AI Solutions for Always-Optimized Operations

Cloud-ready or on-prem?

November 29, 2021

SparkBeyond enables users to use cloud-native, multi-cloud, and on-premise platforms that seamlessly work with existing data storage, enterprise source systems, tools, and underlying infrastructure.

SparkBeyond's product suite is designed to seamlessly connect to and work in harmony with major cloud infrastructure and service providers without compromising stringent data governance, compliance, and security requirements. ​


Microsoft Azure™ Services
  • Use the C3 AI Suite to leverage the full power of Azure services for the rapid design, development, deployment, and operation of next-generation AI applications​
  • Drive predictive insights, add business value, and solve previously unsolvable problems
AWS™ Services
  • ​Leverage the power of Amazon Web Services as part of a single-, multi-, or hybrid-cloud environment for developing, deploying, and operating next-generation AI applications​
  • Scale across a multiplicity of data sources to generate and operationalize predictive insights
Google Cloud™ Services

Seamlessly deliver the C3 AI Suite on Google Cloud Platform, leveraging its cutting-edge infrastructure and AI services as part of a multi or hybrid-cloud environment​.

Deployment Requirements for SparkBeyond Discovery Platform

Operating Systems

The following Linux distributions are supported:

  • CentOS 7.x
  • RHEL 7.x

Note: It is highly recommended to always run the latest version

Deployment Options
  • On-Premise
  • Client’s Public Cloud Instance (Azure, AWS and GCP)
  • Client’s Private Cloud Instance
  • SparkBeyond-Managed Instance (Azure, AWS and GCP)
Delivery Methods
  • Amazon Machine Image (AMI)
  • Azure VM Image
  • Google GCP VM Image
  • VMware Image
Deployment time estimates
  • 1-2 hours if deployed using a disk image (Azure, AWS, GCP and VMware)
  • 1-2 business days if deployed on-premise*

Note: Deployment on hardened systems may take more than two business days

Hardware Requirements for SparkBeyond Discovery

Example: 4 Users

On-Prem configuration for up to four concurrent jobs per machine
  • 160 GB RAM
  • 2 TB attached storage (SSD drive is highly recommended; storage size must be at least 10 times greater than the total estimated data size)
  • 20 vCPUs (10 cores with hyper-threading)
Cloud configuration for up to four concurrent jobs per machine
  • AWS:  minimum instance type is m4.10xlarge
  • Azure:  minimum instance type is E20s_v3
  • Google Cloud:  minimum instance type is n2-standard-48
  • For cloud deployment, the minimum instance specs are:
  • 160 GB RAM
  • 2 TB attached storage
  • 32 vCPUs (16 cores with hyper-threading)

Note: When it is not possible to allocate a single disk for the whole root filesystem (e.g Azure), the installation can be divided between two disks:

  1. A root disk (with a minimum of 32GB) mounted under /. In addition, it is highly recommended to allocate a sufficient amount of space for the /tmp directory (around 200GB),  so a root disk with 250GB in total would be ideal.
  2. An installation disk, mounted under /opt/sparkbeyond with the recommended size (500GB minimum).

This article is part of our “Always-Optimized” series exploring how businesses can harness AI technologies to drive continuous improvement across operations and strategy.
SparkBeyond Team

About SparkBeyond

SparkBeyond delivers AI for Always-Optimized operations. Our Always-Optimized™ platform extends Generative AI's reasoning capabilities to KPI optimization, enabling enterprises to constantly monitor performance metrics and receive AI-powered recommendations that drive measurable improvements across operations.

The Always-Optimized™ platform combines battle-tested machine learning techniques for structured data analysis with Generative AI capabilities, refined over more than a decade of enterprise deployments. Our technology enables dynamic feature engineering, automatically discovering complex patterns across disparate data sources and connecting operational metrics with contextual factors to solve the hardest challenges in customer and manufacturing operations.

Since 2013, SparkBeyond has delivered over $1B in operational value for hundreds of Fortune 500 companies and partners with leading System Integrators to ensure seamless deployment across customer and manufacturing operations. Learn more at SparkBeyond.com or follow us on LinkedIn.

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