With Spot Wave, NetApp Helps Organisations Drive Down Infrastructure Cost and Complexity for Big Data Applications on Kubernetes

Spot Wave allows organisations to focus on developing data applications, by providing a serverless infrastructure for running Apache Spark applications on Kubernetes

SINGAPORE – Media OutReach – 18 March 2021
– Global cloud-led, data-centric software
company, NetApp (NASDAQ:
NTAP), today announced the launch of Spot Wave by
NetApp, and Spot Ocean’s support of Microsoft Azure Kubernetes Service. Together, these
products provide customers with leading solutions for simple, scalable, and
efficient infrastructure for cloud-native applications.

Wave automates the
provisioning, deployment, autoscaling and optimisation for running Apache Spark
big data applications on Kubernetes in the cloud and helps to reduce cloud
waste and costs by up to 90 percent. Using Wave as a turnkey product,
organisations can deploy Spark environments faster and more easily, and focus
on putting their data to work knowing that Wave is ensuring their
infrastructure is continuously optimised for availability, performance, and
cost.

Wave is built on Spot’s
AI-based engine, using the same proven technology as Spot Ocean. Wave provides:

• Cost optimisation: Wave runs Spark
  jobs on containerised infrastructure using an intelligent mix of spot,
  on-demand, and reserved instances, affording customers up to 90 percent cost
  savings on cloud infrastructure.
• Serverless infrastructure and Spark-aware
  autoscaling: Built-in autoscaling matches the right type and
  size of compute instances to Spark jobs based on workload requirements to
  maximise performance and efficiency.
• Spark job right-sizing and monitoring: Continuously tune
  Spark configuration for jobs based on analysis of actual Spark job
  requirements.

 

“Organisations are
rapidly adopting Kubernetes to deliver cloud-native applications with greater
speed and agility, not only for stateless services but also for big data
applications,” said Amiram Shachar, vice president and general manager of Spot
by NetApp. “The necessity for organisations to balance cloud infrastructure
cost, performance and availability for optimal efficiency is complex and
time-consuming. Spot Wave and Ocean are solving that problem by providing a
serverless experience for Spark and ensuring their infrastructure is continuously
optimised.”

 

NetApp also announced
that Ocean, Spot’s serverless container engine and the foundation of Spot Wave,
now supports Microsoft Azure Kubernetes Service (AKS), adding to its support
for AWS ECS (Elastic Container Service) and EKS (Elastic Kubernetes Service),
and Google’s GKE (Google Kubernetes Engine).

 

“Wave builds on the
capabilities that we love in Ocean, focusing on the specific needs of big data
applications,” said Gal Aviv, chief technology officer at Fyber. “It will be
very powerful to be able to plug Spark applications into Wave. The solution
also has the amazing value of executing jobs with existing tools and
potentially spin up the right infrastructure to power intensive ML
applications.”

 

NetApp and Spot by
NetApp have deep histories of involvement and experience in Kubernetes and the
Kubernetes community. With ongoing investments in NetApp and Spot by NetApp
products for Kubernetes, NetApp provides the leading solutions and capabilities
for application-driven infrastructure and data management needed by companies
to run critical cloud-native applications.

 

More information on Spot
Wave is available online at https://spot.io/products/wave.