Tessell provides a fully-managed database service that optimizes cloud database performance and reduces total cost of ownership by over 40% through infrastructure right-sizing and database consolidation. The platform ensures high availability, data protection, and simplified management, enabling enterprises to achieve significant ROI while minimizing operational complexities.
Funding
$34M raised to dateRaised to date based on public sources. This may differ from the amount the company actually raised and is based only on what is publicly available on the internet.
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Product
Problem
Enterprises face challenges in managing cloud databases, including infrastructure inefficiencies, high licensing costs, and operational complexities related to ensuring high availability and data protection. Traditional cloud database solutions often require manual right-sizing and lack automated consolidation capabilities, leading to increased total cost of ownership.
Solution
Tessell provides a fully-managed Database-as-a-Service (DBaaS) platform that optimizes cloud database performance and reduces total cost of ownership. The platform leverages infrastructure right-sizing and database consolidation techniques to improve resource utilization and lower licensing expenses. Tessell automates database lifecycle management, including deployment, patching, and upgrades, while ensuring high availability through multi-AZ configurations and cross-region disaster recovery. Its API-first architecture enables integration with Terraform and other infrastructure-as-code tools, simplifying management across development, testing, and production environments.
Target Audience
Tessell targets cloud-born and cloud-defining enterprises seeking to reduce database costs, improve performance, and simplify management across multi-cloud environments.
Features
- Automated database consolidation and infrastructure right-sizing for optimal resource utilization
- Support for multiple database engines, including Oracle, MySQL, PostgreSQL, SQL Server, MongoDB, and Milvus
- High-performance NVMe-based storage options delivering up to 2 million IOPS
- Multi-AZ high availability, cross-region disaster recovery, and automatic failovers with near-zero RTO/RPO
- API-first architecture for automation with Terraform, REST APIs, and other languages
- Integration with AWS and Azure Marketplaces for simplified deployment
- BYO cloud account, networks, and security policies for enhanced control
- Data encryption at rest and in transit with custom encryption keys