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Portworx, a professional solution provider for container storage and data management, has updated its industry-leading container native storage solution, Portworx Enterprise, to enable its enterprise users to extend, back up and restore critical applications on Kubernetes. Both PX-Backup and PX-Autopilot are used for storage capacity management. Portworx enters the enterprise backup market through PX-Backup, which enables enterprise users to manage all their Kubernetes application backups in a cloud native way conveniently and securely. PX-Backup is unique in the container world in that it supports backup of a single Pod, multiple Pod, and an entire Kubernetes NameSpace using a single command, even if the enterprise is using Microsoft Azure, AWS, or Google Storage.

In addition, PX-Autopilot for storage capacity management enables enterprises to intelligently manage storage and expand capacity only when needed, thereby reducing cloud storage costs by 50 per cent and eliminating the long-standing problem that cloud storage is charged when configured rather than when it is used.

After enterprises realize the great role of cloud native technology in their digital transformation, container technology is more widely used. Gartner forecasts that more than 20 per cent of enterprise storage capacity will be used to support container workloads by 2022, a figure that has not yet reached 1 per cent. In this way, enterprises need a container native storage platform to solve all kinds of problems in running container applications on Kubernetes. This update establishes Portworx's industry leading position as the only comprehensive provider of container native storage and data management capabilities: fast and scalable container storage, automated capacity management, backup and recovery, disaster recovery, multi-cloud migration, and data security services for container applications running on Kubernetes.

"the digital transformation of enterprises is constantly driven by technologies such as containers and Kubernetes. These technologies can help teams quickly provide better service to users and customers, "said Gou Rao, Portworx CTO." with these new features, we are constantly working to achieve full-stack support, enabling users to run applications with large amounts of data on Kubernetes, helping companies achieve their transformation goals while saving costs and meeting compliance requirements. "

PX-Backup

Earlier this year, Portworx released PX-DR, the industry's first disaster recovery service for Kubernetes applications. Although not every application requires disaster recovery (DR), research based on market research firm 451Research shows that even for non-critical applications and data, 53% of companies have set RPO targets for data recovery within 24 hours, so data backup is critical for all enterprise applications. To solve this problem, Portworx released PX-Backup, a point-and-click backup and recovery service for Kubernetes applications. With the expansion of PX-Backup, enterprise users of Portworx Enterprise have been able to manage, guarantee and back up all applications running on Kubernetes that contain a large amount of data.

PX-Backup can capture application data, configuration, and Kubernetes objects as a unit, enabling users to store critical data in any S3-compatible object memory. After the backup is complete, the Kubernetes application can be restored and redeployed by rerunning the Kubernetes deployment file. In addition, PX-Backup can also capture a large amount of data in the backup, so that enterprises can answer the backup person in charge, backup content, backup time, backup location, backup time and other important issues of regulation and management.

Other features include:

For the first time, companies that are using cloud storage can use PX-Backup, a backup service built for Kubernetes applications, even though they have not yet used Portworx Enterprise. For example, enterprises are using things like Microsoft Azure Managed Disks, Amazon Web Services EBS, and Google Persistent Disks.

Portworx backup service can even back up multi-node distributed databases such as Cassandra, Kafka, Elasticsearch and MongoDB, while other backup services need to face the risk of data corruption in order to achieve this goal.

Backed up data can be sent to any S3-compatible object storage, allowing backups to be stored and restored in a separate cloud or data center, as well as across clouds and data centers.

Implementing Storage capacity Management with PX-Autopilot

Kubernetes can automate application deployment, but enterprises must also be able to automate their underlying infrastructure to ensure sufficient computing power and storage to scale applications. Although companies have acquired a pay-as-you-go model in the cloud, in fact, companies are dealing with the difficulty of measuring the storage capacity of data services running on Kubernetes by overdeploying storage space (usually more than 2-3 times). This means they have to pay for unused storage. PX-Autopilot enables enterprises to save space and reduce storage costs by automatically detecting storage capacity and expanding it when needed. PX-Autopilot can expand the capacity of a single container or the capacity of the entire storage cluster according to user-defined rules. If PX-Autopilot is not used, it will take nearly 20 hours for the platform administrator to expand the storage space in the enterprise environment commonly used by customers.

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