Google Cloud Next: Robin.io in Partnership With Google Cloud

Robin Systems, Inc. (Robin.io), provider of an Hyper-converged Kubernetes platform, partnered with Google Cloud to bring storage and data management capabilities to Google Cloud’s Anthos.

As part of the partnership:

• Company’s engineers are collaborating with Google Cloud to design standardized APIs for data management capabilities needed for running data-centric workloads in Google Kubernetes Engine (GKE).
• Robin storage is a storage solution that has been tested and validated to support enterprise workloads in Anthos.

The firm has collaborated with Google in developing the Anthos Storage API. As part of this collaboration, it provided feedback on the design of application-level snapshotting, backup and cloud portability.

These data management services represent an evolution of the current for running stateful workloads in GKE. They elevate the experience from performing data management at the storage volume level into true application-centric data management for Helm charts and Operator Framework.

Robin storage delivers bare-metal performance and enables powerful data management capabilities such as snapshots, backup and migration to support even some of the most demanding data-intensive workloads. Enabled by Robin storage, Anthos includes GKE and Istio, offers support for running enterprise workloads without having to re-architect them as cloud native applications.

Kubernetes is gaining rapid adoption and enterprise customers are demanding the ability to run broader sets of workloads including stateful applications on Kubernetes. A persistent storage platform with data management capabilities helps to address the needs of these stateful applications in an enterprise production environment.

“Choose storage solutions aligned with micro-services architecture principles and adhere to the requirements of container-native data services, such as being hardware-agnostic, API-driven, based on distributed architecture, and capable of supporting edge, core or public cloud deployments,” advises Arun Chandrasekaran, distinguished VP analyst, Gartner, Inc.

Robin storage is a CSI-compliant block storage solution with bare-metal performance and data management capabilities which are exposed through standard APIs that integrates with Kubernetes-native administrative tooling such as Kubectl, Helm Charts and Operator Framework. It is architected to address the needs of customers looking to implement a hybrid strategy or migrate from on-premises data centers to the cloud. It enables hybrid cloud use cases such as cloning a snapshot and rehydrating in multiple Anthos availability zones. It also offers flexibility in being able to leverage existing investments in storage infrastructures like DAS/NAS/SAN from vendors and offers a single plane for advance data management capabilities across hybrid cloud implementations.

“We’re excited about the partnership with Robin.io to bring advanced data management capabilities to Google Cloud’s Anthos to enable our customers to modernize their existing enterprise applications with cloud native infrastructure,” said Nikhil Kasinadhuni, director of engineering, Google Cloud.

“We’re thrilled to partner with Google Cloud in bringing advanced data management capabilities to GKE via Robin Storage to power enterprise workloads. Robin Storage offers bare metal performance, powerful data management capabilities and Kubernetes-native management to support running enterprise applications on Google Cloud’s Anthos across on-premises data centers and the cloud,” said Premal Buch, CEO, Robin.io.

Robin storage is available on the Google Cloud Platform Marketplace, and both companies showcased the solution in the session titled, “Anthos Storage: Seamless Data Management for Kubernetes,” at Google Next 2019.

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