By Business Wire
Publication Date: 2026-09-29 13:00:00
TELTOW, Germany, September 29, 2026–(BUSINESS WIRE)–Simplyblock, the ultra-fast software-defined storage platform for Red Hat® OpenShift® and Kubernetes, today announced that its software-defined storage platform for OpenShift Virtualization and OpenShift Container Platform now ships with a comprehensive set of built-in business continuity and storage-level disaster recovery capabilities. Rather than requiring customers to purchase and deploy a separately licensed DR product, simplyblock provides synchronous and asynchronous replication, failover/failback recovery, and off-site protection as integral capabilities of its storage platform.
VMware customers have traditionally relied on vSAN, vMotion, Storage vMotion, and Site Recovery Manager for replication, failover, recovery and workload mobility. As enterprises transition VM workloads to Kubernetes-based virtualization, these integrated storage-level business continuity and DR capabilities have not been a standard part of the underlying storage platform, until now.
Storage-level DR for OpenShift has typically required premium storage add-ons licensed separately on every worker node at both the primary and the recovery site, often making it the single most expensive component of the platform stack. Simplyblock’s approach eliminates the need to treat storage, business continuity and disaster recovery as separate infrastructure decisions. Simplyblock provides workload availability across…
