Robin.io announced enhancements to Robin Cloud
Native Storage for Kubernetes and the immediate availability of Robin
Express, a full-featured, free-for-life edition.
Robin Express complements the company's enterprise-focused offering, Robin
Enterprise, which offers 24x7 enterprise support, unlimited node and
storage capacity, and true "per-node-hour," consumption-based pricing.
"In launching the Express edition of Robin Cloud Native Storage, we're
doing something truly novel: we're delivering all the features of our
product in our free offering, for life," said Partha Seetala, founder and
CEO at Robin.io. "Most companies
give customers a scaled-back version of the product to test drive and
then try to charge them when they want to try other features, or they
offer a trial of the product for a limited time. Although we are limiting the
capacity to 5 nodes and 5 TB, we're not blocking any features, and
we're providing access for life. We want our users to experience all the
benefits Robin Cloud Native Storage has to offer. When their
organizational needs scale to enterprise level, we're confident the power
of our solution and our low-cost, consumption-based pricing structure
will make the move to our Enterprise edition a no-brainer."
Robin Cloud Native Storage is a purpose-built, container-native storage
solution that brings advanced data management capabilities to Kubernetes.
It is a CSI-compliant block storage solution with bare-metal performance
that seamlessly integrates with Kubernetes-native administrative
tooling such as Kubectl, Helm Charts, and Operators through standard APIs.
Robin Cloud Native Storage recently added multi-cloud
portability for complex stateful applications, launched on RedHat OpenShift
Marketplace, was named IDC Innovator
for containerized storage, and was recognized in the GigaOm
Radar for Kubernetes storage as a leader and outperformer.
"Out of the 20 Kubernetes storage solutions we reviewed, we ranked Robin.io among three leaders, owing to its
innovative and application-focused approach to Kubernetes data storage and
management," said Enrico Signoretti, senior data storage
analyst, GigaOm. "The Robin.io
solution differentiates on its application management capability. It
enables the user to automate and simplify several aspects of
application deployment, data management, and protection while providing
better quality of service (QoS) and disaster recovery options."
Stateful Applications on Kubernetes are on the Rise
Popular databases and data-centric applications such as PostgreSQL, MySQL,
MongoDB, Redis, MariaDB, Cassandra, Elasticsearch and many more are
increasingly being containerized and moved to Kubernetes-managed
environments, giving rise to a need for storage and data management
solutions that can address the unique needs of stateful applications on
Kubernetes.
"Robin Cloud Native Storage works with any workload on any
Kubernetes-based platform and on any cloud," said
Seetala. "With capabilities for storing, taking snapshots, backing
up, cloning, migrating and securing data-all with the simplest of
commands-Robin Cloud Native Storage offers developers and DevOps teams a
super simple yet highly performant tool for quickly deploying and
managing their enterprise workloads on Kubernetes."
Highlight capabilities of Robin Cloud Native Storage include:
- Bare-metal storage performance with high
availability
- Application-consistent snapshots to recover easily
from user errors
- Application-consistent backups to recover easily
from system failures
- Thin clones to collaborate faster across teams
- Multicloud portability to easily migrate entire
applications across clouds
Today's major release version of Robin Cloud Native Storage features these
enhancements:
- Data management for Helm Charts: Helm is the most
popular package manager and deployment mechanism
on Kubernetes. With Robin, you can now easily snapshot,
backup, and migrate an entire Helm release as a single entity
- Data locality (compute-storage affinity) for
performance-sensitive workloads
- Affinity and Anti-affinity policies to support the
availability needs of stateful applications that rely on distributed
databases and big data platforms
- Consumption based pricing for Robin Enterprise:
Pay only for what you use