Symcloud Storage

For Kubernetes in any cloud

Symcloud Storage brings advanced storage and data management to any Kubernetes running distribution on premises or in any cloud. Symcloud Storage seamlessly integrates with Kubernetes-native administrative tooling such as Kubectl, Helm Charts, and Operators through standard APIs, CLI and an easy-to-use GUI. Developers and DevOps teams can deploy Symcloud Storage as a standard Kubernetes operator. The entire solution can be fully automated based on user-defined policies that automatically track all application and storage constructs over the lifetime of the solution, drastically reducing time to outcome and human error.

Symcloud Storage delivers unprecedented ease of use and automation, while delivering bare-metal performance at scale for your stateful, cloud-native applications (data + metadata + Kubernetes configuration). Symcloud Storage is built from the ground up with cloud-native constructs designed to provide a unique, automated cloud-native experience.

With Symcloud Storage, all lifecycle and data protection operations are performed in the context of the entire application-aware state (data + metadata + Kubernetes configuration), not just storage volumes. As a pioneer of application-aware cloud-native storage, Symcloud Storage understands your application's lifecycles, as well as the many functions and roles that make them up, including the in-depth interaction between storage and its everchanging Kubernetes application constructs.
Symcloud Storage makes it easy for developers, QA and Ops teams; they no longer need storage expertise to manage complex applications, and can instead focus on high-value projects.

The challenge of cloud-native Kubernetes and containerization

Kubernetes, although essential for next-generation cloud scale and automation, adds a layer of complexity when it comes to application data protection and disaster recovery. In the past, storage could easily be mapped to a host or a virtual machine (VM). Hence, data protection and recovery mechanisms were centered around storage only. But, with container-based solutions, like Kubernetes, the application is deconstructed into multiple components that will scale independently and have different relationships with your data. Therefore, in the case of application cloning, storage scaling, migration, replication, environment changes and recovery, the relationship between applications and their data becomes critical. Both must be managed together as a whole to achieve accurate and immediate outcomes.

Why stateful applications need Kubernetes-aware storage

Kubernetes was initially designed for stateless workloads. Stateful workloads need a storage layer that is Kubernetesand application-aware to accelerate data management, provisioning and data protection. Kubernetes does not actively manage the underlying storage for stateful workloads, and relies on an external interface called the Container Storage Interface (CSI). Symcloud Storage uses the CSI to deliver the industry's most robust stateful application support across any cloud and environment. It is fully automated to drastically reduce recovery time, migration time, and human error, while introducing industryleading functionality.