Hazelcast Goes Live on Microsoft Azure Marketplace
PALO ALTO, Calif,. Aug. 30 -- Hazelcast, a leading open source in-memory data grid with hundreds of thousands of installed clusters and over 16 million server starts per month, today announced that the open source version of Hazelcast 3.6.3 is now available as an image in the Microsoft Azure Marketplace – an online applications and services marketplace that enables start-ups and independent software vendors (ISVs) to offer their solutions to Microsoft Azure customers around the world. Microsoft Azure customers can now quickly run and provision Hazelcast and leverage the resilience, integrity, and scale of Hazelcast’s easy-to-deploy, in-memory computing.
Hazelcast provides an in-memory data layer that scales elastically with demand. Cloud developers can easily drop Hazelcast into their applications and achieve the same kind of high-performance scalability and in-memory performance enjoyed by investment banks. Hazelcast on Microsoft Azure provides high-availability in the cloud with partition groups for failure domains across Microsoft Azure Regions. This ensures Microsoft Azure customers benefit from high application availability and seamless failover by having one cluster on two or more Microsoft Azure Regions. If one Region is lost the remaining cluster is large enough to handle the load – a business critical feature for businesses with high availability concerns. As cloud developers and operations teams look to accelerate their use of open source solutions, Hazelcast has reacted by introducing a Cloud Discovery SPI which enables cloud-based or on-premises nodes to auto-discover each other in the same cluster with minimal configuration and management set-up.
Alongside support for the Microsoft Azure Marketplace, Hazelcast comes with integration options for cloud management and configuration such as Apache jclouds, AWS, Microsoft Azure, Consul, Eureka, Jetty Web Sessions, Kubernetes, Mesos, Tomcat Web Session, and Zookeeper. Also, Hazelcast includes container deployment options for Docker, Cloud Foundry and OpenShift. To ensure maximum extensibility of individual cloud strategies, the Hazelcast open source community has created client APIs for a host of programming environments including Java, Scala, .Net/C#, C++, Python, Node.js, and Clojure.
“We are seeing a lot of our customers choosing Microsoft Azure as they migrate their infrastructure to the cloud,” said Greg Luck, CEO of Hazelcast. “We worked with Microsoft to develop the Microsoft Azure cloud discovery plugin so that Hazelcast clusters can run in Azure, and then to bring Hazelcast to the Azure Marketplace. This is a fully tested integration with support for Hazelcast, Hazelcast Enterprise with BYOL, and Management Center. It supports all Hazelcast capabilities including user code deployment to cluster members. We are very excited and cannot wait to see the community and our customers using Microsoft Azure.”
Andrea Carl, Director, Commercial Communications, Microsoft Corp. said, “We’re happy to welcome Hazelcast to the Microsoft Azure Marketplace. Microsoft Azure provides the high performance and global scale required by developers, and we’re pleased that our mutual customers can benefit from Hazelcast’s expanded service.”
Hazelcast is available here on the Azure Marketplace.
About Hazelcast, Inc.
Hazelcast is a leading provider of operational in-memory computing with tens of thousands of installed clusters and over 16 million server starts per month. The Hazelcast In-Memory Data Grid helps leading companies, like Capital One, Chicago Board Options Exchange, Deutsche Bank, Ellie Mae, and Mizuho Securities USA, manage their data and distribute processing using in-memory storage and parallel execution for breakthrough application speed and scale.
Source: Hazelcast
