The latest version of Red Hat OpenShift Container Storage enables enterprises to apply added data resilience capabilities using existing data protection infrastructure.
Red Hat, Inc., the world’s leading provider of open source solutions, introduced new data resilience capabilities for cloud-native workloads with the release of Red Hat OpenShift Container Storage 4.6. This offering from Red Hat Data Services enables customers to extend their existing data protection solutions and infrastructure to enhance data resilience for cloud-native workloads across hybrid and multi-cloud environments.
As enterprises turn to Kubernetes technology to support business-critical applications, many IT organizations will also face increased demand for integrated scalability and data resilience. Red Hat OpenShift Container Storage 4.6 helps enterprises expand their existing data protection capabilities to include Kubernetes applications, without requiring additional technology or infrastructure upgrades.
Tightly integrated with Red Hat OpenShift, the industry’s leading enterprise Kubernetes platform, Red Hat OpenShift Container Storage 4.6 delivers enhanced data resilience features, including:
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Snapshot functionality orchestrated by the Container Storage Interface (CSI) for customizable, point-in-time snapshots and clones of persistent data volumes. This makes it easier for IT administrators and application developers to more quickly return to a prior state.
OpenShift APIs for Data Protection to correctly restore data and applications that run in container pods. Backup tools need a cluster resource context so that when applications are restored, they can find the namespaces associated with their persistent data. The OpenShift APIs for Data Protection operator enables Red Hat’s business partner ecosystem to more effectively integrate their data protection solutions with OpenShift, providing a more streamlined customer experience.
As per Ashesh Badani, senior vice president at Cloud Platforms, Red Hat “As businesses look to OpenShift for their cloud-native applications and data needs, and data resilience is one of the key challenges that Red Hat helps to address for them with the latest release of Red Hat OpenShift Container Storage. With our support of CSI-enabled snapshots and OpenShift API for Data Protection, Red Hat is enabling customers to natively achieve data resilience without having to replace their existing data protection infrastructure.”