Consulting Services

Open source strategy

Open source solutions offer economies of scale and strong community support, along with robustness, manageability, high-performance, scalability, security, and reliability. Instaclustr works with customers of all sizes, across a wide range of industries and use cases. Our consultants guide in selecting the right technologies for your needs, identifying potential blockers and minimizing risk in adopting open source for your organization.

Our open source strategy engagements typically include the following:

• Environment discovery
  Determine the needs for adopting open source technologies to understand your environment and define clear requirements.
• Open source maturity assessment
  Evaluate your organization’s maturity against our model to create a strategic plan.
• Environment discovery
  Offer recommendations and detailed plans for an “open source first” strategy.

Solution architecture

Are you starting a project and need to update your system architecture for global scale, high availability, and performance? Our consulting team has helped architect the data layer of some of the world’s leading applications. Our solution architects can quickly design a solution for the performance, security, scale, and availability that are needed for global scale enterprise solutions.

Our team can help you:

• Define an architecture that aligns with your specific business requirements
• Provide best practice and practical solutions for proven integration and design patterns
• Design and implement Proof-of-Concept (PoC) solutions to explore and validate decisions

Health checks

Our health checks are designed to ensure that your cluster is configured and tuned for performance, security, scalability, and high availability.

Key outcomes include:

• Increased certainty that your cluster will cope with future demand
• Identification of opportunities for improved performance and reliability
• Potential reductions in spend through identification of the most efficient underlying infrastructure

Operational review

Instaclustr has extensive experience managing thousands of performant, secure, scalable, and highly available clusters.

We provide independent assurance that your operational processes are sound and provide guidance for improvmenets where needed. If you’re starting from scratch, we ensure your processes meet the highest requirements for performance, reliability, and availability.

Migration to open source

Instaclustr has extensive experience in migrating from costly licensed products, to pure open source solutions like Apache Cassandra®, Apache Kafka®, Valkey, Apache Spark™, Kafka Connect, PostgreSQL®, Cadence and OpenSearch. We provide all the checks, preps, and steps required for a zero down time migration. We also provide alternative solutions for monitoring, backup, and repair operations.

Our “Closed Source to Open Source” migration packages are built on extensive experience and hundreds of successful customer migrations.

Technology kickstarter package

Instaclustr Kickstarter Packages offer an efficient way to evaluate open-source technologies and ensure they fit your application and use case. Our packages provide the insights you need to start right and access our experts.

Kickstarter Packages include:

• Free cluster
  Access to an Instaclustr development cluster for 3 months to begin hands-on work
• Discovery session
  Evaluate your organization’s maturity against our model to create a strategic plan
• Follow up Q&A sessions
  Sessions with our experts to help design and build your application and data model
• General guidance
  Ongoing support from Instaclustr’s expert consultant for advice and guidance