Matter, an Atlanta-based cloud automation platform that helps companies plan, code and ensure compliance, launched on the market Wednesday morning.
Matter's cloud-automation and management platform helps companies migrate their initiatives and business to the cloud. Matter is a product of Atlanta-based ReactorWorks CEO John Peak, who built the platform based on his experience helping Fortune 500 companies migrate their business to the cloud.
"Now that we’re in the marketplace we’ll be focusing on expanding our sales organization to sell not just to enterprises but also to the MSP market and other channels nationally," Peak told Atlanta Inno. "This is a massive opportunity to make the innovation that is the public cloud more accessible than ever."
Matter's office, located in the heart of Midtown at the Biltmore, employs six people and expects to grow the staff within the coming months, Peak said. The company is not actively seeking funding at this time, but will look at raising capital in 2020.
Cloud migrations are no cakewalk, according to Matter representatives. The task is complicated and requires intensive research. More than half of all enterprises conducting cloud migration have reported a stalled or delayed migration attempt, according to a news release. A study found that global spending on pubic cloud services and infrastructure will double within the next five years.
“For the past 15 years we’ve watched companies take their journey to the cloud and knew there was a need for greater automation across the entire process and a way to make the generational innovation of cloud computing accessible to more businesses,” Peak said in a statement. “The market continues to offer solutions that tackle one, or possibly two of the vital elements required to migrate or deploy critical applications to the cloud, and yet we see that more than half of all migrations are failed or stalled. Matter is the only cloud offering with end-to-end automation that also provides a single source of truth across the entire enterprise cloud migration process. Matter is the first and only DevOps Firewall.”
Matter's planning module creates a deployment plan using a customizable scoring model that prioritizes applications based on business value while balancing complexity. This allows businesses to plan each migration and move the most valuable operations to the cloud first and foremost.
The company's provisioning module offers autonomous provisioning of cloud infrastructure which makes it easy to specify and auto-generate all the infrastructure components needed to deploy to the cloud. The startup claims it can reduce DevOps resource requirements by half.
The compliance module makes sure the cloud complies with all industry standards, regardless of industry, before they are deployed. The module also offers continuous infrastructural monitoring once it's live, in order to keep the cloud in compliance with adapting regulations.
