Portworx by Pure Storage Announces Strategic Engagement with AWS
Pure Storage (NYSE: PSTG) has announced a strategic engagement with Amazon Web Services (AWS) aimed at enhancing its Portworx solutions for running Kubernetes workloads. This collaboration, spanning three years, will focus on developing integrated solutions for enterprise data management, data protection, and backup services on AWS. With predictions that over 85% of organizations will utilize containerized applications by 2025, this partnership seeks to address the growing need for effective data storage solutions, including the launch of Portworx Backup as-a-Service.
- Strategic engagement with AWS to enhance Portworx solutions.
- Launch of Portworx Backup as-a-Service to accelerate data recovery objectives.
- Collaboration aims to address increasing enterprise demand for Kubernetes data management.
- None.
MOUNTAIN VIEW, Calif., Feb. 10, 2022 /PRNewswire/ -- Pure Storage® (NYSE: PSTG), an IT pioneer that delivers storage as-a-service, today announced a strategic engagement with Amazon Web Services (AWS) for solution development and enablement programs for Pure's Portworx solutions to help enterprises move Kubernetes workloads into production.
Gartner predicts that by 2025, more than
Portworx by Pure Storage can bring a fully integrated solution to customers for persistent storage, data protection, disaster recovery, data security, cross-region and hybrid data migrations, and automated capacity management for Kubernetes applications built by developers.
- Portworx Enterprise gets right to the heart of what developers and Kubernetes admins want: data to behave just like a cloud service. These users want to simply request storage based on their requirements (capacity, performance level, resiliency level, security level and access, protection level, and more), and let the data management layer figure out all the details.
- Portworx PX-Backup adds enterprise-grade point-and-click backup and recovery for all applications running on Kubernetes, even if they are stateless.
As part of its work with AWS, Portworx has also announced an Early Access Program for Portworx Backup as-a-Service (BaaS) on AWS. Portworx BaaS introduces a modern data protection control plane to accelerate implementation of data and application recovery objectives, delivering speed and simplicity to application owners for safeguarding Kubernetes applications. Portworx BaaS is one of the many as-a-Service offerings the company will deliver to its customers in the future.
This three year strategic engagement is the latest step in expanding the relationship between Pure Storage and AWS, and will deliver a comprehensive Kubernetes platform for mutual customers moving applications into production.
"Portworx and Amazon EKS deliver a truly better together solution that tackles some of the biggest challenges organizations face when bringing Kubernetes applications to enterprise scale," said Murli Thirumale, VP and General Manager, Cloud Native Business Unit, Pure Storage. "We are excited by the results we've seen from our many joint customers who are using our solutions together today, and look forward to being able to accelerate Kubernetes applications for many more as a result of our expanded relationship with AWS, including our new Portworx Backup as-a-Service offering on AWS."
"As more and more organizations adopt containers and Kubernetes to build and modernize applications, solutions that accelerate their journey to the cloud create significant value," said Deepak Singh, VP Compute Services, AWS. "We are excited to work with Portworx to provide customers another option for backup and data management on Amazon EKS."
"As demand for healthcare workers skyrocketed, we needed to rapidly deliver new digital tools that better serve our customers, who count on us to provide more than
To learn more, visit:
- Portworx Enterprise in AWS Marketplace
- PX-Backup in AWS Marketplace
- Early Access Program for Portworx Backup as-a-Service (BaaS) on AWS
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.
Analyst Recognition:
- Leader in the 2021 Gartner Magic Quadrant for Primary Storage Arrays
- Leader in the 2021 Gartner Magic Quadrant for Distributed File Systems & Object Storage
Connect with Pure
Blog
LinkedIn
Twitter
Facebook
Pure Storage, the Pure P Logo, Portworx, and the marks on the Pure Trademark List at www.purestorage.com/legal/productenduserinfo.html are trademarks of Pure Storage, Inc. Other names are trademarks of their respective owners.
1 Arun Chandrasekaran, Best Practices for Running Containers and Kubernetes in Production, Gartner, August 2020
View original content to download multimedia:https://www.prnewswire.com/news-releases/portworx-by-pure-storage-announces-strategic-engagement-with-aws-301479567.html
SOURCE Pure Storage
FAQ
What is the strategic engagement between PSTG and AWS?
When was the announcement of the engagement with AWS made by Pure Storage?
What new service is Pure Storage launching as part of its partnership with AWS?