Pure Storage has 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 85% of global organisations will be running containerised applications in production, up from less than 35% in 2019. Amazon Elastic Kubernetes Service (Amazon EKS) is a managed service to run and scale Kubernetes on AWS without needing to install, operate and maintain a Kubernetes control plane or nodes.
As container adoption increases and more applications are being deployed in the enterprise, these organisations want more options to manage stateful and persistent data associated with these modern applications.
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.
As part of its work with AWS, Portworx has also announced an Early Access Programme 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 investment 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 organisations face when bringing Kubernetes applications to enterprise scale,” says 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 organisations adopt containers and Kubernetes to build and modernise applications, solutions that accelerate their journey to the cloud create significant value,” comments 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 30% of the temporary medical employees in the United States. We started by migrating most of our technology infrastructure on AWS and adopting Kubernetes to develop, test, and deploy new applications, but we needed a storage layer that was as flexible as the other elements of our cloud-native stack,” says Reed Glauser, Director of Engineering, CHG Healthcare. “Portworx added the capabilities to Amazon EKS we needed, enabling us to optimize and automate our storage management, spin up new clusters and migrate seamlessly, and significantly accelerate and streamline our cloud development life cycle.”
