Pure Storage®, the IT pioneer that delivers the world’s most advanced data storage technology and services, announced a series of updates to its Portworx portfolio which include:
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General availability of Portworx Data Services, the industry’s first Kubernetes Database-as-a-Service (DBaaS) Platform
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The next generation of the iconic Portworx Enterprise, the complete multi-cloud ready Kubernetes data management platform for running mission-critical applications in production
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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 comes with using several types of data services and databases, DevOps teams spend a lot of time firefighting installations and operations rather than delivering the new capabilities that consumers desire. Portworx Data Services is a Kubernetes Database-as-a-Service platform that enables organisations to deploy, operate, and protect any data service with a single click, without requiring any lock-in or the hiring of specialists.
Now generally available, developers can take advantage of:
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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
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Consumption-Based Pricing: Organisations 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
Kubernetes is becoming the norm for all containerised applications, whether on-premises, in the cloud, or at the edge, for enterprises and service providers. These clients also want to expand to new workloads and improve their Kubernetes production systems' performance and efficiencies. The next edition of Portworx Enterprise opens new use cases that will assist companies in bringing diverse workloads into Kubernetes production settings, increasing developer agility, improving application performance, and reducing failover time to seconds.
The five new use cases and capabilities for Portworx Enterprise are:
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Multi-tenant platform-as-a-service with application I/O control: This enables customers to maximise the use of infrastructure, control IOPS and bandwidth resources per app/tenant, and scale platform as-a-service environments efficiently
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5G/edge with IPv6: Enables deployment of Kubernetes applications in a 5G/edge environment, end-to-end IPv6 support and access to edge storage
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Lift and shift of legacy applications with Kubernetes virtualisation: Provides end-to-end support for KubeVirt and Openshift virtualisation in Kubernetes managed platforms
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Unified storage overlay with Object Store Service: Customers are able to get a unified storage overlay solution with file, block, and object store services
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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 research, 82% of companies are afraid that their existing data protection solution will not meet future business requirements, and 67% of companies are having trouble finding the suitable data protection solution for their cloud-native apps. Customers also seek as-a-Service comprehensive backup and disaster recovery solutions. PX-Backup-as-a-Service incorporates all of PX-features Backup's and makes them available to customers as a service, making Kubernetes data protection Day 0 and Day 2 operations simple.
Backup-as-a-Service on AWS now incorporates auto-discovery of AWS EKS clusters, Role-Based Access Control (RBAC), and multi-tenancy. Customers can start protecting their cloud-native apps with a few simple clicks.
