NetApp on Wednesday in the US officially rolled out NetApp Astra, the company’s fully-managed, application-aware data management service targeting Kubernetes workloads in cloud-native and on-premises environments.
NetApp Astra, which was first introduced last year as Project Astra, is solving what has been the critical gap in Kubernetes, which is the need to unify application and data management, said Eric Han, vice president of product management for public cloud services at the storage vendor.
“Kubernetes has already solved the issue of persistent memory in workloads,” Han told CRN. “But once a volume is set, how to manage the application becomes the issue. Until now, customers have been doing it manually, or in multiple piecemeal steps at the infrastructure or application level. There has been no way to do it in a Kubernetes-native way.”