Cassandra-as-a-Service
Large scale organization often have multiple Big Data environments and Cassandra is a trusted data base for managing large amount of time-stamped data streams. As the number of data sources, their velocity, and volume grows, organizations often ponder with the following questions on Cassandra:
- How do we get better control over the growing costs?
- How do we optimize the architecture for scalability?
- How do we enable the entire organization to take advantage of the Cassandra infrastructure?
Contriva Cassandra-as-a-Service addresses the above questions and much more in a comprehensive manner.
What is Cassandra-as-a-Service?
Cassandra-as-a-Service is a combination of Integrated Consulting and Operations to increase agility. It supports Multi-Cloud i.e., it works on both AWS and Azure. It is packed with Cloud Essential Foundational Services and pre-built tools that accelerates both migration and operations. The principle behind this solution is continuous Automation that delivers continuous Cost reduction. This modular service can be replicated across divisions
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Why Cassandra-as-a-Service?
The following are the benefits of 8K Miles’ Cassandra-as-a-Service:
- Enables seamless scaling of time-series data volume and velocity by up to lOOX
- Enables enterprise-wide adoption of Cassandra using a small core team
- Reduces over head costs by almost 75% through automation
- Increases speed of deployment by 4X through automation
- World-class architecture support
Cassandra-as-a-Service Offerings
- 24X 7 Dedicated Managed Services – Email,Ticketing, Phone
- Includes Monitoring, Incident,Problem, Change, Deployment, SIEM,
- Capacity,Billing, Performance, Best Practices, Patches and Upgrades
- DedicatedTec hnical Ac count Manager
- Global Support Presence @ USA and India
- Builtover Data Stax product support a nd AWS I Azure support
Architecture of Cassandra-as-a-Service in Detail
Infrastructure
- Recommend proven highly available and scalable cloud architectures that can work on popular Cloud providers like AWS, Azure and Google Compute Cloud
- Recommend secured VPC network architecture that can support inter / intra region cluster setup, isolation from other layers of the system
- Automate end-to-end Infrastructure provisioning befitted for Cassandra and its supporting technologies
- Engineer DevOps scripts and programs aligning towards Organization DevOps pipeline
- Engineer Deployment Automation to multi data centers for failovers and business continuity
- Engineer definitive Cloud scripts to handle node failures, node disconnect, availability zone outages, etc.,
Cassandra
- Assemble Cassandra Cloud guidelines for availability zone awareness, sub nets, replica placements, replication factor,snitch,read and write consistency
- Recommend standardized configuration methodology for write intensive and read intensive tables, key spaces and cluster
- Design Schema partitions for better distribution and Query performance
- Design and Engineer data models, query patterns, column families and so on
Migration
- Strategic planning and guidance for full cycle migration
- Deep understanding on Cassandra and Cloud Providers cuts the trial and error approach
- Migration Acceleration : Migration Assessment, Impact Analysis, Tools to move Large data Between Cloud Providers, Automation Scripts,
- Validation and Roll back scripts
- Migration Model – Lift and Shift I Phased
- Provide Architecture, Engineering and Migration help on both Cassandra and Cloud Provider level for following
- Cassandra Migration Between Regions
- Lower to Higher version of Cassandra
- Cassandra on Azure to Cassandra on AWS
- RDBMS/NoSQL to Cassandra
- Cassandra to Native Cloud Data stores
- Architecture and Engineering help on Data Model, Partitions, Queries, Distributions etc. on Cassandra during migration
Security
- Apply Best practices in configuring underlying cloud infrastructure and Cassandra infrastructure
- Identify Security problems on Traffic data between Cassandra nodes using Amazon VPC network logs
- Control Access to Tables using pre-built templates that integrate Active Directory / Kerberos into Cassandra
- Cassandra logs integrated with Log Pipeline developed by 8K Miles for GEHC
- Security Best practices involving Cassandra Disk encryption at rest, KMS, log safeguarding etc.,
- Continuous Audit of Cassandra Nodes for security loopholes and security exceptions
- Automated Security fixes on underlying Cloud Provider running Cassandra cluster