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Hedvig and ClusterHQ Accelerate Adoption of Docker by Delivering Efficiency and Scale for Microservices in Enterprise Environments
August 2015 by Marc Jacob
Hedvig, the company with distributed systems DNA that is reinventing software-defined storage, today announced it has joined the ClusterHQ storage partner ecosystem to offer modern enterprises an integrated solution that simplifies storage provisioning and data persistence for Docker volumes. Hedvig and ClusterHQ, The Container Data People, collaborated on the development of the Hedvig storage driver for Flocker, a software plugin that integrates Hedvig’s software-defined storage solution and ClusterHQ’s Flocker container data management software. The Hedvig storage driver for Flocker is currently available on GitHub.
As containers quickly make their way into the enterprise and production environments, there is an exponentially greater need for dynamic, well-managed, persistent storage. While developers can spin up containerized applications in a few seconds, provisioning storage for these environments can take hours, days or even weeks.
Together, Hedvig and ClusterHQ simplify the provisioning of storage and ensure data persistence — two key requirements for production enterprise deployments of containerized applications. With the Hedvig storage driver for Flocker, stateful data volumes now follow containers as they move between hosts in the environment, and data can be preserved beyond the life of the containers themselves.
ClusterHQ’s unique solution allows enterprises to take advantage of the agility benefits of containers for their databases and other stateful services, while Hedvig’s software-defined approach to storage provides flexibility, dynamic provisioning and the cost economics of commodity server infrastructure. The Hedvig storage driver for Flocker further exploits Hedvig’s industry-first ability to deliver a full suite of software-based advanced data services — including deduplication, compression, and tunable replication — on a per-volume basis. Ultimately, the Hedvig-Flocker integration allows DevOps and IT teams to bring applications and services in production and to market more quickly and at reduced cost.
