On May 24, 2019, EasyStack, an open source cloud computing company, launched 
its latest generation private cloud product ECS (EasyStack Cloud Service). It 
is a cloud platform with features designed and delivered according to a true 
private cloud.

Unlike traditional custom designed and piecemeal implemented private cloud, the 
core capabilities of this new-generation private cloud is modeled to meet the 
demands of complex environment and data residing behind enterprise customers' 
secured firewall setup. In a nutshell, it is the ability to construct a private 
cloud centered on customers' data and at the same time having a multi-cloud 
platform that can manage multiple cloud providers both public and private. 
Equally important are characteristics such as compatibility with the vast 
hardware and software ecosystem, allowing co-existence of both new-generation 
and traditional enterprise applications to run and operate on, EVOLVABLE 
features when responding to the complex environment of business enterprises, 
yet offering consumer based experience similar to public clouds. 

In view of private deployment of cloud, the new-generation private cloud offers 
the following benefits: 

First, applying it to the business tier, ECS supports new-generation enterprise 
applications such as Cloud, Mobile, IoT, BigData and AI; 

Second, serving Platform as a Service (PaaS) experience, it supports many types 
of applications through building a sharable Kubernetes-based PaaS across 
private and public clouds based on the ecosystem primarily dominated by open 
source PaaS; in fact, enterprise customers may choose to develop a new 
on-demand PaaS in the cloud and cater it to specific scenarios and/or 
industries; 

Third, Infrastructure as a Service (IaaS) implementation, it can offer 
enterprise customers consumer experience as in public clouds. Specifically, not 
only does it provide a complete turnkey project from onboarding, delivery, 
operations & maintenance (O&M) to upgrading, but also brings about its 
pay-per-use service model, transitioning business and technology into the cloud 
service era from the cloud software era;

Fourth, consider the product evolution journey. The best option for evolution 
of the new-generation private cloud is open source ecosystem based transition 
approach. Keeping the new-generation private cloud compatible and aligned with 
the open source ecosystem, on one hand, allows it to be fully compatible with 
the community, and on the other hand, satisfy customers' requirement through 
scenario based design and integration approach. This is a must for replacing 
custom designed clouds with the equivalent of scenario based solution within a 
complex environment and potentially leads to an enhanced PaaS ecosystem as well.

Liu Guohui, co-founder and CTO of EasyStack, emphasized: "Different from being 
upgradable, EVOLVABLE requires an evolution in service capability, product 
modularity and supporting scenarios. This means that, EVOLVABLE must ensure the 
evolvability of service capabilities of the cloud platform itself; being 
EVOLVABLE also means it should be able to adapt to cloud-ready hyper converged 
architecture integrating hardware and software, private cloud, industry cloud 
and multi-cloud solution deployed across different modular form-factors; and 
finally in terms of supporting scenarios, EVOLVABLE represents the ability to 
cater to wide ranging enterprise requirements across compute, network, storage 
building blocks, to commercial storage and commercial SDN (Software Defined 
Networking), from virtualization to bare-metal and container clusters, and from 
DevOps to IoT."

An important highlight that stands out prominently is the ability to perform 
product feature function upgrade without any impact to existing business 
workloads - is the single most important element when applying consistent user 
experience to both private and public deployment of cloud. Also known as smooth 
upgrade, when the process is being carried out, it has three major 
characteristics: business users are unaware of the upgrade, no data migration 
is required, and no service disruption. This means that all business activities 
running in the cloud, including the operations of the cloud platform continue 
as per normal during product upgrading i.e. just like a new energy vehicle 
being driven as usual when its system is being upgraded and the fact that you 
can make a call or use applications on your smartphone when you are upgrading 
its operating systems platform.

Media Enquires:
Adrian Koh, International Business
Internet Mail: adrian.koh@easystack.io

SOURCE: EasyStack