For Hybrid, On-Prem Storage, Containers Need Fresh Approach
Search Storage, Friday, July 21,2023
Organizations want the flexibility of containers and the reliability of legacy storage. IT experts weigh in on how IT built for different eras can -- and needs to -- work together.
As organizations continue to build out their hybrid cloud infrastructure, the relationship between on-premises storage and cloud-native containers needs to evolve, from how IT teams communicate to how the infrastructure operates.
Legacy storage and containers have existed for decades with orchestration tools such as Docker and Kubernetes pushing containers into the mainstream in the last 10 years. But storage was built for a behind-the-firewall, array-dependent enterprise where SAN or NAS devices interact with VMs and servers -- not for a cloud-native infrastructure where containers provide flexibility, scalability and portability for application development and deployment.