InfoScale Container roadmap @ EMEA Technical Forum June 23, 2020
InfoScale is actively working on updated support for Containers. We're partnering with customers now... I will be presenting the new InfoScale Container strategy and roadmap for Kubernetes CSI-based Containers at the 2020 Veritas EMEA Technical Forum - High Availability and Disaster Recovery for Containers with InfoScale. I'll be covering persistent storage, replication, and HA. I encourage everyone to attend!Veritas InfoScale developing CSI plugin to support Kubernetes Containers
InfoScale provides persistent storage for Docker-based Containers. This solutions is used by NetBackup Flex appliances. Kubernetes has developed APIs that are now the de-facto standard for Containers. The Container Storage Interface, CSI, is used by storage providers to provide storage to Containers in Kubernetes, RedHat OpenShift, VMware Integrated Containers and Cloud container orchestration environments (Azure Cloud AKS, Google Cloud GKE, AWS Cloud ECS/EKS). The InfoScale team has been actively working on the development of a CSI plugin to support persistent storage for Kubernetes Containers. If you're interested in using InfoScale storage for persistent container storage and would like to partner with Veritas to discuss your environment, use case and requirements, please let us know.
Reflecting on DockerCon17
With the sold out DockerCon17 over it is time to reflect on the week. The weather was certainly nice and Austin is always a great place to visit but I am proud that we were gold sponsors of this important event and able to participate in, and contribute to, the energy. I sensed a lot of excitement, noted that the ecosystem is dynamic and evolving fast and felt that containers are on the cusp of really taking off.
The time is now to begin or expand on your container strategy
Today, Veritas enters the container storage ecosystem with the announcement of a new open source software solution that allows customers to package applications in “containers” for portability as well as gain predictable and consistent performance, through policies.Read the announcement!
S2EP1: Top benefits of the Veritas Flex Appliance
Customers are looking for solution that delivers true multi-tenancy in their data protection environment. Tune in for this podcast whereRoger Stein, Solutions Marketing, Veritas, interviews Chris Sparks, Product Manager, Veritas, on the Veritas Flex Appliance.
Breaking News! Veritas Doubles Appliance Offerings
Its big news! Since March we’ve double our appliances portfolio, launched our first storage system the Access 3340 Appliance, and the Flex Appliance, our first containerized data protection solution. The Access Appliance is a purpose-built storage solution for long term retention of backup and, archive data and other retention-type use cases such as video surveillance and healthcare PACs image data. Not surprisingly, The Access Appliance is built on our popular Veritas Accessscale-out NAS software. The Flex Appliance is a very clever platform for delivering Veritas data protection services including NetBackupand CloudCatalyst. Rather than running these appson dedicated servers, with the Flex Appliance, multiple data protection services are deployed in containers on a single appliance. Turn on a data protection or cloud tiering service as needed, without touching additional hardware. The containerized, microservices architecture of the Flex Appliance even goes a lot further than hyperconverged when it comes to simplifying infrastructure and the speed and ease of deployment as it supports multiple NBU domains and CloudCatalyst instances simultaneously. I can guess what you’re thinking. Why is Veritas offering more and more appliances when everything Veritas has been software defined? The primary reason; many of you in the community have asked us to. Particularly for Access. There’s a unique aspect to our appliances. A secret I'll share with my readers. Shhhhh. They’re still software defined. The software license is decoupled from the hardware we deliver it on. Here’s a couple examples of what I mean. Let’s say you purchase an Access 3340 Appliance, and a year from now you find a shiny, new storage server. You can move the Access software license to that new hardware. It also works the other way around. Maybe you’re running NBU software today on a white box server but want to upgrade to the Flex Appliance. No problem. That license you already have can be used to enable NBU on Flex (assuming minimum supported version, of course). Veritas appliances are really the best of both worlds. All the benefits of a software-based solution with the peace of mind that you’re not locked into Veritas hardware. I’m thinking we should have called them un-appliances. What do you think? Please add your thoughts and comments to the discussion.
