Cloud Native Storage for Cloud Native Applications

As container platforms such as Kubernetes have become a foundation of modern application deployment, organizations have expanded container use to power databases and other stateful applications. However, a containerized environment is only as good as the data platform it draws from. While legacy data stores are now being retrofitted to serve data via cloud native APIs, their architectures have not changed and continue to impose tradeoffs upon infrastructure that limit the ability for container platforms to scale cost-effectively and with the resilience required in today’s world of ever-growing big data.

Until VAST, container platforms have had to choose from high-performance yet inelastic options such as DAS or SAN or elastic yet slow storage options such as enterprise NAS. In all cases, no legacy solution has been designed to remedy the added expense of flash infrastructure such that it can be affordable enough for all data. The expense of legacy flash leaves organizations deploying tiered storage options that forces users to value and devalue data as it moves across tiers, complicating application performance and compute efficiency for big data and machine learning applications.

For the first time in 20 years, VAST Data has introduced a new type of distributed system architecture. VAST's Disaggregated and Shared Everything (DASE) storage system was built from the ground up to eliminate the tradeoffs imposed by legacy scale-out architectures. Our Universal Storage system was engineered to deliver the performance and I/O parallelism of SAN storage while providing the simplicity and elasticity of NAS - while making all-flash infrastructure affordable enough that you never need to think about storage tiering again.