Pure Storage expands full suite of offerings with Portworx Enterprise

Pure Storage has announced a new fully managed service for Portworx Enterprise. It aims to bring a Kubernetes-ready data plan to every developer that works on containerised 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 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 containerised apps into production in seconds, versus weeks or months. The fully managed service will offer a no install, easy to use, easy to manage experience and users won’t need container expertise to access it, making Day 0 and Day 2 operations for Kubernetes clusters simple with a few clicks.

Here’s what it offers:
PX-Fast: It provides 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 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 containerised 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.
Near-Sync DR: It 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
Object Storage Service: It provides another storage interface (in addition to file and block storage) to run containerised 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.
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 organisation looking for an enterprise-grade data protection service to protect their Kubernetes workloads with a few clicks.