Spectro Cloud Closes $40M Series B Round to Accelerate Growth and Kubernetes Management Platform Product Development
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That includes any combination of new and existing Kubernetes clusters, be they virtualized or bare metal data centers, public clouds or edge locations. Spectro Cloud announced its Real Metal architecture in October, and its extension to add support for edge locations on March 15. According to Jay Lyman, senior analyst with 451 Research, part of S&P Global Market Intelligence, who wrote in the Voice of Enterprise: DevOps, Organizational Dynamics – Advisory Report, “As cloud-native deployments evolve both in the industry and inside organizations — now encompassing more than just web applications to include more data-rich and mission-critical workloads — many organizations are now leveraging containers via cloud services, operating systems and bare metal without VMs, which can impact both efficiency and costs.” • Unified full-stack lifecycle management beyond the Kubernetes infrastructure, spanning the operating system, applications and add-on services; • Support for any Kubernetes environment, encompassing any Kubernetes distribution, operating system and combination of integrations in any location; • Pre-validated, pre-tested stacks to ensure compatibility across all layers and integrations, enabling support of multiple development teams and application projects with zero configuration-drift risk; • End-to-end automated operations from day 0 to day 2 tasks for each cluster, such as granular RBAC, self-healing and cost optimization; and, • An industry-unique approach for bare metal data centers and edge locations that allows IT teams to easily deploy and manage any cluster’s full stack with a cloud-like experience based on a low-touch, plug-and-play setup and the ability to scale to thousands of clusters. “We are extremely pleased to lead Spectro Cloud’s Series B financing,” said Stripes founder and Partner Ken Fox. Co-founded in 2019 by CEO Tenry Fu, Vice President of Engineering Gautam Joshi and Chief Technology Officer Saad Malik, Spectro Cloud provides a complete and integrated platform that enables organizations to easily manage the full lifecycle of any combination of new or existing, simple or complex, small or large Kubernetes environments, whether in data centers or clouds.