Mesosphere, Inc. has announced the general availability of its Data Center Operating System (DCOS), the latest gambit in its bid to rule the data center and make everything fully virtualized. The company said the free community edition of its software is available in the cloud, alongside an enterprise edition that can be deployed anywhere.

Mesosphere launched DCOS as a cloud-based public beta last May on Amazon Web Services and Microsoft Azure. The software delivers a unified data center operating system that combines Apache Mesos with a mix of open source and proprietary components. The platform departs from the traditional virtualization model to provide a centralized pool of resources that resembles the average consumer device more than traditional enterprise data centers.

Mesosphere DCOS is essentially cloud infrastructure-in-a-box for running and managing clustered data center workloads, with the actual resources being located in a local data center, a public cloud or in a hybrid configuration.

Large Mesos clusters have already been deployed by a number of prominent companies, including Apple, Twitter, Inc. and Airbnb, Inc. among others. Now Mesosphere wants to let other companies do the same, even if they lack the same kind of IT resources and budget.

“Mesosphere wants to bring the benefits of Mesos, and then some, to companies of all shapes and sizes,” wrote Mesosphere’s senior research analyst Derrick Harris in a blog post. “We want to let users build and deploy applications whose components span entire datacenters, but with the simplicity of programming for a single machine.”

To do so, Mesosphere has combined the core of Apache Mesos with a number of other components including Chronos and Marathon, thrown in a few custom command line and web UIs, and simplified the process of packaging and installing services to run on it.

Besides making IT infrastructure management easier, Mesosphere also wants to apply analytics to ensure that workloads run at the most optimal time, said company CEO Florian Leibert to Data Center Knowledge. As an example, Leibert said that most Hadoop jobs are best run overnight because of their batch-oriented nature, and doing so will free up IT infrastructure in the daytime for transaction processing applications.

Perhaps the biggest benefit of Mesosphere DCOS is that it helps eliminate the overprovisioning of data center resources, a big challenge for organizations where IT resources are allocated in isolation.

Founded just a year ago, Mesosphere has turned heads in Silicon Valley by raising more than $10.5 million in venture capital from blue-chip investors like Andreessen Horowitz and Kleiner Perkins Caufield & Byers, as well as by signing up name brand customers like Airbnb, Inc. and Twitter, Inc. while also partnering with Google.

Mesosphere’s CEO Florian Leibert appeared on theCUBE at the OpenStack Silicon Valley event last year, where he told host John Furrier the data center was well on its way to becoming fully virtualized with everything from power supplies to storage devices consolidated into a single pool and managed by software. Watch the interview below (19:48).

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