New Release of Portworx PX-Backup Enables Cross-Cloud Data Protection and Migration of Stateful Applications Running on Kubernetes

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On October 12, 2021, at KubeCon North America, Pure Storage (NYSE: PSTG) announced the launch of PX-Backup 2.1, enhancing its Kubernetes Data Services Platform. The update offers comprehensive data protection and multi-cloud mobility. Key features include application portability across clouds, 3-2-1 backup rule support, expanded recovery options for file shares, and improved security via PX-Secure. A survey of IT professionals revealed that 58% prioritize agility and 52% resilience in deploying stateful apps on Kubernetes, with 87% anticipating increased workloads in the next year.

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• Launch of PX-Backup 2.1 with enhanced data protection features.
• Application portability across multiple clouds enhances flexibility for businesses.
• Support for 3-2-1 backup rule improves compliance and disaster recovery.
• Expanded recovery options for file shares increase operational efficiency.

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MOUNTAIN VIEW, Calif., Oct. 12, 2021 /PRNewswire/ -- Today at KubeCon North America, Portworx^® by Pure Storage^® (NYSE: PSTG), the most complete Kubernetes Data Services Platform, announced the release of PX-Backup 2.1, its market-leading application and data protection platform for modern applications. Portworx also released new survey data assessing end user perspectives on running stateful applications on Kubernetes.

The latest enhancements to PX-Backup provide enterprises with comprehensive data protection, multi-cloud mobility, and improved compliance support for applications running on Kubernetes, regardless of whether they are running on premises or in the cloud. New enhancements include:

• Application Portability between clouds: PX-Backup delivers application portability between any cloud or on-premises data center. With the latest version, customers can back up Kubernetes applications running in one cloud or data center and restore them in any other.
• Improved Compliance via 3-2-1 Backup Rule Support for any storage: The 3-2-1 backup rule is an industry standard for any data protection plan, ensuring recovery from several failure scenarios. With this release, PX-Backup can now offload backups from CSI snapshots to object storage. Enterprises running Kubernetes apps on Portworx PX-Store, any CSI compliant storage service, or cloud-based storage can now use PX-Backup to maintain three copies of data (production, snapshots, backup copy) across both disk and object storage. This provides flexibility to store data offsite (in any cloud), fulfilling the requirements of a 3-2-1 based backup program.
• Expanded Recovery with Support for File Shares: In addition to existing capabilities to backup block-based workloads, enterprises can now backup and recover applications running on read-write-many (RWX) persistent volumes provisioned as file shares from FlashBlade, Portworx proxy volumes, or any NFS server.
• Improved Protection using PX-Secure: PX-Backup users can now leverage both the role-based access controls and encryption services offered in Portworx PX-Secure, gaining an added layer of security support for their modern applications and the ability to reduce management overhead.

End User Survey: Perspectives on Running Stateful Applications on Kubernetes

Kubernetes continues to play a critical role in driving business agility and resilience as enterprises work to modernize their applications and infrastructure. An end user survey fielded among 500 IT professionals in the U.S. and U.K. found that over half of respondents cited increasing agility (58%) and increasing resilience (52%) as the biggest drivers behind their team's decision to build and deploy stateful applications on Kubernetes. Key survey findings include:

• Impacts to a Company's Bottom Line: IT Professionals agree that running stateful apps on Kubernetes allows them to develop (54%) and scale (55%) their apps faster, while allowing developers to be more efficient (55%).
• Backup & Restore is a Key Requirement: Backup & Restore (55%), Data Mobility and Capacity Management (49%), and High Availability (48%) were identified by IT Professionals as the most critical requirements for stateful apps running on Kubernetes.
• Data Mobility and Protection are a Challenge: Data Mobility (29%) is the requirement IT Professionals struggle to achieve the most when running stateful apps on Kubernetes, while Data Protection (46%) is the biggest operational challenge.
• Stateful Workloads are Expected to Increase: A majority (87%) of respondents expect the percentage of stateful workloads over the next 12 months to increase, while 9% expect it to stay the same, and only 4% expect it to decrease.

"The latest survey findings underscore the urgency of securing mission-critical Kubernetes applications with a 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-Backup 2.1 will be available in November 2021. To learn more about PX-Backup and download the full survey data, visit:

• Introducing PX-Backup 2.1
• Survey: Running Stateful Applications on Kubernetes
• Portworx at Kubecon North America

About Pure Storage
Pure Storage (NYSE: PSTG) gives technologists their time back. Pure delivers a modern data experience that empowers organizations to run their operations as a true, automated, storage as-a-service model seamlessly across multiple clouds. Pure helps customers put data to use while reducing the complexity and expense of managing the infrastructure behind it. And with a certified customer satisfaction score in the top one percent of B2B companies, Pure's ever-expanding list of customers are  among the happiest in the world. For more information, visit www.purestorage.com.

About Portworx by Pure Storage
Portworx, acquired by Pure Storage in October 2020, is the container storage company enterprises rely on to manage mission critical data services in containers. By enabling data availability, data security, backup and disaster recovery for Kubernetes-based applications running on-prem or across clouds, Portworx has helped dozens of Global 2000 companies such as Carrefour, Comcast, GE Digital, Lufthansa, T-Mobile, and SAIC run containerized data services in production. Portworx partners with Amazon, Google, IBM, VMware, and other leading enterprise software companies to accelerate container adoption. For more information, visit portworx.com or follow @portwx.

Analyst Recognition: 

• Leader in the 2020 Gartner Magic Quadrant for Primary Storage Arrays
• Leader in the 2021 Gartner Magic Quadrant for Distributed File Systems & Object Storage

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FAQ

What is PX-Backup 2.1 and when was it released?

PX-Backup 2.1 is a data protection platform for Kubernetes, released on October 12, 2021.

How does PX-Backup 2.1 enhance data protection for stateful applications?

It offers application portability, supports the 3-2-1 backup rule, and allows for recovery of file shares.

What did the survey reveal about IT professionals' views on Kubernetes?

The survey showed that 58% of IT professionals value agility while 52% prioritize resilience when deploying stateful applications.

What percentage of IT professionals expect stateful workloads to increase?

87% of IT professionals expect the percentage of stateful workloads to rise in the next 12 months.

Who is the VP of the Cloud Native Business Unit at Pure Storage?

Murli Thirumale is the VP and GM of the Cloud Native Business Unit at Pure Storage.