Opposites attract. Stateful and stateless.
Storage and container management systems are almost polar opposites of each other. One deals with permanently storing, and protecting data for as long as it’s needed. The other automatically manages highly dynamic workloads, scaling resources up and down as required.
More organisations are taking a container-first approach to application deployment and management, but the underlying challenge of safely and securely storing data still remains the same. Any storage system needs to be able to protect against hardware failure and maintain the availability of an organisation’s most important asset – its data.
Data growth happens alarmingly quickly, it is estimated that more than 2,500 PetaBytes (PB) of new data is created every day. Thankfully, this is distributed across many organisations so no one has to deal with this kind of growth on their own, yet. Scale-out storage…
