As we progress further into the next phases of the wireless evolution, we find that enterprises and consumers have an insatiable appetite for speed and new services. They are adopting the current 5th Generation (5G) mobile network as quickly as it becomes available. However, they require use cases with unprecedented mobility, security, low-latency and tighter integration between wireless and mission critical applications.

As the industry moves into the next phases of the 5G rollout, operators face the need to deliver a greater number of new services, with increased speed, lower latency and strict Quality of Service (QoS), at higher speeds and over more endpoints than ever before. This is the lynchpin for delivering higher quality, more profitable services. Among the many advantages, 5G's inherent virtualization and cloud-native frameworks set the stage for not only hardware-software disaggregation, but also the disaggregation of vendors, promoting best-of-breed Open RAN (O-RAN).

As the industry moves to the next phases of the 5G rollout, operators face the need to deliver a greater number of new services, with increased speed, lower latency and strict Quality of Service (QoS), over more endpoints than ever before. Many begin by deploying 5G radio services connected to a 4G Evolved Packet Core (EPC), known as non-standalone (NSA). While NSA can enable higher speed of services, the EPC is not capable of enabling 5G core's (5GC) rich feature set, including QoS-enabled network slices.

Enterprises need high-performance storage for their stateful applications. Their needs vary from running Relational and NoSQL Databases to Big Data to AI/ML workloads. They want near bare metal like performance along with scale. In this white paper, we compare Robin Platform with open source GlusterFS and our analysis show that Robin platform provides near bare-metal performance and could scale well to meet the needs of Big Data and AI/ML applications.

As more and more enterprises move to Kubernetes for their cloud-native needs, they are looking for high-performance storage options for their stateful and data-intensive workloads. Beyond a seamless workflow to provision storage, they are also looking for complete data lifecycle management features as a part of their storage platform. Robin Storage is a perfect candidate for this need. With their application awareness, high performance and scale, Robin Storage is well suited to meet enterprise cloud-native storage needs.