KubeCon+CloudNativeCon: Veritas Unveils InfoScale V.8 Software-Defined Infrastructure for Container Environments

At KubeCon+CloudNativeCon North America 2021, Veritas Technologies Inc. announced the next evolution of InfoScale software-defined infrastructure availability solution, that will enable customers to deploy InfoScale as containers in native Kubernetes platforms, including Red Hat OpenShift.

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Native deployment will make it to provide InfoScale’s high availability, persistent storage and storage optimization for stateful Kubernetes critical workloads.

“Containerization is revolutionizing the data center, allowing applications to burst and shrink their processing capacity to reduce costs and deliver scalability,” said Karthik Ramamurthy, VP, product management. “However, many organizations are hesitant to bring the benefits of containerization to mission critical applications that have historically relied on persistent storage. The Kubernetes-native deployment of InfoScale will deliver the features organizations need to migrate their most important applications into environments like OpenShift with confidence. This is a game changer for companies that want to take the training wheels off their Kubernetes deployments and realize the benefits where they really matter.“

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Evolution will begin with InfoScale 8, which will be available later this year and will enable enterprise customers and DevOps engineers to deploy following InfoScale features as containers:

• Software-defined persistent volume storage classes

• Dynamic and static persistent storage provisioning

• Non-disruptive scaling of persistent volumes

• Non-disruptive migration of persistent volumes

• REST APIs for third party integration

• Persistent volume snapshots

• Container lifecycle management

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InfoScale 8 will also be the first time the product is available as a Red Hat certified container application and Red Hat OpenShift Certified Operator available in the Red Hat Ecosystem Catalog with single-click deployment.

“As containers and cloud-native applications become more crucial to enterprise digital transformation, our customers are seeking expanded choice in the technologies that support these environments and workloads,” said Joe Fernandes, SVP, platforms business group, Red Hat, Inc. “InfoScale 8 adds a certified option for customers that want additional layers of resiliency and storage optimization for their OpenShift environments. We’re pleased to collaborate with Veritas as part of our broad partner ecosystem, helping our customers to select the solutions that best meet their unique needs, all certified on the enterprise Kubernetes platform.“

This anouncement builds on other recent InfoScale and NetBackup updates to support containerization, making the company data protection provider across physical, virtual, cloud and container environments.