On-premise is no longer cost-effective and is challenging to scale. Many companies are finding that hybrid and multi-cloud strategies provide a lot of business benefits including cost savings, infinite scalability, and security.

MERCURY GROUP is a premier Google partner and is a huge proponent of using containers (rather than VMs) in Anthos. Containers offer significant advantages including:
Containers advantages:

Faster application deployment and run time Consume fewer system resources (CPU, RAM) Portable, lightweight, and easily scalable OS agnostic

 

What is Anthos?

Anthos is the portfolio of products that enable organizations to achieve hybrid and multi-cloud environments. With Anthos, customers can run their applications on-premise in Google cloud and also on other cloud providers including AWS and Azure.

Anthos dramatically reduces the common complexities of running workloads and apps on different clouds (multi-cloud), on-prem and in the cloud (hybrid) so you have a single source of truth, control and visibility. That makes it easier to:

• Maximize efficiency (easily place workloads where they make the most sense)
• Innovate (speed up app development to provide new services or open new lines of business)
• Scale up or down (meet seasonal or random end-user spikes in e-commerce/retail and other sectors)
• Contain costs (reduce cloud costs by moving workloads based on access, and security storage needs; repatriate when it’s cheaper to run in-house rather than cloud)
• Keep critical data secure (easily automate and standardize security policies)

 

What are the components of Anthos?

1. Google Kubernetes Engine (GKE)
2. GKE On-Prem
3. Anthos Migrate
4. Istio on GKE
5. Anthos Config Management