NetApp working on Application-Integrated Data Management for Kubernetes - Express Computer

NetApp the leader in cloud data services, today introduced Project Astra, a vision for a software-defined platform that is currently in development with the Kubernetes community. Project Astra will deliver the industry's most robust, easy-to-consume, enterprise-class storage and data services platform for Kubernetes that enables both application and data portability for stateful applications. Although companies everywhere are rapidly adopting Kubernetes, many organizations lack reliable data and application services, and have difficulty making application data as portable as the applicationsthemselves arein Kubernetes. Yet to meet the standards that CIOs expect, IT teams and site reliability engineers must find a way to store, govern, protect, and replicate the data for both stateless and stateful cloud-native applications with enterprise-class cloud storage and data services. Project Astra is being purpose-built for and in collaboration withKubernetes developers and operations managers to help bridge the fundamental gap that exists between the popularity of containers today,the capabilities and user experience they require, and their ability to deliver true, comprehensive portability.