NetApp brings data portability to Kubernetes apps with Astra
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Data storage giant NetApp Inc. is delivering on its vision of Kubernetes application portability with the launch of a new service in general availability today.
The company is billing NetApp Astra as a fully managed, application-aware data management service for Kubernetes-based apps. It’s aimed at helping enterprises protect, recover and move their applications deployed on Kubernetes without needing to download, install, manage or upgrade any software.
Kubernetes is an open-source tool that’s used to orchestrate large clusters of software containers, which host the components of modern applications that can run on any kind of computing infrastructure. The technology has seen rapid adoption over the past few years, but it still causes a lot of problems for companies because of what analysts say is a dearth of persistent storage capabilities that containerized applications need to perf