Top 10 Cloud-Native Storage Platforms

Pure Storage is the creator of Portworx. Portworx helps developers and teams make the most of the cloud. Tightly integrated with Kubernetes, the Portworx landscape can deliver familiar workflows and operations to people in the DevOps environment. 

Portworx supports cloud-based block storage services like Google Compute Engine, Amazon EBS, Azure storage, and more. With Portworx, companies can enjoy a fully immersive solution for data protection, storage, disaster recovery, data security, and cross-cloud migrations.

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Defined as a leading cloud-native persistent storage solution for Kubernetes, StorageOS makes it easier for companies to access efficient cloud-native workflows. The StorageOS offering provides fast failover and high availability, so companies can stay agile. You can experiment with StorageOS through an interactive portal and create automated workflows for data storage.

Companies store their data wherever they choose, from the cloud to hybrid and on-premises environment, StorageOS then steps into abstract the information, providing a storage pool that offers the resiliency, scalability, and performance businesses need.

Designed by MayaData, Kubera is an open-source cloud-native storage offering that scales to suit you. When you purchase a Kubera license, you get all of the tools you need to monitor, tune, and run fast data workloads in a scalable landscape. Stability and resiliency is built-in from the ground up, ensuring you can save time on agile business decisions.

Kubera makes it quick and simple to monitor your environment, and you can even run operational audits to ensure that everything is working according to play. The whole system is enterprise-ready too, equipped with things like Active Directory connections, team policy, management, and compliance tools, and so much more.

The Robin.io cloud-native data storage solution provides businesses with an enterprise-ready environment where they can enable data and network-centric applications. The hyper-automation ready and app-aware storage environment speeds up the go-to-market cycle for applications and improves developer productivity significantly. Robin also promises to reduce complexity in operations and improve the way you use business resources. 

Popular among leading companies like Rakuten mobile, Robin.io enhances developer productivity, reduce costs, and ensures that you can avoid cloud lock-in issues. There’s even support for leveraging disruptive new technology like 5G.

Created for users of Rancher, the SUSE Kubernetes management platform, Longhorn is a high-level cloud native container storage system that emerged for the first time in 2020 and achieved 235% growth within a year. The company is now one of the market leaders in cloud-native storage, offering support to compute-everywhere opportunities for multi-national organisations. 

Longhorn is a robust Kubernetes-native storage solution that can also provide storage solutions on the Edge, for companies investing in applications and tools that require quick access to data. Longhorn and Rancher provide businesses with a storage solution hat drives more efficient container performance.

Trident is a dynamic persistent storage orchestrator for cloud containers. Created by the innovative NetApp company, Trident integrates natively with the Kubernetes environment, and the persistent volume framework to manage and provision volumes of data running any combination of NetApp management platforms.

As one of the biggest cloud storage specialists globally, NetApp has created a highly flexible and scalable solution with NetApp, designed to bring more opportunities to developers worldwide. NetApp already works with leading companies like AWS, Google Cloud, and Microsoft Azure.

Rook turns distributed storage systems into self-managing, self-scaling, self-healing storage services. It automates the tasks of a storage administrator: deployment, bootstrapping, configuration, provisioning, scaling, upgrading, migration, disaster recovery, monitoring, and resource management. Rook uses the power of the Kubernetes platform to deliver its services via a Kubernetes Operator for each storage provider.

Rook orchestrates multiple storage solutions, each with a specialized Kubernetes Operator to automate management. Choose the best storage provider for your scenarios, and Rook ensures that they all run well on Kubernetes with the same, consistent experience.

Ceph provides a unified storage service with object, block, and file interfaces from a single cluster built from commodity hardware components. Ceph can be relied upon for reliable data backups, flexible storage options and rapid scalability. With Ceph, your organisation can boost its data-driven decision making, minimise storage costs, and build durable, resilient clusters. This is a great option for companies working with data at scale in any organisation, any size, and any industry.

Ceph is designed to maintain high performance, low latency and no downtime. Spec your cluster to suit your needs - Ceph will run on any commodity hardware, allowing you full control over the capabilities and capacity of your cluster.

Created by LINBIT with native integrations for Kubernetes, the LINSTOR cloud-native storage solution makes managing and controlling block storage as simple as possible. This open-source software allows developers and teams to manage various block storage devices for larger clustered, with a host of various client and server components. 

LINSTOR saves crucial engineering time by reducing the need for manual resource management and reduces engineering issues with a better overview of clustered. The open-source environments means that you can protect your investments and avoid lock-in while ensuring resilient block-based storage.

Promising the most powerful Kubernetes platform available, Diamanti is a complete cloud-native storage platform for the modern developer. This purpose-built platform supports the management of Kubernetes clusters at any scale, with a single pane of glass where employees can track important data. Diamanti even delivers up to 30 times performance improvement for data-intensive apps, while protecting business infrastructure.

Offering state-of-the-art security and availability, Diamanti takes cloud-native solutions to the next level. This simple, secure, and fast Kubernetes platform works perfectly for the hybrid cloud and allows companies to offer the highest level of performance.