Session: Containerized clustered filesystems for new-age business applications in Cloud
Today large business applications with heavy information workload can run in the public cloud for various products and services. These applications need to be scalable to be able to grow and shrink based on business needs. They also need to be robust and have high availability. To meet these requirements enterprises are adopting application modernization by containerizing applications rapidly and deploying them in a clustered environment.
But containers are stateless by design as they need to be scalable and easily maintainable. But since stateful applications are containerized there is a need for persistent storage to retain application data for long time. For containerized business applications, this leads to the requirement of having storage which is scalable, highly available and accessible across geographies. Containerized Clustered Filesystems fulfils this need as it uses multiple storage systems which can reside in different geographical locations, and it can be scaled up or down based on business requirements.
This presentation will give information about Containerized Clustered filesystems which can help to meet storage requirements for new-age business applications.
The presentation will cover the below points:
1) What are containers, advantages of containerized applications and their need for storage
2) Options for providing persistent storage for containers
3) Advantages of Containerized clustered filesystems and its overview
4) Quick summary of how containerized IBM Spectrum Scale storage product helps to meet business application demands
Bio
Madhu Thorat is working as a Cloud Technical lead at IBM. She has 17+ years of experience in the Software industry and for the past few years she has been working in Cloud storage area. Her current focus is on Container Storage Interface Driver for Cloud Storage, to enable containers for Cloud.
She has presented in various conferences such as International Conference of High Performance Computing (HPC) Japan 2022, Gracehopper (GHCI) conference and IBM Regional Technical Exchange (RTE) conference.
Madhu is an active blogger on relevant technical topics and her blogs can be found on linkedin (www.linkedin.com/in/madhu-thorat-punjabi) and https://wordpress.com/home/madhumthorat.wordpress.com
She also has 2 US patents which are listed on linkedin (www.linkedin.com/in/madhu-thorat-punjabi)
Madhu strongly supports initiatives that support women pursuing careers in STEM fields. She is a core team member of the “IBM ISDL Pragathi” group, which is responsible for taking various initiatives for women employees in IBM India Labs.