Infrastructure is everything. Ideas don’t matter anymore; your capacity to outperform your competitors do. Today Big Data challenges require businesses to take appropriate measures on the health of their IT department.

It used to be that if you’re a large company enterprise, innovation will just come to you. But those days are long gone. Businesses currently have a hard time scaling up and maintaining a culture of innovation. Indeed, it appears as if these companies spend most of their time just trying to keep up with the trends and learn from the very few fast tech companies.

The rise of data science and related areas makes things worse as they require faster and iterative development processes. If no solid foundation and trust are in place, businesses can turn into a nightmare where nothing ever gets done.

Most of us at Ognitio have had the opportunity to work on a multitude of challenging data problems in large scale environments. We started our project with a clear objective in mind: build infrastructures for engineers and analysts to boost their productivity in data science; and enhance the quality of their work experience. The mission is simple, but exciting and vast in possibilities: Unlocking the value of your cloud infrastructure.

Today, we are proudly working on Circus, a secure and intelligent cloud orchestration platform for your data center. With Circus we’re able to provide speed, scale and intelligence. An all-in-one to make people better at their most important work. The infrastructure we want is transparent and trustworthy. It allows you to focus on optimizing your applications and it maintains productivity in the long run.

Today, we’re pleased to announce Circus to everyone. Sign up here for the beta!

Introducing Circus

Circus is a cloud orchestration platform that simplifies and speeds up business application scheduling on clusters of physical or virtual machines. It enables you to manage your data center as if it’s a single computer and considerably improve your resource utilization.

As we solve and host hundreds of data problems at Ognitio, we wanted to provide our developers with better control and trust over the way they organize and manage their cluster of hosts.

Circus is a platform built on top of Apache Mesos that provides three main benefits to his users:

It abstracts pool of compute resources allowing you to focus on optimizing your applications without worrying about the infrastructure. It enables everything you need to build, run and scale thousands of applications and services in your infrastructure. It promotes a collaborative and transparent environment for your team members.

A key component of Circus is the namespaces. It enables cluster operators to easily partition their resources. This mechanism helps administrators to have full control and visibility over the needs of multiple user communities.

With namespaces, users are now able to work in isolation from other communities.

A lot of effort have also been invested into helping Circus users organize and monitor their hosts at any scale.

Today, Circus schedules, starts, restarts and monitors a full range of applications that run at Ognitio.

Hosting and managing your business apps with our platform frees your IT department to do more in large distributed environments.

Building products that matter is what drives us. We’re working hard to give the users of Circus a refreshing experience. Your feedback is important to us! You can help us in 3 simple steps:

Sign up here for the beta! Keep up with us on Twitter or Facebook. Send us an email at contact@ognitio.com to tell us what you think!

Looking forward to doing this together!

Lucien.