Mesosphere, today launches Mesosphere DCOS (Data Center Operating System), a commercial version of of open-source Apache Mesos that pools compute resources and automates common operations in datacentre. The company also announced that it has received a $36M B-series funding.
The virtualization management platform which the company says is the first datacenter operating system in the industry, provides developers and operators an interface to automate allocation and deallocation of datacentre resources to run distributed applications and services. San Francisco-based Mesosphere said that the core of Mesosphere’s technology runs some of the largest sites on the internet including Twitter, Airbnb and Hubspot and is the first operating system to support resource coordination across multiple servers. The company added that the new DCOS' supports wide variety of platforms, including main Linux version - Redhat, CentOS, Ubuntu, and CoreOS, On-cloud enviroment - Amazon, Google, DigitalOcean, Microsoft, Rackspace, VMware; and as well as on-premise environment - Bare metal, VMware, OpenStack.
The Mesosphere DCOS which builds upon the popular distributed systems kernel, Apache Mesos, provides primitives for resource management, container-based isolation and scheduling across entire datacentres and cloud environments.
Florian Leibert, CEO and Co-Founder, Mesosphere
This is an operating system being built by distributed systems developers, to tackle the biggest inefficiencies that we see in how today’s applications and services interface with compute resources. From resource sharing, to handling failure, and everything in between - the mission of the DCOS is to bring automation where automation makes sense, and to give developers and operators much finer grained control of their environments, while freeing them from low level plumbing.
Brad Silverberg, who ran the team launched Windows 95 at Microsoft and co-Founder of Fuel Capital
Mesosphere is the manifest destiny of cloud computing. Virtual machines are a step along the way, but the new breed of datacentre services run across fleets of machines. The Mesosphere DCOS is the first operating system to unleash the full power of the cloud — you can run existing applications, but you can also build new applications, bringing automation to processes that otherwise require too much human oversight and simply do not scale.
Benjamin Hindman, who co-created Mesos at Berkeley AMPLab and joined Mesosphere from Twitter
Our vision in building the DCOS was that applications should be the first class citizens in the datacentre, not servers. Operators and developers should be able to launch applications using available resources on a cluster with the same ease with which a user launches an application on a computer or mobile device
