Tintri by DDN, a storage and management vendor specializing in virtual machines, is looking beyond VMs to offer native support for Kubernetes with the same level of observability, adding to what customers can store on their systems.

The VMstore container storage interface (CSI) driver, due out this year, expands the storage array's features to Kubernetes environments, bringing VMstore's observability, performance and data protection to containers as well as virtual machines.

The new CSI driver is a small addition to VMstore, given its broader support for iSCSI, Windows SQL Server and others, but it reflects what's happening in IT, according to Russ Fellows, an analyst at The Futurum Group.

"Tintri understands the world has moved beyond just VMs; it's also a Kubernetes world," he said.