Astronomer with IBM
The robustness of Apache Airflow within organisations is being strengthened through a collaboration between IBM and Astronomer.
IBM has announced that, through its OEM product, Astronomer with IBM, IBM is collaborating with Astronomer, a top-managed Apache Airflow platform, to enable clients to achieve seamless data orchestration.
Through this partnership, IBM’s current data integration solutions will be expanded to easily support the well-known opensource Apache Airflow project. This will improve IBM’s standing with open source and cloud-native engineering teams that have enterprise-level requirements for data protection, governance, and orchestration.
The Apache Airflow project, which is utilised by more than 15,000 data engineering teams to create, plan, and coordinate pipelines for analytics and artificial intelligence applications, is primarily driven and contributed to by the New York-based company Astronomer. Since its founding in 2018, Astronomer has raised almost $300 million from investors such as Salesforce Ventures, JP Morgan Chase, and Bain Capital Ventures.
Streamlined operations and data orchestration
Scott Brokaw, VP of Product, and Data Integration at IBM, said the company is thrilled to announce this partnership with Astronomer and their top enterprise platform for the well-liked Apache Airflow. This partnership intends to increase IBM’s visibility within contemporary data and cloud engineering teams and is consistent with its dedication to open source. Combining Astronomer’s best-in-class managed service for Apache Airflow with IBM’s premier data solutions will provide its clients with the best of both worlds.
All of the essential elements of your data and application stack, including workloads including generative AI, can be coordinated and managed with IBM’s Astronomer platform. With the speed and scalability your vital applications and data products require, its solution helps guarantee that data is delivered on schedule. Additionally, it abstracts the laborious plumbing that teams often do to implement Airflow at scale and in production within businesses.
Reduce data interruptions with orchestration
According to Andy Byron, CEO of Astronomer, “strong data orchestration is the key to success. Every business is looking for ways to better operationalize their data for a competitive advantage, whether it’s AI and MLOps solutions or advanced analytics.” Since Apache Airflow is the de facto standard for data orchestration, data teams all over the world have turned to it. At Astronomer, it offers the finest approach to executing Airflow. To help customers get more value out of their data, it can combine its Airflow experience with IBM’s extensive business understanding and proven hybrid cloud and AI-driven data management systems.
Astronomer with IBM will be offered as client-hosted software to meet its clients’ data orchestration requirements in markets and sectors with medium-to-high regulatory levels.
What are the advantages for the client with IBM’s Astronomer?
Advantages of IBM’s Astronomer
Customers using Astronomer with IBM can anticipate a 20% decrease in time spent developing, testing, and building new pipelines, as well as an anticipated 70% reduction in data outages. Additional advantages consist of:
Boost innovation: Astronomer with IBM‘s adaptability through UI, API, and CLI allows for the deployment of a variety of workload types, from MLOps to legacy scheduling, all on its top-tier orchestration platform.
Boost the dependability of data: With enterprise-grade controls and capabilities, you can optimise your vital data products and have complete insight and control over their data supply chain.
Make the most of your resources: With its user-friendly managed offering, you can remove the operational burden of maintaining and overseeing open-source Airflow deployments in production and at scale.
Enterprise assistance: Reduce risk by using commercial distribution and support that is supported by SLAs.
IBM’s top data management technology and Astronomer’s top managed airflow technology are combined in Astronomer with IBM.
