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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