Container approach and Kubernetes has a fundamental drawback and it's incredible that such adopted technologies was released with a stateless model. It was since the beginning a missing element as it is a key requirement for enterprise adoption. Cloud models imply workload mobility and therefore the storage persistence is paramount.
Robin Cloud Native Storage aka CNS sits above all flavors of Kubernetes with K8S, OpenShift, Anthos, IBM, GKE, AKS or EKS running on-premises or in the cloud. And even if the company is a bit confidential, several Fortune 500 companies have adopted the solution, we can list Credit Suisse, BNP Paribas, SAP or Rakuten. Palo Alto Networks for instance uses it to manage 6PB, 2.5PB at USAA and 400 databases in production for Sabre, the famous mission critical flight ticket system.
It exists several products on the market and Robin has insisted on 3 differentiators: design and built from the ground-up as for Robin being a pure solution is a value, bare-metal performance, yes this one is key and seamless integration with application with rich features and services set. Among them we can list: being cloud-native, offers HA/BC with replication, resync and failover with split-brain control, placement policies to elect compute and storage at the right place, bare-metal performance that accelerates adoption, dynamic online storage management, full visibility and services such clones, snapshots and backup/restore. But again the data application consistency is a key aspect especially as these applications are potential candidates for movements.
The team has shared with us some benchmarks reports about Robin CNS impact and we see that the overhead vs. baremetal is really minimal.
The second key aspect is around the application integration and must satisfied developers needs. In fact, this population makes decision aligned to applications they develop and build globally. The CNS solution must be flexible with a GUI, API and CLI interfaces.
To boost adoption, the company has started an offensive with a Free Forever Edition limited to 5 nodes and 10TB. It will probably boost at lest the visibility, per haps the adoption and therefore many of them will keep the product and extend to the full Enterprise flavor. This Enterprise edition is priced per node hour with unlimited capacity.
Robin CNS is super rich, probably one of the richest in this domain and we understand why Robin is the radar of several acquirers. This has accelerated with the deal between MayaData and DataCore, Portworx acquisition by Pure Storage and Kasten by Veeam. We'll see but I won't be surprised...
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