Container Storage/Rise of Stateful Apps

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 ...

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 ...

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 ...

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 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 ...

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 ...

The SODA Foundation has added support for the container storage interface (CSI) used to attach storage systems running its open source software-defined storage (SDS) software to Kubernetes clusters. In addition to providing ...

IBM this week announced it will deliver, in the second half of this year, software-defined storage (SDS) embedded in containers that can be deployed anywhere. Eric Herzog, vice president for business development ...

Stateful applications: Whether or not you believe they belong in Kubernetes, the fact is most organizations run a combination of stateful and stateless workloads in containers. Stateful applications and workloads require back ...