Cloudian introduces Kubernetes S3 Operator

Growing Use of Containers Requires Paradigm Shift in Storage

Gartner predicts that by 2022 more than 75% of global organizations will be running containerized applications in production, up from less than 30% today.* Traditional SAN and NAS systems lack the flexibility and high-level, API-driven infrastructure these cloud-native workloads require. Cloudian addresses these requirements with a storage platform built on cloud-derived technology and the industry’s first native S3 API.

“Containers enable enterprises to develop new services more quickly, but traditional storage wasn’t designed for these modern workloads,” said Sanjay Jagad, senior director of products and solutions at Cloudian. “So while other storage providers are pushing complex, management-heavy products based on legacy platforms, Cloudian delivers simplicity itself: the industry’s most compatible S3 API and a lightweight Kubernetes operator. Developers gain self-serve agility and application portability, while operations teams benefit from Cloudian’s exabyte scalability, hybrid cloud management and exceptional value.” 

Cloudian Kubernetes S3 Operator

Deployed with Cloudian’s award-winning HyperStore object storage platform, the Kubernetes S3 Operator provides an API-driven management environment to quickly provision S3-compatible object storage. Other key features and benefits of this solution include:

• Simple and direct – Storage is provisioned and accessed directly by applications, with no gateways or translation layers.
• Enterprise-grade security – Features include encryption, IAM, SAML, WORM, RBAC and certification with the most rigorous regulatory requirements, such as Common Criteria, FIPS and SEC Rule 17a-4(f).
• Exabyte scalability – Starting from just three nodes and scaling up to an exabyte without interruption.
• Multi-site and multi-cloud support – Scale across multiple sites with single-namespace simplicity or extend into the public cloud using out-of-the-box integration with AWS, GCP and Azure that maintains data in its native format.
• Cost-effectiveness – Savings of more than 60% over traditional SAN and NAS systems and public cloud offerings.