Robin.io Announces Technology Collaboration with Red Hat to bring Advanced Data Management to Power Stateful Applications on Red Hat OpenShift

Robin Storage, an application-aware container native block storage, achieves Red Hat OpenShift Operator Certification and will be featured on the OperatorHub

BOSTON, MA, Red Hat Summit – May 8, 2019 – Robin.io, provider of the industry-leading Kubernetes platform, today announced that it has joined Red Hat’s technology partner program, Red Hat Partner Connect, and Robin Storage has achieved Red Hat OpenShift Operator Certification. OpenShift Operator Certified, the Robin Storage Operator provides advanced data management capabilities for running enterprise-class stateful workloads on OpenShift.

Robin Storage will be featured on the OperatorHub and by declaring it as the storage class, Operators and applications can gain the data management capabilities for more effective life cycle management. Backed by the engineering-engineering partnership with Google Cloud Platform that was announced at the recent Google Cloud Next ‘19, Robin Storage enables customers to bring enterprise-class stateful & data-intensive applications including MySQL, Postgres, MongoDB, MariaDB, Elastic, Kafka, Splunk etc. to Kubernetes platforms such as GKE/Anthos and Red Hat OpenShift.

The Robin Storage Operator on OpenShift brings:

• Application-aware storage with advanced data management capabilities to Kubernetes-native frameworks including Helm and Operators
• Bare-metal performance for running enterprise-critical applications
  Enterprise-class data services such as inline compression, thin provisioning and data-at-rest/at-motion encryption.
• Powerful hybrid cloud capabilities such as cloning an application using the snapshot feature and rehydrating in multiple availability zones
• Support for rapid failover of pods to meet enhanced application SLAs

Robin Storage is architected from the ground up to address the needs of customers implementing a hybrid strategy and/or multi-cloud strategy which involves migrating apps plus data from on-premises data centers to the cloud. The OpenShift Operator Certification provides additional validation for customers running Robin Storage with Red Hat OpenShift to have a more seamless experience when onboarding enterprise-class stateful workloads.

“The number of stateful workloads being deployed in containers by public cloud infrastructure as a service (IaaS) providers and the number of pulls from container registries of popular repositories, such as MongoDB, MySQL and PostgreSQL, is rapidly increasing,” according to a January 29, 2019 Gartner report, An I&O Leader’s Guide to Storage for Containerized Workloads, by VP Analyst, Julia Palmer and Distinguished VP Analyst, Arun Chandrasekaran.

“We’re excited about collaborating with Red Hat, a leader in the Kubernetes ecosystem, and Robin Storage being a certified block storage solution for OpenShift to run stateful applications,” said Partha Seetala, Co-Founder and CTO of Robin.io. “Robin Storage allows all lifecycle operations to be performed in the context of the entire application, not just the storage volumes — making a difference for enterprises. We look forward to a long relationship with Red Hat to support OpenShift customers in modernizing stateful applications to achieve greater agility, efficiency and portability.”

“In working with Robin.io in the Red Hat OpenShift Operator Certification we are thrilled that Robin.io Operator is available on Red Hat OpenShift Container Platform, the industry’s most comprehensive enterprise Kubernetes platform,” said Julio Tapia, director, Cloud Platforms Partners Ecosystem, Red Hat. “Kubernetes Operators are appealing because they help encode the human operational logic normally required to manage services running of a Kubernetes-native application and aim to make day-to-day operations easier. By providing Operators on Red Hat OpenShift, users can begin experiencing the next level of benefits from a Kubernetes-native infrastructure, with services designed to ‘just work’ across clouds where Kubernetes runs.”

About Red Hat Operators and OperatorHub.io

Introduced by CoreOS in 2016, and now championed by Red Hat and a large portion of the Kubernetes community, the Operator pattern enables a fundamentally new way to automate infrastructure and application management tasks using Kubernetes as the automation engine. With Operators, developers and Kubernetes administrators can gain the automation advantages of public cloud-like services, including provisioning, scaling, and backup/restore, while enabling the portability of the services across Kubernetes environments regardless of the underlying infrastructure.

Availability: Robin Storage Operator will be available on the Operator Hub.io and as a Red Hat OpenShift Certified Operator. Robin is showcasing the solution at the Robin booth, #225, at the Red Hat Summit in Boston, MA from May 7-9, 2019. Robin Storage is also available at Google Cloud Platform Marketplace. For more info https://robin.io/solutions/robin-storage-openshift/

About Robin.io

Robin.io brings advanced storage and data management that extend the Agility, Efficiency and Portability of Kubernetes to All Stateful Applications, even complex Big Data, Databases, AI/ML and Custom Apps, on Any Infrastructure, On-Premise, Hybrid Cloud or Multi-Cloud. Robin Platform is the industry’s first hyper-converged solution that enables big data, databases and AI/ML as a Service on Kubernetes. Robin Storage delivers bare-metal performance and enables powerful data management capabilities such as snapshots, backup and migration to support even the most demanding data-intensive workloads. With a team that includes industry veterans from leading enterprise technology companies such as IBM, Microsoft, NetApp, Oracle, Red Hat and Veritas, Robin.io seeks to reinvent IT Infrastructure and put the focus back on what matters most – The Applications. The San Jose California-based company is backed by leading investors such as Clear Ventures, DN Capital, USAA and Hasso Plattner Ventures.

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