The New Stack Article by Jason Bloomberg
The story of distributed computing over the past 50 years has been an exercise in complexity. From the on-premises days to the rise of virtualization to cloud computing and now the rise of cloud native computing, the power and business value of technology is matched only by its increasing complexity.
The current technology generation is the open source Kubernetes container orchestration platform. Kubernetes, and cloud native computing broadly, represent a paradigm shift in the way organizations build, implement and manage the massively scalable infrastructure that supports dynamic software deployment at scale.
Data Protection Evolves
Data protection technologies and processes have evolved apace. On-premises data protection centers on backing up storage volumes and databases. Virtualization raises the bar on data protection, as virtual machines are more dynamic and complicated than physical servers, and therefore more difficult to back up and restore.
Cloud computing provides new data protection options while complicating the challenge further. Cloud providers offer comprehensive abstractions that deliver both infrastructure and database as a service, requiring increasingly intelligent data protection policies that address various levels of abstraction.
Today, Kubernetes represents an entirely new set of challenges for data protection, necessitating intelligent policies that simplify the work of practitioners while automatically and proactively tackling complex data protection scenarios.
