Open source enterprise software provider Red Hat has launched new capabilities for its OpenShift Container Storage, which works closely with its OpenShift Kubernetes platform, to provide its customers with enhanced data resilience features. Red Hat OpenShift Container Storage 4.6 adds snapshots, OpenShift APIs for Data Protection (OADP), and support for the new functionality by three backup solutions, with several more on the way.

“If you look at traditional bare metal and even virtualized environments, the state was usually more often than not tightly coupled with the application. It resulted in a very monolithic architecture, which has a lot of benefits, for sure, particularly when you think about disaster recovery, backup, those types of topics. It’s a very easy architecture to understand, and how to handle things like consistency and backups,” explained Pete Brey, marketing manager of hybrid cloud object storage at Red Hat. “With Kubernetes, it’s very different because state is separated from the applications in persistent volumes.”

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