Nexenta launched its inclusive plan and strategy for bringing enterprise and cloud grade storage and data management to container-based cloud-native application deployments. The open source-driven software-defined storage (OpenSDS) vendor blends container technology with its scale-out NexentaEdge software-defined storage solution, embracing microservice architectures to provide a high performance, enterprise-grade storage foundation for cloud-native applications.
As part of this initiative, Nexenta is joining the Open Container Initiative (OCI) and Cloud Native Computing Foundation (CNCF) which already includes vendors such as AT&T, Amazon Web Services, Cisco, Docker, EMC, Fujitsu, Google, Hewlett-Packard, IBM, Intel, Joyent, The Linux Foundation, Mesosphere, Microsoft, Nutanix, Oracle, Red Hat, Suse, Sysdig, Twitter, Verizon and VMware. It also merges container technology into NexentaEdge, enabling NexentaEdge nodes to be deployed as microservices on any scale-out cluster of Linux servers, providing high performance block and object storage services with enterprise grade functionality (inline deduplication, inline compression, unlimited snapshots and clones.
NexentaEdge is designed from the ground-up to deliver high performance block and object storage services and limitless scalability to next generation OpenStack clouds, petabyte scale active archives and big data applications. NexentaEdge runs on shared nothing clusters of Linux servers and builds on Nexenta IP and patent pending Cloud Copy On Write (CCOW) technology to break new grounds in terms of reliability, functionality and cost efficiencies.
The initiative also allows low latency data access between application microservices and NexentaEdge storage microservices running concurrently on the same server infrastructure, eliminating the overhead associated with traditional iSCSI block access methods and delivering true container-converged infrastructure. It also delivers unlimited container mobility across the entire cluster by leveraging NexentaEdge scale out architecture for any time, any server access to any container image or any application backend data; ensures integration and management of NexentaEdge storage microservices with Kubernetes; building ClusterHQ Flocker volume plug-ins for NexentaEdge and NexentaStor to support customers who prefer to keep compute and storage running on separate physical infrastructure, apart from being compatible with Canonical’s Juju, Charms and LXD.
The agility, simplicity and efficiency of microservices and container-based architecture have established them as the de facto standard for developers building cloud applications at scale. This is particularly true for stateless applications that require little or no persistent storage capability from the infrastructure.
As enterprises look for ways to bring these same agility, simplicity and efficiency benefits to stateful applications, the need for persistent storage solutions that integrate with and support container deployments has developed and come to the forefront.
Nexenta is actively working with its partners to address these emerging requirements with its open software-defined storage solutions, enabling customers to simply deploy cloud-native applications whether they require persistent storage or not. In the process, Nexenta is enabling true software-defined container-converged infrastructure: scale-out server based infrastructure that concurrently runs NexentaEdge storage microservices and application microservices, providing high performance persistent storage services and simple container mobility.
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