Mesosphere Brings DataStax Enterprise to the DC/OS Universe "App Store"

DENVER, CO–(Marketwired – Jun 2, 2016) – MESOSCON – Mesosphere announced today that it has partnered with DataStax, the leading provider of database software for cloud applications, to bring DataStax Enterprise (DSE) to the Mesosphere DC/OS (Datacenter Operating System) platform. DSE is built on Apache Cassandra, and delivers the functionality, tooling, certification, and support required by today’s enterprises to power modern data-driven applications.

Like other DC/OS services, DSE on DC/OS Universe — the platform’s app-store-like library of available services — will feature a simplified installation process, as well as performance and availability enhancements that make it a strong choice for production environments and the developer community responsible for powering applications that require real-time data at epic scale. Running on DC/OS, DSE can share infrastructure with other popular data systems and DC/OS services, such as Apache Spark and Apache Kafka.

“DataStax’s mission has always been to deliver the enterprise’s most secure, ‘always-on’ database platform whether in a single datacenter or across multiple datacenters and clouds, while also raising the standard for operational efficiency,” said Barry Evans, Head of Technology Partner Development, DataStax. “Making DataStax Enterprise available on DC/OS is incredibly exciting because together we are accelerating the whole process of powering modern cloud apps with modern orchestration and deployment.”

For years, Apache Mesos and Apache Cassandra have been a popular combination for distributed developers. The pairing of DSE and DC/OS takes things to the next level, adding advanced management, security, UX and other capabilities on top of the scalability and fault tolerance people already love with Cassandra and Mesos. At MesosCon, for example, Uber delivered a talk about “Running Cassandra on Apache Mesos Across Multiple Datacenters.”

“Our customers are demanding DataStax Enterprise on DC/OS,” said Florian Leibert, Co-Founder and CEO of Mesosphere. “Everyone knows that massive Internet players like eBay, Spotify, Netflix, and Apple are huge users of Cassandra — but today we are also seeing an explosion in both Cassandra and DataStax Enterprise adoption in more traditional enterprises that are shifting their operations models from silos to the ‘single computer,’ clustered model with DC/OS.”

In April 2016, a broad alliance of leading companies joined forces with Mesosphere to release DC/OS, the first open and comprehensive platform for building, running and scaling modern enterprise applications. An open source version of Mesosphere’s revolutionary Datacenter Operating System platform, DC/OS offers powerful capabilities for microservices and container operations (including Docker), high availability, and single-click, app-store-like installation of complex distributed systems via the DC/OS Universe. Information about the Mesosphere Enterprise DC/OS platform is available here.

About Mesosphere
Mesosphere (Twitter: @Mesosphere) is leading the enterprise transformation toward distributed computing and modern applications with its Datacenter Operating System, and is the principal founding member of the DC/OS open source project. DC/OS is a production-proven datacenter-scale platform for container operations and simple installation of complex distributed systems — including HDFS, Apache Spark, Apache Kafka, Apache Cassandra and more. Mesosphere was founded in 2013 by the architects of hyperscale infrastructures at Airbnb and Twitter, along with the co-creator of Apache Mesos. Backed by A Capital, Andreessen Horowitz, Data Collective, Fuel Capital, Hewlett Packard Enterprise, Khosla Ventures, Kleiner Perkins Caufield & Byers, Triangle Peak Partners and Microsoft, Mesosphere is headquartered in San Francisco with additional offices in New York and Hamburg, Germany.

About DataStax
DataStax, the leading provider of database software for cloud applications, accelerates the ability of enterprises, government agencies, and systems integrators to power the exploding number of cloud applications that require data distribution across datacenters and clouds, by using our secure, operationally simple platform built on Apache Cassandra™.

With more than 500 customers in over 50 countries, DataStax is the database technology of choice for the world’s most innovative companies, such as Netflix, Safeway, ING, Adobe, Intuit, Target and eBay. Based in Santa Clara, Calif., DataStax is backed by industry-leading investors including Comcast Ventures, Crosslink Capital, Lightspeed Venture Partners, Kleiner Perkins Caufield & Byers, Meritech Capital, Premji Invest and Scale Venture Partners. For more information, visit DataStax.com or follow us @DataStax.