Pure Storage expands Portworx portfolio

Pure Storage®, the IT firm that provides the world’s most advanced data storage technology and services, has announced a number of Portworx portfolio updates, including:

•   General availability of Portworx Data Services, the industry’s first Kubernetes Database-as-a-Service (DBaaS) Platform

•    The next generation of the iconic Portworx Enterprise, the complete multi-cloud ready Kubernetes data management platform for running mission-critical applications in production

•     General availability of Portworx Backup-as-a-Service, which supports backup and restore of any Kubernetes services including Amazon EKS, Red Hat OpenShift, Google Kubernetes Engine, VMware Tanzu, and Microsoft Azure Kubernetes Service

“Our focus is to unify and simplify the world of platform and DevOps teams, who are tackling some of the biggest challenges when bringing Kubernetes applications in production to enterprise scale. With today’s announcements we are providing our customers with a comprehensive Kubernetes suite of solutions that help them accelerate data services, run Kubernetes apps in production, and protect apps and data anywhere with a few clicks.” — Murli Thirumale, VP and General Manager, Cloud Native Business Unit, Pure Storage.

Portworx Data Services

Because of the complexity that results from the use of various types of data services and databases, DevOps teams spend a significant amount of time firefighting deployments and operations rather than delivering the new features that customers want. Portworx Data Services is a Kubernetes Database-as-a-Service platform that allows organizations to use a single click to accelerate deployment, Day 2 operations, and protection for any data service, without any lock-in or the need to hire specialists.

Now generally available, developers can take advantage of:

• Support for Critical Databases: One-click deployment of the popular data services, including Cassandra, Kafka, PostgreSQL, RabbitMQ, Redis and Zookeeper are supported immediately on One Platform; with more services coming soon. Platform teams can use One API to operate all of these databases and Manage One Solution for enterprise grade support
• Consumption-Based Pricing: Organizations only pay for the data services they consume. Portworx Data Services can be purchased through a pay-as-you-go model, or through pre-purchased hours

Portworx Enterprise

Enterprises and service providers are deploying Kubernetes for all containerized applications, whether on-premises, in the cloud, or at the edge. These customers want to expand to new workloads while improving performance and efficiencies in Kubernetes production environments. The next generation of Portworx Enterprise enables new use cases that will assist customers in bringing diverse workloads into Kubernetes production environments, increasing developer agility, optimizing application performance, and reducing failover time to seconds.

The five new use cases and capabilities for Portworx Enterprise are: 

• Multi-tenant platform-as-a-service with application I/O control: This enables customers to maximize the use of infrastructure, control IOPS and bandwidth resources per app/tenant, and scale platform as-a-service environments efficiently
• 5G/edge with IPv6: Enables deployment of Kubernetes applications in a 5G/edge environment, end-to-end IPv6 support and access to edge storage
• Lift and shift of legacy applications with Kubernetes virtualization: Providesend-to-end support for KubeVirt and Openshift virtualization in Kubernetes managed platforms
• Unified storage overlay with Object Store Service: Customers are able to get a unified storage overlay solution with file, block, and object store services
• Hot data tier backed by high performance storage with PX-Fast: Customers can take advantage of high IOPS and low latency of any high performance storage backend infrastructure, including NVMe, without compromising the advantages of Portworx Enterprise.

Portworx Backup-as-a-Service

According to the Global Data Protection Index 2021 report, 82% of organizations are concerned that their current data protection solution will not meet future business challenges, and 67% are struggling to find the right data protection solution for their cloud-native apps. Customers also want integrated backup and disaster recovery solutions as a service. PX-Backup-as-a-Service takes all of PX-feature Backup’s richness and makes it available to customers as a service, simplifying Day 0 and Day 2 operations for Kubernetes data protection.

PX-Backup-as-a-Service, which is now generally available, includes auto discovery of Amazon EKS clusters, allowing customers to begin protecting their cloud native apps with a few simple clicks, Role-Based Access Control (RBAC), and multi-tenancy.

Portworx Enterprise’s next generation will be available globally in the second half of 2022.