Usability

Wise Cluster can do a lot, for a lot of different users. But putting all those in one basket confuses everyone. Different features require different designs to be usable and that’s what it’s all about.

Wise Cluster is a highly opinionated system in hardware as well as in software of everyday use. We designed it always keeping the users in mind. It hides and automates what makes data infrastructures complex and helps you accomplish whatever you need in the easiest, fastest way possible. Whether you are the end-user concerned with the data lifecycle, or the one who has to keep everything running at all times, Wise Cluster has it all for you.

Customized for different needs

Whether it’s a washer, a tv set or a smartphone, we all know that making a product and using it are very different things. Wise Cluster is no exception. Makers, maintainers, administrators and end-users have different types of needs and we designed Wise Cluster with these differences in mind. We carefully put every screen, draw every line, write every word and place all punctuation marks to make sense for the task at hand.

Setup and run in minutes

Whether it’s just a few nodes or a several hundred, we always deliver Wise Cluster ready-to-use. After the physical installation, all you have to do is to follow the guided setup screens to define your side of the things. It’ll be ready to store and serve your data in the way you need it within minutes.

Self healing

Of course the real work starts the next day, where you start using the system for real and things start to get complicated. Software parts crash, hardware parts break and everyone blames everyone at the end of the day. Wise Cluster has a different approach. We designed it with the knowledge that everything will fail at some point. The solution is not to avoid failures but to automate whatever’s necessary to recover to keep things running.

Managed operations

And as all ideals, there are limits to the automation that standard servers can provide. It’s possible to recover from a faulty hardware part automatically, but servers cannot replace them on their own (not yet anyway). For these instances, Wise Cluster will notify and guide you through whatever you have to do, still automating the configuration and software side of things.