White Paper
Architecting High-Performance Kubernetes Storage With Puls8
This technical white paper examines high-performance storage architectures for Kubernetes environments, focusing on DataCore Puls8 and its SPDK-based design compared with traditional kernel-based storage platforms such as Portworx. As organizations run more stateful applications, databases, AI workloads, and analytics on Kubernetes, storage performance, resilience, and scalability become critical. The paper discusses the challenges of providing persistent storage in containerized environments, where applications must maintain data integrity despite pod restarts, node failures, and workload migrations. Puls8 leverages the Storage Performance Development Kit (SPDK) to bypass traditional kernel layers, reducing latency, increasing throughput, and improving I/O performance. This architecture d
