[August 19, 2015]

Coho Data Leverages Containers to Redefine Enterprise Storage

Coho Data today announced integration of Docker containers and microservice orchestration support to allow third-party applications to run directly within its customers' enterprise storage systems. This new container-converged storage system turns traditional enterprise storage into a fully integrated data platform that adapts to efficiently fit the rapidly changing needs of today's enterprise environments.

Container Convergence Is a Bridge Between Old and New IT

With the emergence of containers as a development and deployment platform, enterprise IT administrators are quickly realizing the technology's potential to support internal development teams that demand fast cycle times and a wide range of new infrastructure features.

Coho's strategy and vision aim to bring this emerging trend to what is traditionally perceived as a standard storage platform. Coho provides the ability to run containers directly on the storage nodes and leverages Google's (News - Alert) Kubernetes interfaces for configuring and deploying microservices. This allows customers to run new data-centric services and applications directly adjacent to stored data.

According to Ashish Nadkarni, Research Director at IDC (News - Alert), "Coho Data has taken the lead in ushering in 'warpconvergence' - the ability to run containers right on the storage arrays. By leveraging Kubernetes for orchestration and provisioning, Coho Data is also seeking to standardize 'warpconvergence' beyond the container standard - which is right now a missing feature in hyperconverged platforms." For more details refer to the IDC Insight paper (IDC #255947, May 2015) titled "'Warpconvergence' - Coho Data Ushers in the Next Phase in Converged Infrastructure."

This platform offers many benefits to both new and existing customers, such as:

• Deep datacenter consolidation. Using containers allows workloads to be run where the data resides.
Application portability. Enabling containers, as well as an internally hosted Docker registry, opens up a wide catalog of applications that can be hosted within the single storage platform and allows for a community of contributors to extend and evolve Coho's data platform.
• End-to-end agility and reliability. Full container integration within the storage system enables faster, seamless provisioning; managing of compute and storage resources as a whole; and combining the speed and flexibility of containers with both network integration and enterprise-class data services.