3 years ago

Category: Software, Kubernetes

Cloud native object storage provider MinIO was selected as one of four storage companies to aid with VMware’s creation of its newly released vSAN Data Persistence platform. VMware’s platform aims to provide a way to run “stateful” cloud native applications on VMware’s infrastructure. The idea behind the partnership is to provision object storage directly from vSphere and can run, unmodified, on the vSAN Data Persistence platform. It addresses a disconnect in the industry where applications teams have chosen to use Kubernetes, but their IT support still controls the infrastructure, explained MinIO co-founder and CEO AB Periasamy.

Of the deployments of the MinIO object storage software, 61% of those instances are containerized, and 26% of all the Minio deployments, and 42% of those containerized instances, are managed via Kubernetes, said Symonds.