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Reimagining storage for a cloud-native world

Reimagining storage for a cloud-native world

If developers had to manually specify the location, configuration, and requirements of every compute resource a container might need, no one would bother with microservices. It would just be too complicated. But, while Kubernetes does a great job stripping away that complexity for compute, that’s still basically the process developers deal with for storage.

This isn’t a huge issue when you’re working with a few hundred containers. But scale up to hundreds of thousands or millions, which is where the world is headed? And make that storage dynamic, with data moving across multiple clouds and data centers, on premises and around the globe? It just doesn’t work.

Developers can use Kubernetes to schedule a million containers running in the wild in two clicks. But start wrestling with on-premises and cloud storage, and it takes weeks or even months. If microservices are going to scale, developers need a way to connect containerized applications to all the different places data might live, transparently, so they don’t have to think about it. If truly mission-critical applications are going to run on Kubernetes, developers also need to be able to solve storage- and data-related business requirements like data security, disaster recovery, multi-cloud operations and SLA management. Enter Portworx.

Portworx provides an intelligent overlay for orchestrating container storage in a dynamic multi-cloud world. Expose the software to all your storage—block storage, on-premises infrastructure, cloud storage across AWS, Azure, Google, and IBM—and Portworx handles the rest.



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