Startup Volterra Inc. is exiting stealth mode today backed by more than $50 million in funding, with a mission to help enterprises distribute their applications across public and private clouds and the network edge.

Volterra has built a software-as-a-service based infrastructure platform that it says provides a “consistent, cloud-native environment that can be deployed across multiple public clouds and edge sites.” The company wants to give enterprises a simple and consistent way to deploy, manage and secure their apps across a diverse landscape of private clouds and edge locations.

This kind of simplified model will certainly be needed, because more and more software applications are being deployed outside of corporate data centers. Indeed, Gartner Inc. says that by 2022, it expects the majority of enterprise data to be produced and processed outside of data centers.

“Organizations are having to increasingly distribute their applications as they deploy and manage them across multiple cloud and edge locations, which greatly increases complexity, time and total cost of ownership,” said Volterra founder and Chief Executive Officer Ankur Singla.

That creates headaches for organizations because it means they need to deal with an array of heterogeneous software platforms that are challenging to deploy and maintain, Singla said. In addition, the mix of cloud-native and legacy services along with indeterministic connectivity makes it difficult to control the performance and reliability of those apps.

Organizations also face new security challenges because “distributed applications and data across multiple cloud and edge sites is significantly harder to secure using network or weak-identity based systems,” Singla said.

Volterra aims to fix these problems by integrating all of the necessary services enterprises need to deploy and manage their apps across multiple locations at scale. The Volterra platform is made up of three components, including the VoltStack. It enables companies to deploy and manage distributed apps across multiple clouds and edge sites using Kubernetes application programming interfaces.

VoltMesh, meanwhile, is designed to handle the networking side, linking distributed apps together and providing zero-trust security between clouds and edge locations. Finally, the Volterra Console provides management capabilities for operating distributed apps at large scale from a centralized location.

“Applications are becoming more distributed and deployed closer to native data sources, which is driving DevOps and IT teams to employ a cloud operational model at the edge and consistently across their infrastructure footprint,” said Mark Bowker, a senior analyst with Enterprise Strategy Group. “Volterra is taking an innovative and cloud-centric approach to deploying, operating and securing distributed applications.”

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