Last week, I had the opportunity to attend Cloud Field Day #6 in Silicon Valley. Along with 11 other brilliant delegates, we got the chance to meet with a variety of companies in the cloud computing space. I’m going to be writing about each of them in the coming weeks, but I’m going to start out by talking about a company we met with on our first day Morpheus Data.
A quote from the presentation that I thought was a really good description of their product was “we help big companies act like startups”. Morpheus’ product is combination of a service catalog, provisioning system, along with configuration management and CI/CD deployment. It’s not a full on CI/CD tool, but it integrates with all of the most common ones.
Morpheus allows you to also manage tasks like monitoring, logging, and backup. The amazing thing to me was the number of connectors that the product supported. The cloud integration here was interesting–you could show back pricing of a cloud stack, migrate workloads between clouds dynamically, and enable cloud deployment of both infrastructure and code. In addition to these cloud offerings, it’s possible to deploy to physical servers as the product includes a PXE boot engine.
I think the thing that impressed the attendees most about Morpheus was the number of integrations the product offered. Some of the other tools in this space are vRealize Automation from VMWare and ServiceNow. I feel as though the integrations and ease of moving to an infrastructure as code model is Morpheus’ strong point. As much as we talk about infrastructure as code, it’s really hard for larger organizations to move in unison in this direction. So having a product that can work with existing tools, while offering benefits on it’s own, can be a real benefit to a lot of organizations.
