Portworx by Pure Storage Extends Platform Capabilities to Accelerate Next-Gen Kubernetes Workloads

Salt Lake City - November 12, 2024 - Pure Storage® (NYSE: PSTG), Today at KubeCon North America 2024, Pure Storage® (NYSE: PSTG), the IT pioneer that delivers the world's most advanced data storage technology and services, announced significant enhancements to its Portworx® platform, designed to accelerate and scale next-gen Kubernetes workloads for VMs, databases, and AI/ML workloads. The expansion supports growing demands for unified solutions capable of handling modern, data-heavy applications across heterogeneous Kubernetes environments.

Industry Significance:

As enterprises increasingly embrace Kubernetes to manage data-intensive applications like AI - 97% now leveraging this technology - The unique operational demands of these workloads create considerable complexity. Platform engineering teams, developers, data scientists, and infrastructure teams alike grapple with fragmented tools tailored to different workloads, hindering their ability to operate cohesively. This fragmentation not only complicates workflows but also leads to challenges in resource optimization and scaling.

Portworx by Pure Storage provides a unified approach that streamlines operations and simplifies management across these diverse environments to empower teams to focus on innovation and efficiency, driving better outcomes for the organization.

News Highlights:

Portworx is extending its platform with a range of new and enhanced capabilities to further solidify its leadership in container data management. Key updates include:

• As-a-Service Capabilities for AI/ML workloads: To address the complexity of managing AI-driven applications and accelerating GenAI app development, Portworx is introducing as-a-service delivery for databases and curated foundation AI/ML models. This includes support for vector databases like Milvus, PostgreSQL, and Elasticsearch, as well as graph databases like Neo4j, simplifying the deployment and management of AI/ML workloads.

• Unified data management for VMs and containers on Kubernetes: As costs rise for traditional VM-based infrastructure, Portworx is supporting enterprises in modernizing their infrastructure and applications through an assessment-based approach. This strategy enables these organizations to streamline operations, reduce expenses, and accelerate application modernization on a single platform.

• Enterprise Enhancements Across Portworx Platform: Managing security and resource optimization in multi-tenant environments can create barriers to scale. Portworx addresses these issues with advanced security features, role-based access control (RBAC), and granular controls to improve resource utilization and ROI. Additionally, data resiliency for SQL Server is enhanced with support for Availability Groups, while automated database deployments are streamlined through a Terraform provider, integrating seamlessly into existing GitOps and infrastructure-as-code workflows.
  

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