Infosys TechCompass #45: Open Source - Cloud Continuum

Cloud continuum

Open source offers immense innovation opportunities for internet companies and cloud-native?organizations. However, organizations did not have the required engineering capabilities earlier to manage such opportunities. To help manage open-source technologies from the upstream distribution, new companies emerged to provide enterprise distribution like RedHat and SUSE for Linux, Hortonworks, and Cloudera for Hadoop. Another variation is enterprise subscription and support from the core open-source committers themselves like Confluent for Kafka and Elastic for Elastic Search. While these enterprise subscriptions alleviated support-related issues, the complexity of adoption increased with a rising number of vendors.

Trend 1 – Managed services from CSP to lower barriers to open-source adoption?

A leading technology product company, which delivers its services as SaaS, could not meet business SLAs due to the complexity of managing a multitude of open-source technologies used in building products. The company’s platform was not scalable to meet its business growth and stability requirements. Infosys helped the company transform with Google Cloud by adopting managed PaaS like GKE, DataProc, Cassandra from Marketplace, and Kafka from Confluent. The company improved the platform availability to 99.97%.

Trend 2 – Cloud continuum expands for distributed, polycloud, and edge systems

Infosys’ deperimeterization is a zero-trust platform infra solution, which enables secure hybrid EDGE access for extended ecosystems and accelerates onboarding-cocreation-collaboration for subsidiaries, mergers and acquisitions, trainees, partners, gig workers, and client projects. Secure zero-trust fine-grained platform authorizes access from nondomain connected machines, enabling enterprises to safely enroll external ecosystems.

Know more about these key trends here.