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What if enterprise applications were similar to Google docs in how they are managed? Irrespective of on-prem or cloud, deployment, and operation of all enterprise applications, as simple as creating and editing a Google doc, can open doors for enhanced business opportunities.
“We’ve made a platform for operations teams to help operate their platforms and applications,” says Chris Munford, founder and CEO of Nethopper KAOps. Through the platform, an operations team can create or destroy infrastructure and deploy application upgrades instantaneously without knowing the intricacies of programming or the source codes.
The initial idea was to create an application layer that allowed multiple cloud environments to communicate. However, Nethopper’s team understood that the challenges of DevOps and IT teams are beyond connecting cloud infrastructures. A more significant challenge was the changes in the Kubernetes clusters and the management of cloud infrastructures. Clients desired a quicker solution where they could work on multiple cloud infrastructures and automate pushing changes in Kubernetes. Nethopper identified GitOps as a foundation for an automation platform to operate any application.
Nethopper’s multi-cloud application network became the base of their KAOps, Kubernetes Applications Operations platform, and the underlying philosophy is GitOps. A term coined in 2017 by Weaveworks and gaining traction in mainstream DevOps, GitOps allows operations teams to define their IT and enterprise applications in the desired state in a Git repository and employs automation to enforce that state. It’s a robotic process where the infrastructure stays in sync with what’s written in the Git repo. The source of truth for these applications and IT infrastructure is under source control, where instantaneous auditing and pushing the ‘undo’ button can be performed.
KAOps encapsulates ArgoCD-as-a-Service and MCAN or Multi-Cloud Application Networking-as-a-Service for holistic support to deliver, monitor, connect, and scale client applications across cloud and clusters.
We’ve written a platform for the operations team to help operate their platforms and applications
When an eight-year-old healthcare analytics organization wished to scale their range of applications with the proliferation of customers, KAOps was the perfect platform for them. The organization has the largest healthcare systems and hospital chains as their clients, where they analyze various data from different applications. The analytics company had an IT team to run these applications and a DevOps team to operate them. Due to a lack of automation, they had to expand these teams as the customers grew. They wished to increase the number of applications while maintaining the exact headcount and reducing the processing time of customer requests. Upon introducing the KAOps platform, the client reduced the duration for approval of customer requests from four days to two hours. “This is a 10 to 50 times improvement in their processes by bringing automation to their IT and DevOps,” adds Munford.
Businesses must create more applications to attract and maintain customers and not spend significant resources on building platforms. KAOps speeds up the entire process and provides an infrastructure-agnostic platform to develop and audit applications simply by editing a Google Doc. KAOps is a more deterministic, auditable, and error-free approach to operating infrastructure and can be procured from the Nethopper website.
nClouds Recognized on CRN's 2023 MSP 500 List
Friday, February 17, 2023
SAN FRANCISCO, - nClouds, announced that CRN®, a brand of The Channel Company, has named nClouds to its Managed Service Provider (MSP) 500 list in the Pioneer 250 category for 2023. nClouds was previously named to CRN's MSP 500 list in 2022 and 2021.
CRN's annual MSP 500 list identifies the industry-leading service providers in North America who are driving a new wave of growth and innovation for the channel through forward-thinking approaches to managed services, helping end users increase efficiency and simplify IT solutions while maximizing their return on investment.
"We're excited about the continued growth and recognition of the nClouds MSP practice," said Shaun Ritchie, CEO of nClouds. "Built on AWS, our managed services solutions provide customers with a secure, scalable infrastructure that is continuously cost-optimized. It is their platform for innovation, growth, and business agility."
Nethopper Launches Partner Program for Managed Service Providers to Capitalize on Cloud Native App Modernization Service
Tuesday, November 07, 2023
Partner program to accelerate application modernization and enterprise cloud native journey
BOSTON, MA, USA, -- Nethopper, the pioneer of Kubernetes Application Operations Platform as a Service (KAOPS), today announced the official launch of its Nethopper Partner Program to drive new revenue opportunities for Managed Services Providers (MSPs), Systems Integrators (SIs), and Value-Added Resellers (VARs).
Similar to how KAOPS makes Kubernetes easy for end-users, the Nethopper Partner Program makes it easy for partners to establish their own DevOps practice or specialty that is focused on Kubernetes, including Application Modernization, Managed Kubernetes, and GitOps services. Partnering with Nethopper reduces the effort in delivering best-in-class cloud native DevOps services at scale, with security, resilience, and speed.
The company’s new program leverages tools and best-practices, including AIOps-powered assessments and KAOPS, a GitOps-centric platform engineering SaaS, to help partners capitalize on the cloud native business opportunity and drive growth for their clients.
Overcoming key industry challenges with the Nethopper Partner Program:
1. Cloud native is widespread and growing. Integrating its ecosystem’s tools and processes can take over 2 years. The Nethopper Partner Program empowers its members to quickly advance their GitOps-DevOps practice in a matter of weeks or days, instead of years. By leveraging the KAOPS platform engineering solution, partners save time and money.
2. Talent remains in short supply as cloud native/Kubernetes/GitOps is becoming the prevailing mindset and methodology for application architecture and infrastructure. The Nethopper Partner Program provides an integrated, ready-to-use cloud native, GitOps-centric DevOps platform that is so easy to use, existing engineers can quickly master it–and help clients modernize their applications with speed. The result is a better developer experience with accelerated time-to-revenue.
3. Cloud vendor lock in and operational complexity of managed and non-managed Kubernetes distributions. The Nethopper Partner Program provides access, training and support for the KAOPS platform. With its neutral approach to Kubernetes and cloud, KAOPS allows partners to use a single, integrated UI to quickly deploy and manage their client's container-based applications in any Kubernetes, across any cloud, private, public, hybrid/multi-cloud or edge, with ease.
Quote from Tom Phelan, HPE Ezmeral CTO:
“The HPE Ezmeral software stack, along with Nethopper Kubernetes Application Operations (KAOPS) provide our customers with a state of the art, all-in-one solution to simplify, automate, and protect Cloud-Native operations, as well as applications, on Kubernetes, even in multi-cloud environments.”
Quote from Jay Pasteris, Blue Mantis CIO and CISO:
"Blue Mantis is proud to partner with Nethopper on our GitMantis managed GitOps platform solution. That partnership enables our consultative engagement with businesses to deliver the advanced GitOps tools as a unified managed service with the impeccable support that clients need in their digital transformation journey."
Quote from Chris Munford, Nethopper Founder and CEO:
“The Nethopper Partner Program furthers our mission to simplify Kubernetes and cloud native innovation. The program unleashes new revenue streams for partners, allowing them to rapidly engineer and expand their professional GitOps-DevOps practices portfolio, to profitably drive customer success.”
About the Partner Program
Acceptance into the Nethopper Partner Program:
- Does not incur new hiring, or the need for deep technical specialized expertise in Kubernetes or the cloud native ecosystem to sell the service.
- Provides access to KAOPS with its unified dashboard and built-in integrations for CI/CD for containers, Continuous - Delivery, IaC, secrets/security configuration, and advanced observability with GPT-based AIOps.
- Allows access to documented best-practices and personnel with deep GitOps, Kubernetes technical expertise.
Members of the Nethopper Partner Program can take advantage of:
- KAOPS cloud native DevOps platform
- Turnkey AIOps free assessment to demonstrate need and value
- Attractive incentives and enterprise support
- Sales and sales-engineer training and enablement
Company
Nethopper KAOps
Management
Chris Munford, Founder/CEO
Description
Offers KAOps, a platform containing all the major tools to operate modern cloud native applications and infrastructure
