cloud services. Iguazio powers the serverless framework with its Continuous Data Platform, helping enterprises to simplify operational challenges, it said. The result is a serverless framework “deployable at the edge, in leading cloud vendors or on-premises, while offering seamless workload portability among all three environments.”

Liam Kelly, Microsoft’s general manager of commercial software engineering, said that by leveraging Azure’s native platform features such as events, monitoring and microservices, “Iguazio is enabling Microsoft clients to rapidly build real-time applications.”

Iguazio said it will showcase the Nuclio framework at the Kubecon event taking place in Copenhagen, Denmark, today through Friday.

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