Portworx launches latest version of application and data protection platform

PX-Backup 2.1, the market-leading application and data protection platform for modern applications, has been released by Portworx by Pure Storage, the most comprehensive Kubernetes Data Services Platform. In addition, Portworx presented fresh survey results on end-user perceptions of operating stateful applications on Kubernetes.

“The latest survey findings underscore the urgency of securing mission-critical Kubernetes applications with comprehensive data protection and compliance strategy. With the latest PX-Backup enhancements, we’re excited to offer global customers a vendor-agnostic solution to truly manage and secure their modern yet distributed Kubernetes infrastructure.” — Murli Thirumale, VP and GM, Cloud-Native Business Unit, Pure Storage.

PX-latest Backup’s updates give organizations with comprehensive data protection, multi-cloud mobility, and increased compliance support for Kubernetes-based apps, whether they’re on-premises or in the cloud. The following are some of the new features:

• Application Portability between clouds: PX-Backup allows you to move your applications across cloud and on-premises data centers. Customers may now back up Kubernetes apps operating in one cloud or data center and restore them in another with the newest version.

• Improved Compliance via 3-2-1 Backup Rule Support for any storage: The 3-2-1 backup rule is a data protection industry standard that ensures recovery from a variety of failure circumstances. PX-Backup can now offload backups from CSI snapshots to object storage with this release. Enterprises who run Kubernetes apps on Portworx PX-Store, any CSI compliant storage provider, or cloud-based storage may now use PX-Backup to keep three copies of their data (production, snapshots, and backup copy) across disc and object storage. This gives you the freedom to store data offsite (in any cloud), which meets the requirements of a 3-2-1 backup strategy.

• Expanded Recovery with Support for File Shares: Enterprises may now backup and restore applications operating on read-write-many (RWX) persistent volumes supplied as file shares from FlashBlade, Portworx proxy volumes, or any NFS server, in addition to current capabilities to backup block-based workloads.

• Improved Protection using PX-Secure: PX-Backup users may now use Portworx PX-role-based Secure’s access controls and encryption services, adding an extra layer of security for their modern apps while also lowering management overhead.

End-User Survey: Perspectives on Running Stateful Applications on Kubernetes

As businesses attempt to update their apps and infrastructure, Kubernetes plays a crucial role in delivering business agility and resilience. Over half of 500 IT professionals polled said that enhancing agility (58 percent) and increasing resilience (52 percent) were the most important factors in their team’s choice to design and deploy stateful apps on Kubernetes. The following are some of the survey’s key findings:

• Impacts to a Company’s Bottom Line: IT pros believe that running stateful apps on Kubernetes allows them to build (54%) and scale (55%) their programs more quickly while also helping developers to be more productive (55 percent ).
• Backup & Restore is a Key Requirement: The most significant needs for stateful apps running on Kubernetes were recognized by IT Professionals as backup and restore (55 percent), data mobility, and capacity management (49 percent), and high availability (48 percent).
• Data Mobility and Protection are a Challenge: When deploying stateful apps on Kubernetes, IT professionals struggle the most with data mobility (29 percent), while data protection (46 percent) is the greatest operational difficulty.
• Stateful Workloads are Expected to Increase: The majority of respondents (87%) expect the percentage of stateful tasks to increase over the next 12 months, while 9% expect it to stay the same and only 4% expect it to decrease.