Over the past several years, Veritas Technologies LLC has added new features and capabilities to its InfoScale technology. The software-defined bridge between tier-one applications and infrastructure was combined with Veritas’ NetBackup and Information Studio tools in mid-2019, and the company followed that up by further integrating its InfoScale portfolio with Pure Storage Inc.’s FlashArray last fall.

Now Veritas has extended InfoScale’s capabilities in the container space.

“We’re taking the same availability offering that we’ve done very well with physical, cloud and virtual environments and bringing that forward to containers,” said Paul Sustman (pictured), product manager for InfoScale storage and availability products at Veritas. “As adoption happens more and more in the container environment, as people realize there’s a lot of advantages to the container versus a virtual machine, they’re looking to take applications and lift and shift them to a container environment. That’s what we’re seeing right now.”

Sustman spoke with Stu Miniman, host of theCUBE, SiliconANGLE Media’s livestreaming studio. They discussed a need for storage alternatives in enterprise environments and how customers intend to use Veritas’ container technology to drive business. (* Disclosure below.)

Avoiding wasted space

The latest offering from Veritas is designed to address issues facing storage and containers. These include wasted space in block-level storage presented from a disk array and data integrity issues with network file system, according to Sustman.

“It’s an opportunity for customers to have other storage which is persistent, highly available, and higher performance for use with their containers other than NFS or block storage,” Sustman said. “We’re also taking some of the technology that we have done around Availability Suite and taking that forward into containers.”

The changes to InfoScale will also include monitoring applications inside the container and working with Kubernetes to collaborate on orchestration. This will be important to Veritas InfoScale customers, which include 11 out of the 12 top airline reservation systems and 19 of the 20 top investment banks, according to Sustman.

“These are companies that use InfoScale to drive their business, not just in application, but to keep their business available and operational,” Sustman said. “Developers are making changes quicker in a container environment and that’s very appealing to customers.”

Watch the complete video interview below, and be sure to check out more of SiliconANGLE’s and theCUBE’s CUBE Conversations. (* Disclosure: Veritas Technologies LLC sponsored this segment of theCUBE. Neither Veritas nor other sponsors have editorial control over content on theCUBE or SiliconANGLE.)

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