Cloudify Launches Spire for Orchestration From Core to Edge

Cloudify launched Spire, an orchestration platform to connect and control distributed networks, devices, and applications from the data center to the edge. The new platform uses what Cloudify calls a “micro-orchestration” architecture that manages network services across domains. It is intent-based and vendor-agnostic. And it connects and manages distributed containers, network elements, and edge devices in the cloud or on physical servers. Existing configuration and automation tools can be incorporated in the platform, which provides a single point of access across distributed networks. ACG Research Chief Analyst Paul Parker-Johnson said that Spire uses a standards-based plug-in and API framework that incorporates distributed resources in OpenStack, Kubernetes, VMware, and other virtual environments. Representational State Transfer (REST) enables integration with BSS and OSS applications, he said.