Marketing description

Running as a Kubernetes service, OpenShift Data Foundation is engineered, tested, and qualified to provide data services for Red Hat OpenShift Container Platform on any infrastructure. OpenShift Data Foundation can also be decoupled and managed as a separate, independently scalable data store, delivering data for one or many Red Hat OpenShift Container Platform clusters.
Deployed, consumed, and managed through the Red Hat OpenShift administrator console, the platform is built upon Ceph, Noobaa, and Rook technologies, offering tightly integrated, persistent data services for Red Hat OpenShift in hybrid and multicloud environments. This level of integration removes the guesswork from running Kubernetes applications across multiple platforms and provides the data storage functionality, data services, and data protection that enterprises require. Dynamic, stateful, and highly available container-native storage can be provisioned and deprovisioned on demand.

Key selling points

• Simplified access and hybrid cloud data management
• Consistent experience for both users and developers across clouds for faster insights
• Dynamic scale, allowing organizations to start small and automate rapid data service growth

Product features

• Simplified access
  To increase agility, organizations need to reduce complexity for cloud-based applications and data, allowing rapid and flexible deployment of application data in any cloud. OpenShift Data Foundation ignites cross-team collaboration by providing simplified access to a consistent data platform experience. Self-service access from different user, developer, and administrator roles delivers storage on-demand with a click, not with a ticket. Easy to install, intuitive to monitor, and simple to start, organizations spend less time managing separate platforms and more time delivering value, allowing them to provide accessible data and support for all their Red Hat OpenShift apps; simplify data management across hybrid cloud while providing easy access, faster innovation, and instant insights.
• Consistent user experience
  Because OpenShift Data Foundation runs as a service in Red Hat OpenShift, users benefit from a consistent user experience independent of where the data resides. Whether you are building cloudnative apps with Kubernetes or just beginning your journey to cloud technology, your team gets a consistent hybrid cloud environment with intuitive data services across any infrastructure. Developers can build once and deploy anywhere. Data scientists get the ability to generate insights faster. Administrators can manage with consistency across cloud footprints, allowing them to deliver a unified end-user experience for data services for consistency across clouds and confidence across teams; provide an all-in-one view of Red Hat OpenShift data with a comprehensive on-demand data platform.
• Dynamic scale
  Moving to cloud technology cannot come at the expense of application performance. OpenShift Data Foundation supports scalability to multiple petabytes with resiliency and peak performance. Organizations can dynamically provision across any environment - bare metal, virtual machines, or hybrid cloud - all through the Red Hat OpenShift administrator console. Native object support in OpenShift Data Foundation dramatically increases input/output (I/O) performance, yielding performance at scale for every workload. Organizations can scale data services with the confidence to go anywhere and span any cloud; innovate at scale while supporting all types of Red Hat OpenShift workloads, allowing easy object data sharing across geographic locations and platforms.
• Embracing diverse workloads
  Most cloud providers support data storage for diverse workloads, but they typically do so with multiple storage technologies. Not only is this time consuming - complex to understand and manage - but it can lock applications into a given cloud vendor because other vendors offer a different mix of storage technologies and capabilities. In contrast, OpenShift Data Foundation provides container-native storage supporting data at rest, data in motion, and data in action. It supports multiple cloud platforms and works with a wide range of partners and technologies. Based on 100% open source technology, Red Hat OpenShift Data Foundation supports file, block, and object storage and employs a single set of Kubernetes operators across all cloud platforms. Organizations can provide software-defined storage for multiple workload types with a single solution, and applications can move easily between cloud platforms with compatibility. Popular use cases for OpenShift Data Foundation include data repositories and cloud-native application development, including continuous innovation/continuous deployment (CI/CD) models; structured data, including SQL/NoSQL databases and data warehouses; big data workloads such as data analytics and AI/ML workloads; container-aware data protection with backup and data resiliency support for both persistent volumes and Kubernetes namespaces.