Hyperconverged infrastructure provider Diamanti Inc. said today that it has completed its transition to a software-focused company with the release of Diamanti Spektra 3.0, a software platform that’s designed to enable container-based hybrid clouds.

Diamanti sells hardware and software that enables companies to run Kubernetes-based container workloads in hybrid cloud environments, where workloads are split between on-premises data centers and the public cloud. Containers are used to host the components of modern applications that can run on any kind of computing platform, while Kubernetes is the most popular software used to manage those containerized apps.

Diamanti’s appliance, called Diamanti D20, combines speedy NVMe-based flash storage with plug-and-play networking gear. It supports a range of Linux distributions and container orchestration tools, including the open-source Kubernetes container orchestration software, and plugs into various public cloud computing platforms as necessary. Diamanti Spektra, meanwhile, is the company’s administration software that’s used to monitor and manage networking and storage resources for hybrid Kubernetes deployments.

The company is well funded, having raised $78 million in venture capital funding, including its most recent $35 million Series C round last November.

Diamanti said that with Spektra 3.0 its software can now run on commodity hardware sold by such as Dell Technologies Inc., Intel Corp., Lenovo Group Ltd. and others. The release completes the company’s transition to a software-defined model, officials said.

“We’re collaborating with leading x86 server companies to manufacture and support a joint solution,” Diamanti’s Vice President of Marketing Jenny Fong told SiliconANGLE. “Dell Technologies and Lenovo have world-class supply chains, support organizations and the global scale to deliver the best infrastructure available.”

Fong said that gives customers a choice of buying the company’s own appliance, or leveraging their existing supplier relationships with those companies. “This frees Diamanti to focus our R&D efforts on the challenges around Kubernetes adoption,” she added.

“Kubernetes is a powerful tool, but it’s still too difficult to implement and scale – especially in an enterprise hybrid cloud,” said Diamanti Chief Executive Tom Barton. “By shifting our focus to software-driven innovation and our patented acceleration technology, and partnering with leading x86 server companies like Dell Technologies and Lenovo, Diamanti is able to deliver full-stack solutions that solve the tough enterprise challenges around Kubernetes adoption.”

Diamanti Spektra 3.0 also adds new features such as the ability to migrate and replicate stateful applications, which are apps that save client data from the activities of one session for use in the next session. Such applications include databases and artificial intelligence and machine learning tools, which make up the majority of containerized apps.

The idea behind this update is to give companies a way develop stateful, container-based applications securely and then move them into production in hybrid cloud environments.

The new platform also makes it possible for customers to provision new Kubernetes clusters inside their own data centers, at the edge or in the cloud and manage these from a single control plane. The updated software also gives customers a way to protect and migrate those apps for purposes such as disaster recovery and geographic expansion, the company said.

Finally, Diamanti said, its software now supports managed service providers that need to deal with multiple Kubernetes deployments spanning both on-premises and cloud environments while managing different levels of user access.

Diamanti’s Barton appeared on theCUBE, SiliconANGLE Media’s livestreaming studio, in August 2019 to talk more about how the company handles on-premises Kubernetes deployments:

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