Competition or Coopetition in the Persistent Storage Market?
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Rancher Labs’ recent launch of Longhorn was in response to DevOps’ distress call for a cloud-native persistent storage solution for Kubernetes. At the time, industry pundit Chris Mellor posted that the company had entered into direct competition with its partners Portworx and Storage OS. A healthy dose of coopetition may be more like it. From the perspective of Rancher Labs CEO Sheng Liang and Portworx CEO, Murli Thirumale, the secret to the evolution of the storage market, in this container-centric landscape, is collaboration, rather than all-out competition.
https://rancher.com/blog/2020/competition-coopetition-persistent-storage-market/
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