So What does DataNexus do?

So I had a really interesting experience this evening while talking to a Sr Analyst whom I have been talking to for decades now. He asked for some time to chat on some trends and to get my opinions on them which we have done a few times over the years as I have asked him for his insights as well. I got on the call and expected to get a few topics to stream of consciousness chat on and share my opinions and then maybe ask him a question or two and we both walk away better for it as it always has been. I really did not expect to have such an epiphany for sure. So the call started as expected and he asked me a few things which I rambled about for 20 mins and then I asked him one and he succinctly answered me as to his thoughts and what he is seeing in the space. So in 30 mins we were done with the planned talk and he asked if I had time to tell him what I was up to. I said of course as I always love talking about what I have been working on for the past 3 years of my life. I started telling him that DataNexus was a platform that had many pieces and that first we built an automation framework that deployed open source data workloads like Cassandra, Postgres, Solr, Elastic and More across multiple clouds including OpenStack, AWS and Azure. He said wow does it deploy clusters and can it install across clouds? I said yes we built it to handle all of that and oh it also has a security overlay that provides a single certificate based security model to access any of the data stores without having to know how in each open platform. He said and all of that works together? I said yes and we also built a flow based deployment framework which automatically can deploy a full stack based on the use case. He asked what that meant as it was "a mouth full". I said sorry I get excited what it means is that you can say I need to get data from Postgres cluster and replicate part of it to Cassandra and part of it to another Postgres cluster and all of it to a file system and the system will deploy the whole flow of this including the Kafka core and all security needed to interconnect the systems. He then said "wait you do Kafka too?" I said yes the whole core of our platform to move data is Kafka. Also we use Kafka to do our CDC work for Oracle and MS SQL server data migration as well. To which I got a gasp and he said "Wait your product does that too?" So at this point he quickly pointed out that what we have built in 3 years replaces $M in commercial products in an standard enterprise and this is a multi tool that should be raking in money. Next he said "why have I not heard of it". At this point I had the epiphany and a sinking feeling that I have been under-selling what we have been doing and clearly I did not understand the value. He then asked why I was not helping all of the Splunk customers around the world to migrate off parts of their estate, given my years at Splunk. I said I still had a love for Splunk and he pointed out money is what a company needs, and if Splunk was priced for value they would not have the issue. At this point our time was up and he had another call with a client, but I sit here and have a sinking feeling that I really need to step it up and explain what we do and that we built a Swiss army knife for data problems. Ok so now I feel like a slacker and I need to get to some promo materials. Also in sharing this I feel like I have both admitted my failure and shared a bit of what we do with my network.

You hit the cloud automation early on, using the right tools in clever ways, Rock On!

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Great post Eddie, I look forward to watching DataNexus take off.......

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