The growth of software-defined, cloud native persistent storage is fueled by the many modern organizations that use containers for lightweight and portable app deployment — often needing a compatible storage strategy. By adopting container systems such as Kubernetes, users benefit from a range of capabilities from application scaling, failover, deployment and automation to service discovery, load balancing and self-healing. These became critical in an era where technology agility and efficiency are now top priorities for IT teams everywhere. When deploying cloud native storage, organizations should be making decisions based on important factors that have the potential to make or break both the deployment process itself and the storage solution’s usefulness.