Container Storage/Rise of Stateful Apps

Serverless Monitoring Best Practices
Serverless monitoring demands a new approach, combining structured logs, meaningful metrics and distributed traces with advanced cost controls and automation to keep applications fast, resilient and efficient ...

Why Cloud-Native Contact Centers Are Becoming an Industry Standard
The direction of travel is toward autonomous contact centers, where systems self-heal, auto-optimize and predict customer needs before they arise ...

Open Source Isn’t Free: The Sustainability Crisis in Cloud-Native
Companies can — and should — be better stewards of the open source projects they rely on. Financially support them. Contribute back code ...

CNCF Adds Additional Cloud Native Certifications
The Cloud Native Computing Foundation (CNCF) at the KubeCon + CloudNativeCon Europe 2025 conference today made two platform engineering certificates designed for IT professionals ...

Tips For Stateful Kubernetes Data Backup And Recovery
All systems need a plan for data backup and recovery. It doesn’t matter if your application’s running on the cloud, on-premises or in a refrigerator at the edge of a network—it will ...

Building Stateful Apps on K8s Takes a Village
Running stateful, often business-critical applications in Kubernetes is increasingly common. It’s simple, right? Kubernetes just wants fast, simple access to persistent volumes and databases. With the right storage management, optimization, automation and ...

High Availability for Containerized SQL Server in K8s
Containers have numerous benefits for IT operations. But when it comes to using containerized stateful workloads, such as Microsoft SQL Server, a key obstacle remains: Implementing high availability (HA). Kubernetes is well ...

The Challenges of Kubernetes Storage
In this episode of The View with Vizard, Cloudian CTO Gary Ogasawara joins host Mike Vizard to explain the challenges of Kubernetes storage. The video is below, followed by a transcript of ...

Windocks Extends Reach of Cloud-Native Data Repository
Windocks has extended a cloud-native data repository, which is based on an instance of the Docker container format, to add support for Oracle, PostgreSQL, MySQL and NoSQL database platforms in addition to ...

5 Reasons to Back Up Kubernetes Applications
Software containers are at the heart of cloud-native business transformation initiatives, and they are a natural evolution from virtual machines to a more granular and portable application environment in clouds. Containers are ...