Pure Storage Expands as-a-Service Model Across Full Suite of Portworx Offerings and Introduces the Next Generation of Portworx Enterprise

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Pure Storage announced at KubeCon North America 2022 the launch of a fully managed service for Portworx Enterprise, enhancing operations for Kubernetes applications. The new service enables DevOps teams to deploy Kubernetes apps in seconds with improved scalability and reliability. Key features include the PX-Fast capability for low latency workloads, Near-Sync DR for minimal downtime, and an Object Storage Service for seamless integration with Kubernetes. Additionally, a free tier of Portworx Backup is offered to protect up to 1TB of data.

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• Launch of a fully managed service for Portworx Enterprise supports rapid Kubernetes app deployment.
• PX-Fast capability significantly boosts performance with over one million IOPS.
• Near-Sync DR minimizes downtime with a guaranteed 24-second RPO.
• Introduction of a free tier of Portworx Backup allows protection of up to 1TB of data.

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• None.

Platform Engineers Can Run Kubernetes in Production at Scale with Next-Gen Performance and Reliability within Seconds

DETROIT, Oct. 26, 2022 /PRNewswire/ -- Today at KubeCon North America 2022, Pure Storage^® (NYSE: PSTG), the IT pioneer that delivers the world's most advanced data storage technology and services, announced a new fully managed service for Portworx^® Enterprise to bring a Kubernetes-ready data plane to every developer that works on containerized applications. With Portworx Enterprise 3.0, the underlying platform for this new fully managed service, DevOps teams can run mission-critical Kubernetes apps in production with elastic scalability and unmatched data availability. Now the full suite of Portworx offerings can be consumed as a fully managed service by users of Amazon EKS, RedHat OpenShift, and any other Kubernetes services (fully managed or upstream distributions). 

"The mission of Portworx has always been to help platform engineering teams offer to their developers an enterprise-grade Kubernetes-ready data platform with speed, simplicity, and scale. By delivering the fully managed service for the Portworx platform, the #1 Kubernetes data platform, we are bringing the cloud experience, on any storage infrastructure, to the fingertips of any developer who wants to work with Kubernetes apps in production." – Murli Thirumale, VP & GM, Cloud Native Business Unit, Pure Storage.

The fully managed service provides ease of use and faster deployment of Kubernetes data on any cloud or on-premises storage, enabling DevOps and platform teams to operate and scale containerized apps into production in seconds, versus weeks or months. The fully managed service will offer a no install, easy to use, and easy to manage experience to users with no container expertise required, making Day 0 and Day 2 operations for Kubernetes clusters simple with a few clicks.

With the 3.0 release of Portworx Enterprise, Portworx continues to push the boundaries of performance and reliability for containerized workloads in a unified data platform for file, block, and object storage.

• The new PX-Fast capability provides best-in-industry performance for low latency data services such as Kafka, Elastic, and MongoDB with fast ingestion needs, and high throughput for online transaction processing (OLTP), online analytical processing (OLAP), and machine learning (ML) workloads. The Kubernetes Data Management platform of Portworx uniquely provides throughput/IOPS extremely close to the equivalent of writing directly to the high-performing NVMe-based infrastructure, boosting the underlying performance to over one million IOPS. PX-Fast makes Kubernetes data storage look like local storage for containerized apps and data. Customers are able to harness the power of petabytes of data generated from apps such as video on-demand, VoIP, etc. with a close-to-zero failure rate.
• The Near-Sync DR capability extends the existing Portworx Disaster Recovery capability by providing the lowest possible RPO between two cloud regions or geographically distant data centers, giving enterprises the desired level of business continuity. The Portworx platform has always supported disaster recovery capabilities with zero RPO and fast RTO between two metro region clusters with <10ms latency. This in itself is unachieved by anyone else in the industry. And with Near-Sync DR, the platform will extend its end-to-end DR solution with a guaranteed 24 second RPO and a fast RTO between two regions with higher network latencies. Customers will be able to run their tier 1 mission-critical apps with the utmost trust and confidence, leveraging the platform's top-notch resiliency and reliability.
• The Object Storage Service capability provides another storage interface (in addition to file and block storage) to run containerized workloads. Using this feature, users can manage and access object storage buckets with native Kubernetes integration to get a single consistent experience across cloud and on-prem S3 stores.

"Red Hat OpenShift is the industry's leading enterprise Kubernetes platform, providing a consistent foundation for developers to build, deploy, manage, and scale containerized applications faster across hybrid and multi cloud environments all the way to the Edge. Portworx data management and data protection offerings help unlock key use cases for Red Hat OpenShift workloads in production. This latest managed cloud service offering from Portworx by Pure Storage addresses increased customer interest in building a single platform to offer storage, migration and data management-as-a-service to developers on top of Red Hat OpenShift, and demonstrates the power of an Ecosystem of partners working together to better support our joint Customer's needs." – Chris Gray, Vice President, North America Partner Ecosystem, Red Hat

In addition, Portworx is introducing a free forever tier of Portworx Backup, the leading Kubernetes backup and data protection service. Platform teams can now get started with the fully managed service of Portworx Backup with no feature restrictions, and protect up to 1TB of data at no cost. Each backup instance can manage hundreds of Kubernetes clusters. The free, fully managed Portworx Backup can be used indefinitely by any organization looking for an enterprise-grade data protection service to protect their Kubernetes workloads with a few clicks.

Portworx Enterprise 3.0 release and the fully managed service will be available in early 2023. To learn more, visit:

• Announcing Fully Managed Service for Portworx Enterprise, the #1 Kubernetes Data Platform
• Announcing Next-Gen Performance, Scale, and Business Resiliency with Portworx
• Portworx Backup, the K8s Data Protection Platform, now Available Free Forever with No Feature Restrictions
• Video: Explore the news with Joep Piscaer

About Pure Storage

Pure Storage (NYSE: PSTG) uncomplicates data storage, forever. Pure delivers a cloud experience that empowers every organization to get the most from their data while reducing the complexity and expense of managing the infrastructure behind it. Pure's commitment to providing true storage as-a-service gives customers the agility to meet changing data needs at speed and scale, whether they are deploying traditional workloads, modern applications, containers, or more. Pure believes it can make a significant impact in reducing data center emissions worldwide through its environmental sustainability efforts, including designing products and solutions that enable customers to reduce their carbon and energy footprint. 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 2022 Gartner Magic Quadrant for Primary Storage
Leader in the 2021 Gartner Magic Quadrant for Distributed File Systems & Object Storage
Leader in the 2022 GigaOm Radar for Cloud-Native Kubernetes Data Storage 
Leader in the 2022 GigaOm Radar for Enterprise Kubernetes Data Storage

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FAQ

What is the new service announced by Pure Storage related to Portworx?

Pure Storage announced a fully managed service for Portworx Enterprise, designed to enhance Kubernetes app deployment.

How does the PX-Fast capability impact Kubernetes workloads?

The PX-Fast capability provides best-in-industry performance for low latency data services, exceeding one million IOPS.

What is the Near-Sync DR feature in Portworx Enterprise 3.0?

The Near-Sync DR feature offers a 24-second Recovery Point Objective (RPO) for disaster recovery, minimizing downtime across cloud regions.

What is the free tier of Portworx Backup?

The free tier of Portworx Backup allows organizations to protect up to 1TB of data indefinitely, with no feature restrictions.

When will the Portworx Enterprise 3.0 release be available?

The Portworx Enterprise 3.0 release and fully managed service will be available in early 2023.