JetStream Software Inc. launched with a next-generation cross-cloud data management platform. The JetStream Cross-Cloud Platform gives cloud service providers (CSPs) and Fortune 500 enterprise cloud operations a better way to support workload migration, resource elasticity, and business continuity across multi-cloud and multi-data center infrastructures.
Founded by a seasoned enterprise IT management team from FlashSoft Software, acquired by SanDisk in 2012 — CTO Serge Shats, CEO Tom Critser and President Rich Petersen — JetStream Software highlights the company’s fast track into the enterprise cloud market with the launch of JetStream Migrate.
“JetStream has been working closely with cloud and managed service providers to help them deliver new and better services, including seamless cloud migration, DRaaS and business continuity,” said founder and CEO Critser. “At the same time, our partners have continued to provide the enterprise-grade availability, agility and resilience enterprise customers expect while dramatically reducing their operating costs.”
The market opportunity for cross-cloud solutions is significant: Research and advisory firm Gartner, Inc. has reported that “the Disaster-Recover-as-a-Service market is estimated at approximately $2.01 billion with an expected growth to $3.7 billion through 2021.”i Many cross-cloud operations, such as enterprise hybrid cloud deployment and cloud migration, still require significant professional services, but improvements in cloud-native tools can increase efficiency and productivity.
“Cross-cloud IT operations require new thinking and new technologies for data management,” explains founder and CTO Shats. “Rather than adapting legacy technologies originally designed for on-premises data management, the JetStream Software platform leverages standard virtualization APIs to provide a unique architecture that delivers the capabilities of the software-defined data center to the cross-cloud world.”
JetStream Cross-Cloud Platform
JetStream Cross-Cloud Platform will provide “built for the cloud” data management capability in an all-software, hypervisor-integrated solution for multi-cloud, multi-data center operations. The platform will be designed to complement VMware-based cloud infrastructures offered by VMware Cloud Provider Partners and VMware Cloud on AWS.
The platform will enable reliable data replication for disaster recovery (DR) and disaster recovery as a service (DRaaS) with high performance and minimal impact on application performance.
On-premises data centers will gain cloud elasticity with seamless workload migration to and from CSPs without interruption — all with enterprise-grade performance and availability.
“At OMC, we are always pursuing the most advanced technology to provide the greatest reliability and performance for our customers,” said Yohay Azulay, CEO of OMC, a global cloud service provider. “I am particularly impressed that JetStream Software applies VMware’s IO Filter API for data replication because it removes the financial and technical penalties a cloud provider incurs when using legacy snapshot-based applications for backup and DR.”
Cloud Migration: JetStream Migrate
A key component of the JetStream Cross-Cloud Platform, JetStream Migrate is the first data replication solution for cloud migration to run as an IO filter in VMware vSphere. It facilitates the seamless live migration of enterprise virtual machines and their workloads from on-premises data centers to the cloud.
The advantages of the product’s unique architecture include:
Live migration supported even when data is replicated on a data transport device
Live migration without snapshots, for better application performance
Fault tolerant – if interrupted, data replication continues from point of interruption
Migration prediction – forecasts time required, optimal data transport method
Support for migration groups, so interdependent VMs migrate together
Simple, lightweight deployment and management
“I’ve been running a beta version of the JetStream Migrate software to move VMs between data centers, and beyond the product’s robust capabilities, I’m amazed at the simplicity and ease of use,” said Gary Lamb, CTO and data center architect at AxisFlow. “When you can remove the friction of VM migration from the customer onboarding process, you’ve given a massive boost to a cloud provider’s bottom line.”