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NetApp on Wednesday in the US officially rolled out NetApp Astra, the company’s fully-managed, application-aware data management service targeting Kubernetes workloads in cloud-native and on-premises environments. NetApp Astra, which was first introduced last year as Project Astra, is solving what has been the critical gap in Kubernetes, which is the need to unify application and data management, said Eric Han, vice president of product management for public cloud services at the storage vend...

NetApp Astra: NetApp Unveils Unified Kubernetes Application Data Management ‘We’ve turned [Kubernetes management] into a SaaS experience. We manage the data for you on your behalf, giving you the power to pick your own application and your own cloud. We basically become your SRE, your site reliability engineer, your data expert, if you will. The people that make sure your cloud services are up and running,’ says Eric Han, NetApp’s vice president of product management for public cloud se...