In this episode, Martin and Chris are joined in conversation by Alex Chircop, CEO at StorageOS. The company has announced StorageOS V2.0, a significant evolution in their storage platform, built for containers using containers.

As this episode explains, the version 2.0 release of StorageOS enhances scalability and resiliency, with a strong focus on features needed for enterprise adoption. Each volume presented to a container now has a “mini-brain” to implement much more distributed application awareness.

Availability is increased through the use of Delta Sync, a new technology to ensure data volumes are recovered to a consistent state within as short a time as possible. Security has also been a big focus, with data encrypted at rest and in transit. APIs all now use authentication and there’s an internal certificate authority to mitigate the complexity of certificate management.

StorageOS is free for the first 500GB and delivered through the freemium model. Platform documentation can be found here – https://docs.storageos.com/docs/

More information on the v2.0 announcement is here in this press release and blog post. Alex references the self-evaluation guide, which can be found here along with details to register for the 500GB free access.

Alex references the CNCF storage landscape white paper developed by the CNCF Storage SIG. A copy can be found here.

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Timeline

* 00:00:00 – Intros* 00:01:00 – KubeCon postponed to August* 00:02:22 – What is StorageOS?* 00:05:35 – StorageOS builds in data resiliency* 00:08:25 – Container storage requires more application awareness * 00:10:15 – StorageOS scores workloads to manage physical data placement* 00:11:30 – There’s no dependency on a specific container platform* 00:13:50 – Container storage is changing the assumptions about storage requirements * 00:15:10 – What is new in StorageOS version 2? * 00:17:15 – The adoption of containers is adapting the development of StorageOS * 00:20:00 – Consistent deterministic performance is essential, even with component fluctuations  * 00:22:10 – Version 2 introduces more flexible federated capabilities 00:23:00 – StorageOS now includes much greater embedded encryption & security controls * 00:25:30 – How do customers upgrade from StorageOS v1 to v2? * 00:28:00 – What experiences and feedback is there from customers? * 00:30:10 – Storage is becoming part of the application workflow process * 00:34:45 – Call to action – where can users find more?

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Related Podcasts & Blogs

* #35 – The Spectre of Meltdown with Alex Chircop* #139 – Storage Predictions for 2020 (Part II)* Building Data Storage with Containers