Software companies are increasingly relying on open source databases for their applications, but it's complex to work with all of these different products. Instacluster, a California startup, wanted to change that by offering popular open source databases offered as a service.
NetApp has expanded its services by purchasing Instacluster offering its customers a way to install popular open source databases without worrying about the headaches of dealing with raw open source. Among its supported projects are PostgresSQL, Apache Kafka, OpenSearch, ElasticSearch and Apache Cassandra,
This purchase is part of a series of smaller acquisitions by the company, which has traditionally provided storage and data management services. In a blog post announcing the deal NetApp executive vice president and general manager Anthony Lye said the acquisition was ultimately intended to improve the customer experience by making it easier to install this software.
"The acquisition of Instacluster It is a strategic step for NetApp; to do more for the customer, simplify the experience, continually optimize and secure the platform so customers don't have to do it themselves,” he said.
When combined with other acquisitions the company has made, a pattern can be seen as the company attempts to transition from a legacy storage provider to something that is more relevant to today's customers looking to manage workloads in the cloud. .
“We have made a number of strategic acquisitions including Spot, CloudCheckr and Fylamynt to offer FinOps. And with Cloud Hawk, Cloud Secure, and CloudCheckr, we now offer SecOps. We provide solutions for our customers' most pressing cloud needs: scale, performance, speed, efficiency, security and cost,” said Lyn.
Ben Bromhead, CTO and co-founder of Instacluster, believes that the two companies produce a logical combination for customers. “From a technology and product perspective, the powerful infrastructure solutions of NetApp They combine perfectly with the solutions and services of data layer as a service of Instacluster".
Instacluster was founded in 2013 and raised around $22 million, according to data from Crunchbase. NetApp was founded in 1992 and went public in 1995.
