Pure Storage®, the IT brand that provides the world’s most advanced data storage technology and services, has announced a new fully managed service for Portworx® Enterprise that will provide every developer working on containerized applications with a Kubernetes-ready data plane. DevOps teams can run mission-critical Kubernetes apps in production with elastic scalability and unparalleled data availability using Portworx Enterprise 3.0, the underlying platform for this new fully managed service. Users of Amazon EKS, RedHat OpenShift, and any other Kubernetes service can now consume the full suite of Portworx offerings as a fully managed service (fully managed or upstream distributions).
“The mission of Portworx has always been to help platform engineering teams offer to their developers an enterprise-grade Kubernetes-ready data platform with speed, simplicity, and scale. By delivering the fully managed service for the Portworx platform, the #1 Kubernetes data platform, we are bringing the cloud experience, on any storage infrastructure, to the fingertips of any developer who wants to work with Kubernetes apps in production.” – Murli Thirumale, VP & GM, Cloud Native Business Unit, Pure Storage.
The fully managed service enables DevOps and platform teams to operate and scale containerized apps into production in seconds, rather than weeks or months, by providing ease of use and faster deployment of Kubernetes data on any cloud or on-premises storage. The fully managed service will provide users with no container expertise with a no-install, easy-to-use, and easy-to-manage experience, making Day 0 and Day 2 operations for Kubernetes clusters simple with a few clicks.
With the 3.0 release of Portworx Enterprise, Portworx continues to push the boundaries of performance and reliability for containerized workloads in a unified data platform for file, block, and object storage.
“Red Hat OpenShift is the industry’s leading enterprise Kubernetes platform, providing a consistent foundation for developers to build, deploy, manage, and scale containerized applications faster across hybrid and multi cloud environments all the way to the Edge. Portworx data management and data protection offerings help unlock key use cases for Red Hat OpenShift workloads in production. This latest managed cloud service offering from Portworx by Pure Storage addresses increased customer interest in building a single platform to offer storage, migration and data management-as-a-service to developers on top of Red Hat OpenShift, and demonstrates the power of an Ecosystem of partners working together to better support our joint Customer’s needs.” – Chris Gray, Vice President, North America Partner Ecosystem, Red Hat
In addition, Portworx Backup, the Kubernetes backup and data protection service, is now offering a free forever tier. Platform teams can now get started with Portworx Backup’s fully managed service with no feature restrictions and protect up to 1TB of data for free. Each backup instance has the ability to manage hundreds of Kubernetes clusters. Any organization looking for an enterprise-grade data protection service to protect their Kubernetes workloads with a few clicks can use the free, fully managed Portworx Backup indefinitely.
Portworx Enterprise 3.0 release and the fully managed service will be available in early 2023.