Portworx launches enterprise-class storage for containers
The use of containers has done much to transform the deployment of applications. However, storage hasn't kept pace as it's difficult to scale up to cope with increased workloads.
Data storage specialist Portworx is launching new purpose-built, enterprise-class storage solution for containers. PX-Enterprise will enable IT to match the agility of application developers and deliver lower costs compared to legacy solutions.
By taking a fundamentally distributed approach, Portworx turns commodity X86 hardware into a converged storage node that can be scaled across a cluster of nodes and automatically provisioned with any Docker-ready scheduler.
PX-Enterprise ensures data persistence across nodes, and allows storage policies such as class of service, IOPS and availability to be set at a container level, plus it provides container-granular snapshots and replication. The solution also enables enterprises to provision storage for containerized apps quickly, run storage at bare-metal speed, provision and schedule storage to automatically respond to container bursts, and manage storage features on a per-container basis.
"Like containers themselves, Portworx container-defined storage is radically simple, and the cost-savings are undeniable," says Murli Thirumale, CEO and co-founder of Portworx. "For the first time, we've eliminated the complex and expensive decision of purchasing storage for containers in production. Portworx will enable enterprises of all sizes to realize the true potential of containers".
Key features of PX-Enterprise include: scale-out block storage deployed as a container, which minimizes required resources, container-granular controls for storage capacity, performance and availability and replication, which adds an extra measure of redundancy.
It also offers the ability to deploy in the cloud, on-premises or both, preventing vendor lock-in. It has a RESTful API and a command-line interface, which allows easy deployment and integration with containers. Unified storage with a global file namespace along with multi-cluster visibility makes storage easy to deploy and manage. In addition predictive capacity management delivers proactive alerts before storage capacity is reached.
You can find out more about PX-Enterprise on the Portworx website.
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