Rethinking Hybrid
How Data Services Bridge Cloud with On-Premises
IT infrastructure alone, whether public cloud, hybrid, or on-premises, can’t solve today’s most pressing data challenges. That’s why OpenDrives set out to create something more: a dynamically scalable, data services platform designed using cloud-native principles to unify, simplify, and optimize the way you and your teams work with your data. More than just a data storage, orchestration, or management product, Astraeus provides a single data home for all your modern workflows, aggregating and managing disparate data stores while delivering high performance, intelligent resource optimization, and resilient protection thanks to its cluster-first design.

Astraeus gives you the cloud flexibility, familiarity, and overall experience you’ve come to rely on, but with the things you miss about on-premises (security, cost predictability, and performance)—all in a unified namespace. It’s hybrid redefined so you can experience your ideal workflow environment: one that is easy and always on, geared toward driving innovation and delivering business outcomes.
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Tenets of Astraeus



Now accepting participants in our Astraeus Early Adopter Program
We just released an early version of Astraeus on September 1, 2025. Not all features and capabilities are available. If you’re interested in becoming an early adopter, email us at hello@opendrives.com.
Astraeus data services turn data into clear business outcomes


Astraeus offers data services that provide clear business outcomes with your data:
- Available for early adopters! High-Performance Data Storage Management: Boost productivity and streamline operations with optimized and performant storage management, one of Astaeus’ core data services. Unify critical workflow applications from various data stores onto a single platform, and optimize resource utilization, processing, provisioning, capacity, and performance across teams with precision. Quickly aggregate, access, and share resources with always-on availability and data integrity, eliminating concerns around resource allocation, overspending, idle systems, or wasting time hunting for data.
- Available for early adopters! Autonomous Application and Cluster Management: Aggregate your cloud-native applications and clusters into Astraeus and manage them effortlessly with the Astraeus Data Services Controller. Its Kubernetes-based framework preserves everything you’ve already built, so that there’s no need to re-architect what already works. Deploy entire workflows seamlessly, while autonomous application and cluster management services handle the monotonous tasks and heavy lifting. Now, you can focus on letting your data work for you—not the other way around.
The following data services will be available in a future release:
- Dynamic Resource Allocation and Orchestration: With Astraeus’ Scalable Services Manager, you gain explicit control over scheduling and allocating the right amount of storage and compute resources your business needs for smoother operation. Choose to spin up or down specific data services and when to turn them on or off. Grant more processing power as you build clusters, launch applications, and extend your workflows. With dynamic resource allocation and orchestration, you’re in the driver’s seat of the environment you want to create.
- Flexible Deployment and Scalability: Leveraging cloud-native and software-defined principles, Astraeus connects all your data stores, whether on-premises or in the cloud, enabling you to scale out and manage as many clusters as you need. Its flexible, scalable design simplifies integration into a single environment that will evolve with your business and support emerging technologies and workflows. No data sprawl. No vendor lock-in. Just the freedom to architect your ideal workflow.
- Unified Data Plane: Break down silos and reduce operational friction by repatriating cloud-native applications from distributed data stores into a single, unified system. Consolidate unstructured data stores, object stores, and structured data sources in one data plane that adheres to your organization’s access control, governance, and sovereignty policies.
- Data Optimization & Tiering: A growing list of data optimization and tiering services help you find and access needed data across all connected data stores. A policy-based Hierarchical Storage Management (HSM) layer automates data movement for greater efficiency and cost control. Monitor key usage insights to improve performance, accelerate project completion, and reduce risks.
- Data Governance & Protection: Safeguard your most valuable assets with protection and governance services that ensure data is shielded, secure, and available throughout its lifecycle. Minimize disruption with proactive business continuity practices, and in the event of a disaster, quickly recover data and resume critical operations
Interested in Becoming an Early Adopter?
Want an inside look at Astraeus, OpenDrives’ newest product? We’re inviting a select group of organizations to join our Early Adopter Program. This program provides exclusive access to our latest technology, direct collaboration with our team, and an opportunity to help shape what’s next. Email us at hello@opendrives.com to learn how to get involved. Please note you must meet the following requirements to be eligible: interested in repatriating from the cloud, have containerized applications already, able to provide feedback in exchange for early access and testing.
With Astraeus, you get the following:
- A data services platform that centralizes, manages, and scales-out data across dynamic environments, making workflows simpler, faster, and more resilient
- A unified namespace to seamlessly manage data sprawl across various data stores
- Performant storage management and intelligent compute and resource optimization to ensure your critical workflow applications are accessible, available, and extensible
- Dynamic scalability, and reliable data protection and resilience
