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Storage has proven to be a bit of a challenge when setting up cloud native architectures. Perhaps the difficulty could be traced to one vital tenet: that all computing nodes (a container, say, or even serverless API) should be stateless. This means very simply that the node should not be keeping any data, either for long-term storage, or even for routing purposes. The reasoning is that a node can be moved anywhere at a moment’s notice, or be replicated.

So all storage must be somewhere else. But how does the compute node know where all its data is at? Plus, given that these workloads are distributed, the response times of these storage systems must be super low. These are the problems tackled by Cloud Service Providers (CSPs). Cloud service providers can ease developers’ tasks with automated cloud storage services, hiding some of the complexity where developers’ actions are not needed.

The major cloud providers — Amazon Web Services (AWS), Microsoft Azure and Google Cloud Platform (GCP) — all provide storage options that cut the need for separate storage administration, at least the kind that involves both hardware and software. If you want more independence, look for a scale-out storage package such as one from Portworx, Minio, or NetApp.

At The New Stack, we will keep an eye on the CSPs, as well as work going on around scale-out storage, or storage systems that can be expanded without reorganization or help from a storage admin, really. The Red Hat-managed open source Ceph falls into this bucket, for instance.

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Containers / DevOps / Networking / Storage

Portworx Provides a Container-Level Approach to Managing Stateful Applications

6 Apr 2017 9:12am, by Susan Hall

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Containers / Kubernetes / Storage

Containerization Leaders Explore Possible Standardized Data Storage Interface

24 Mar 2017 7:45am, by Scott M. Fulton III

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Cloud Native / Data / Storage

Forget the File System: The Future of Scalable Cloud Storage Will Be Objects

23 Mar 2017 7:03am, by Joab Jackson

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Data / Storage

Rubrik Takes on the Chores of Seamless Data Backup and Recovery

8 Mar 2017 3:00pm, by Benjamin Ball

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Culture / Edge / IoT / Serverless / Storage

Serverless Architecture: Five Design Patterns

7 Mar 2017 10:26am, by Mark Boyd

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CI/CD / Cloud Services / Development / Storage / Contributed

Don’t Write Off the AWS S3 Outage as a Fat-Finger Folly

7 Mar 2017 9:30am, by Lee Atchison

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Cloud Services / Culture / Development / Storage

Mobile Dev: Filestack’s Upload Macro Gets a Makeover

7 Mar 2017 1:00am, by Susan Hall

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CI/CD / Containers / Data / Kubernetes / Storage

Windocks Brings Containers to Microsoft Windows

1 Mar 2017 12:33pm, by Benjamin Ball

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Development / Security / Storage

Atlassian Augments BitBucket Cloud with Required Two-Factor Authentication, IP Whitelisting to

1 Mar 2017 9:46am, by Darryl Taft

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Cloud Services / Containers / Kubernetes / Storage

With Azure Container Service, Microsoft Works to Make Container Management Boring

24 Feb 2017 3:05am, by Mary Branscombe

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Cloud Services / Containers / Data / Monitoring / Security / Storage

Containers Pose Different Operational, Security Challenges for PCI Compliance

22 Feb 2017 11:00am, by Susan Hall

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Containers / Data / Development / Kubernetes / Storage

Deploy a Highly Available WordPress Instance as a StatefulSet in Kubernetes 1.5

13 Jan 2017 1:00am, by Janakiram MSV

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Data / Development / Serverless / Storage

A Trick to Reduce Processing Time on AWS Lambda from 5 Minutes to 300 Milliseconds

11 Jan 2017 8:15am, by TC Currie

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CI/CD / Development / Machine Learning / Storage

CES 2017: Buddy the Bot and Other Cool Electronics from the Show Floor

6 Jan 2017 12:21pm, by TC Currie

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CI/CD / Cloud Services / Containers / Security / Storage

SecureAuth Goes Beyond Two-Factor Authentication

26 Dec 2016 8:36am, by Kiran Oliver

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Cloud Native / Data / Kubernetes / Monitoring / Storage

The Classes of Container Monitoring

13 Dec 2016 7:20am, by Brian Brazil

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Culture / Edge / IoT / Storage

Scientists Insert ‘Lung-On-A-Chip’ On Chain-Smoking Machine To Study Lung Disease

11 Dec 2016 7:26am, by Kimberley Mok

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Storage

Sandstorm Uses Mega-Containerization to Offer Fine-Grained Access Control

21 Nov 2016 9:00am, by Susan Hall

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Data / Machine Learning / Serverless / Storage

SimilarWeb’s Cloud Infrastructure for Large-Scale Data Analysis

11 Nov 2016 8:57am, by Mark Boyd

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Containers / Storage

ClusterHQ Opens FlockerHub, a Repository for Data Volumes

4 Nov 2016 10:26am, by Scott M. Fulton III

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Containers / Kubernetes / Storage

Strategies for Running Stateful Workloads in Kubernetes: Pet Sets

4 Nov 2016 9:00am, by Janakiram MSV

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Cloud Native / Containers / Kubernetes / Microservices / Security / Storage

Apcera’s New Platform Brings Legacy Applications into the Container Fold

1 Nov 2016 1:30am, by Susan Hall

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Storage

Microsoft Prepped Windows Server 2016 for Ultra-Fast Persistent Storage

27 Oct 2016 8:26am, by Joab Jackson

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Cloud Native / Development / Serverless / Storage

How Bustle Uses a Serverless Architecture to Manage 52 Million Monthly Visitors

12 Oct 2016 9:32am, by Mark Boyd

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Culture / Storage

Vint Cerf Warns Humanity: Can Our Data Survive Longer Than A Century?

9 Oct 2016 6:19am, by David Cassel

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Storage

Apache Syncope Offers Open Source Single Sign-On Identity Management

4 Oct 2016 10:43am, by Susan Hall