Acquia has launched Multi-Experience Operations, an innovative upgrade to the Acquia Cloud Platform. This enhancement merges the efficiency and cost-effectiveness of the Drupal CMS platform’s multi-site architecture with the robust performance, scalability, and resilience of Acquia Cloud Next.
“A multi-site strategy can help an organization drive competitive advantage by increasing their presence in geographically dispersed markets or reach a multitude of different target audiences. Governance capabilities such as Multi-Experience Operations are essential to managing such a strategy with increased productivity and faster time-to-market, while keeping development and maintenance costs low,” said Tom Bianchi, Senior Vice President of Product and Solutions Marketing at Acquia.
Organizations often manage multiple websites to support various brands, business units, or geographical regions, alongside mobile and wearable applications. Drupal’s multi-site architecture enables for the sharing of a common codebase—encompassing the Drupal core, modules, and themes—across numerous websites, each maintaining its own database to ensure distinct content and settings.
Multi-Experience Operations now brings these benefits to the Acquia Cloud Next infrastructure, leveraging Kubernetes and Acquia’s unique Drupal optimizations to deliver dynamic auto-scaling that adjusts cloud capacity in seconds to manage high traffic loads and secure container-based software isolation, ensuring applications have the necessary resources for efficient operation.
In addition, this move enables enhanced application performance with up to five times the throughput of traditional MySQL server deployments, and self-healing infrastructure that maintains optimal cloud capacity and performance automatically.The tool complements other Acquia solutions designed to elevate multi-site management.
These include Acquia Site Factory, a centralized console for efficiently building, provisioning, and managing a portfolio of websites using standardized processes, and Acquia Site Studio, a low-code site builder that enables non-technical users to create and update websites with reusable components quickly.
