Granica platform FAQ
Get answers to common questions about the Granica platform.
What is Granica?
The Granica AI Data Readiness platform is a suite of services to help data-hungry organizations build and manage high quality data for AI, at scale. Our platform uses AI to continuously improve data, making analytical, ML and AI projects faster and more effective over time. Simply put, Granica increases the safety, efficiency, and effectiveness of AI.
Does my data leave my environment?
No it does not. Granica uses a self-managed, cloud-prem (i.e. private) deployment model in your public cloud environment. Only control plane data and telemetry metrics are shared with Granica corporate systems and employees.
What is the Granica deployment model?
Granica is deployed as managed software that runs in your AWS or GCP cloud account. Granica consists of a control and data plane that is lightweight; is deployed together with the first Granica product you choose to use; and provides shared infrastructure and services to all subsequently deployed Granica products.
How do I integrate Granica into my environment?
Granica typically processes your data in the background, reading from and writing to cloud storage without requiring any application integration. Some services provide an API/SDK to integrate with your applications. For more, see how Granica Crunch works.
How do you ensure my deployment is a success?
Your Granica instance generates usage, system health and performance telemetry data which is automatically shared with Granica engineering and support teams to enable predictive analysis, alerting, troubleshooting, and overall success. Telemetry data is preserved in a cloud storage bucket unique to each customer and deployment, entirely separate from customer data. No customer data is ever collected or analyzed.
How do I undo a Granica deployment?
At any time you can uncrunch any data already processed by Granica Crunch to return it to its original form, and then teardown your deployment to return your environment to its pre-Granica state. See the CLI reference for details.
How do you ensure high availability?
Granica provides HA via the native capabilities of Kubernetes clusters in AWS (via EKS) and Google (via GKE), configured to use multiple availability zones. Both EKS and GKE provide an SLA of 99.95% availability.
How do you achieve exabyte-level scale?
Granica automatically scales out additional nodes to dynamically handle arbitrarily large data volumes. Scaling is completely elastic — as load decreases, Granica automatically shuts down unneeded nodes. This minimizes operational costs and maximizes your savings from Crunch.