NetApp and Red Hat Expand OpenShift Data Protection for VM and Kubernetes Workloads

NetApp and Red Hat have introduced new offerings that bring NetApp backup and disaster recovery services to Red Hat OpenShift and OpenShift Virtualization.Today, the companies announced that the expanded offerings are designed to give Red Hat customers stronger protection for large-scale virtual machine environments, as well as on-premises and cloud infrastructure. The companies said the new capabilities are built to work closely with Red Hat OpenShift, helping customers run Kubernetes and VM workloads with greater reliability and stronger recovery options.NetApp Backup and Recovery for Red Hat OpenShift and OpenShift Virtualization provides data protection services for OpenShift applications on NetApp ONTAP storage, according to NetApp. The service provides Change Block Tracking (CBT), storage efficiency preservation, and compute offload capabilities that reduce compute overhead during backup operations. In addition, NetApp Backup and Recovery now protects VMs on OpenShift using comprehensive automation that delivers VM-granular protection and recovery workflows.The update also extends NetApp’s OpenShift data protection story from backup into orchestrated disaster recovery for Kubernetes-based VMs. The disaster recovery-as-a-service is now available in preview and allows customers to use NetApp Disaster Recovery for their Red Hat OpenShift and Red Hat OpenShift Virtualization environments, according to NetApp.Additionally, the new NetApp Trident Parallelism…