Most of the top storage vendors are moving to storage as a service solution. Exploring all the ecosystem components including open source solutions to build a complete data management solution on top of the existing storage capabilities. The intensity of this move is accelerated as more cloud-native and hybrid use cases are in demand. In this session, we will see an overall architecture for a typical stack with key data management including data protection and monitoring across existing storage infrastructure. We will also see how this trend is shaping container and cloud-native storage.

Container Application deployments are growing exponentially, and so as the challenges with container data protection. Users are first worried to ensure the data backup for their deployments. Kubernetes provides data backup features through CSI. Is that sufficient? What are the new demands and challenges? What are the solutions to the challenges? How can we ensure container data backup beyond the CSI supported features? This session tries to answer these questions. Also, it discusses the current state of Kubernetes native data protection solutions.