Rakuten Symphony
Cloud Solutions Overview
Rakuten Symphony, a subsidiary of the Rakuten Group, stands at the forefront of innovation in the telecommunications sector, offering cutting-edge B2B services tailored for the global mobile telco industry. Through its cloud-based infrastructure, the company spearheads a transformative shift towards next-generation mobile services on an international scale.
Distinguished by its commitment to leveraging cloud technology, Rakuten Symphony redefines industry standards by prioritizing agility and efficiency in mobile network operations. This departure from traditional hardware-centric approaches marks a pivotal evolution in telecommunications.
Within the Telecom Cloud arena, Rakuten Symphony presents three flagship solutions:
In this blog, we will delve into an overview of these leading products by Rakuten Symphony, offering readers a high-level understanding of their capabilities and contributions to the telecom landscape.
1. Rakuten Cloud-Native Platform (formerly Robin CNP)
Rakuten Cloud-Native Platform is a top choice in the Kubernetes realm for managing stateful applications crucial to enterprise workloads. Offering advanced data management, application-aware scheduling, and storage orchestration, it addresses the needs of stateful workloads within container orchestration. Fully compatible with the open-source Kubernetes API, it ensures seamless integration and allows for the use of familiar tools and workflows.
One of its key strengths lies in its compatibility with open-source Kubernetes, providing automated installation, upgrades, and monitoring without requiring modifications to the underlying infrastructure. Additionally, it supports deployment and management at the edge with lightweight architecture, integrated CNI and CSI support, automated lifecycle management, security features, and a unified dashboard.
Furthermore, Rakuten Cloud-Native Platform offers a comprehensive suite of storage and data management features tailored for modern cloud-native environments, enabling efficient management and orchestration of data-intensive workloads across hybrid and multi-cloud environments, ultimately simplifying operations and empowering organizations to leverage their data effectively.
Here are the various components of Rakuten Cloud-Native Platform:
1.1 Rakuten Cloud-Native Platform Benefits
There are several benefits of Rakuten Cloud-Native Platform. Some of them are as follows:
- Policy-Driven Application Lifecycle Automation
- Multi-Cloud and On-Premises Support
- Security and Compliance
- Application Performance Monitoring
- Built-in Application-Aware Data Management
- Dynamic Resource Scaling
- Easy-to-Use, Simplified Management Interface
- Advanced Networking Capabilities – as-a-Service
- Edge-Friendly
- Industry Best VM-Container Harmonization
2. Rakuten Cloud-Native Storage (formerly Robin CNS)
Rakuten Cloud-Native Storage is a state-of-the-art data management solution tailored for Kubernetes, compatible with any distribution. Deployed as a standard Kubernetes operator, it seamlessly integrates with essential administrative tools like Kubectl, Helm Charts, and a user-friendly GUI. Its automation capabilities streamline processes according to user-defined policies, accelerating time-to-results and minimizing human errors.
This comprehensive system prioritizes application-aware data protection, safeguarding not only applications but also metadata, configurations, and sensitive secrets with advanced encryption and robust key management. By simplifying application and data management, it empowers Developers and DevOps teams to focus on core objectives, facilitating quick adoption and workflow optimization for any organization.
Symcloud Storage automates critical aspects of the data lifecycle, including backup and recovery, snapshots, rollback, and cloning, ensuring enterprise-grade availability and consistent accessibility. With exceptional scalability and bare-metal performance, it supports network- and storage-intensive workloads while enforcing quality-of-service, eliminating hotspots, and ensuring automated, policy-driven data locality.
Compatible with on-premises setups and major cloud providers such as GCP, AWS, Azure, and IBM, Symcloud Storage offers hybrid cloud capabilities. It seamlessly integrates with diverse Kubernetes distributions, enabling users to leverage advanced data management features for stateful applications, including various database systems like NoSQL, RDBMS, Timeseries, and Big Data.
Here are the various components of Rakuten Cloud-Native Storage:
2.1 Rakuten Cloud-Native Storage Benefits
There are several benefits of Rakuten Cloud-Native Storage. Some of them are as follows:
- High-performance storage solution for Kubernetes
- Elevated data reliability with swift failover capabilities
- Enterprise-grade storage solution: simple, swift, and robust
- Safeguarding systems from infrastructure failures
- Application-aware snapshots: fortifying data loss prevention
- Automating day-2 operations and lifecycle management tasks
- Enterprise-grade storage seamlessly supporting block and file workloads
3. Rakuten Cloud-Native Orchestrator (formerly Robin MDCAP)
In today’s fast-paced digital landscape, efficiency is key to staying ahead of the curve. Introducing Rakuten Cloud-Native Orchestrator, a game-changing solution that redefines operational efficiency through its hyper-automation capabilities.
Imagine streamlining the orchestration and management of every aspect of your infrastructure, from bare-metal setups to third-party appliances, Virtual Network Functions (VNFs), Cloud-Native Network Functions (CNFs), and service chains. With Rakuten Cloud-Native Orchestrator, this becomes a reality. Built-in logging, monitoring, and policy engines ensure a seamless closed-loop automation process, all managed through a single, intuitive interface.
Gone are the days of complex onboarding processes. With a simple click, applications and Network Functions (NFs) are effortlessly integrated into your ecosystem. Leveraging a vast pre-integrated vendor ecosystem spanning telco, cloud, and enterprise applications, Rakuten Cloud-Native Orchestrator simplifies onboarding like never before.
Flexibility is at the core of Rakuten’s solution. Ingest any scripting, including helm charts, to automate Methods Of Procedures (MOPs), effortlessly orchestrating network elements, applications, or processes. What once took days or weeks can now be accomplished in mere minutes.
Rakuten Cloud-Native Orchestrator doesn’t just stop at efficiency; it’s designed for scalability. By integrating multiple layers of orchestration and workflows into a unified platform, it’s the perfect solution for rapidly scaling out 5G, Open RAN, and Multi-access Edge Computing (MEC) applications. Whether it’s Content Delivery Network (CDN) streaming, gaming, or beyond, Rakuten Cloud-Native Orchestrator empowers you to transform operations from the core to the edge, driving innovation and agility like never before.
3.1 Rakuten Cloud-Native Orchestrator Benefits
There are several benefits of Rakuten Cloud-Native Orchestrator. Some of them are as follows:
- Enables truly shared resource pools, with containers and VMs deployable in the same cluster
- Small footprint and scales to over a million appliances
- Single-pane management and large-scale orchestration of a wide variety of elements and functions, ranging from infrastructure and network to applications and services
- Reduced deployment times – from weeks to minutes
- Applicable to any network element or application
- Full-stack orchestration and lifecycle management – from bare metal to service orchestration
- Unified Day 0/1/2 lifecycle management