OpenDrives Partners With Kazuhm

OpenDrives, LLC partnered with Kazuhm, Inc.

Joining the OpenDrives containerization marketplace, also announced as a new feature to OpenDrives’ centralized management software platform (Altas), Kazuhm allows end-users to activate and integrate compute nodes on their network regardless of OS or type of device.  

“At OpenDrives, we’ve taken a storage-first approach to compute by bringing containerized applications and automation directly into the storage infrastructure. The introduction of ‘pods’ and ‘recipes’ simplifies deployment and management of these containerized applications, thus reducing complexity and increasing performance,” said Sean Lee, chief product and strategy officer, OpenDrives. “By partnering with best-in-class distributed compute technology leaders like Kazuhm, who share our same values in ensuring ultra-low latency and cost, enterprise-scale organizations can run multiple workloads in isolated virtual environments as close as possible to the data to optimize performance.“

Kazuhm runs secondary workloads that never interfere with the node’s primary function to enable secure, low-cost, low-latency compute across a variety of enterprise applications. Designed to run on the OpenDrives storage device, it enables OpenDrives’ storage hardware and compute offering to leverage any customer IT asset, providing a flexible storage-compute offering vs. rigid on-premise private cloud solutions that require dedicated hardware assets.

“We are pleased to have the opportunity to be the first OpenDrives partner to deliver our distributed computing capabilities as an integrated feature of the Altas platform,” said Andreas Roell, CEO, Kazuhm.  “OpenDrives’ containerization marketplace enables us to expand our reach to a new set of customers that have not yet experienced the cost and performance benefits of running containerized workloads on their own on-premise devices.“

Kazuhm is available through the OpenDrives containerization marketplace, a growing ecosystem that, through an API, allows customers to load recipes on the compute module without interfering with storage performance and further power OpenDrives’ scale-up, scale-out infrastructure. OpenDrives’ software dashboard, also included in the latest Atlas software release, unlocks deep insights into all analytics running on the OpenDrives system, in real-time, with a graphical interface.

Additional applications in the OpenDrives containerization marketplace include DaVinci Resolve Project Server, as well as common agents for services like Grafana Analytics and Splunk.