Together, Portworx by Pure Storage and Red Hat
OpenShift unify VMs and containers to meet enterprise-grade
requirements for application modernization at scale on any compute
and storage infrastructure
Pure Storage® (NYSE:PSTG), the IT pioneer that delivers the
world’s most advanced data storage technology and services, and Red
Hat, the world's leading provider of open source solutions, today
announced an optimization for Portworx® by Pure Storage on Red Hat
OpenShift to enable streamlined integration and provide enterprises
with a more seamless path to modern virtualization.
By delivering a single platform to deploy, scale, and manage
modern applications, and a single control plane for both virtual
machines (VMs) and containers, Pure Storage and Red Hat can help
accelerate time to market and provide a consistent and flexible
data experience.
Enterprises are increasingly moving applications to containers
to speed and scale deployment. However, many enterprises remain
significantly invested in large traditional application footprints
that run in VMs. Supporting multiple platforms based on both VMs
and containers is cumbersome and expensive, often exacerbated by
the need to re-architect VM-based applications for compatibility
with modern frameworks. This can slow development, create
operational complexity, and hinder data visibility. In fact,
according to a recent survey1, more than 4 out of 5 (81%) of data
management stakeholders are planning to modernize or migrate
existing VM workloads to cloud-native, with 79% citing operational
simplicity as a key driver for these plans.
Portworx by Pure Storage and Red Hat OpenShift, through Red Hat
OpenShift Virtualization, support both containers and VMs, enabling
customers to standardize end-to-end application modernization at
scale. With the latest optimization and co-development, enterprises
can run traditional virtualized applications side-by-side with
modern containerized applications, streamlining operations,
reducing costs, and bringing the entire application development
process together.
Portworx brings enterprise-grade data management capabilities to
Red Hat OpenShift customers to not only migrate VMs to Red Hat
OpenShift but also provide developers with a single, self-service
portal to build, test, and deploy applications, with integrated
support for storage, data, and the entire application lifecycle
management. Benefits include:
- Faster time to market with enhanced operational
efficiency: Enterprises can improve time to production with
self-service options for development teams to quickly migrate VMs,
and apply cloud-native operational and development practices to
VMs, accelerating time to value. Additionally, Portworx and Red Hat
offer more cost-effective options for customers to shorten ramp-up
time and Day 2 operations, resulting in a remarkable estimated 63%
cost reduction encompassing infrastructure expenses, licenses, and
subscriptions when compared to alternatives.
- Simplified, more consistent development and management:
Together, Portworx and Red Hat help simplify the management of VMs
and containers with a unified view, and a more consistent set of
storage, data, and application management tools, creating better
alignment between virtualization admins and platform engineering
teams.
- Flexibility to deploy VMs and containers anywhere:
Enterprises can modernize their VM-based applications by benefiting
from the modern storage, data, and application management
principles by integrating Portworx with Red Hat OpenShift. This
enables enterprises with greater flexibility to deploy VM and
containerized applications on any on-premises, cloud, hybrid or
multi-cloud infrastructure while maintaining consistent storage and
data services.
Red Hat Summit
Join the Red Hat Summit keynotes to hear the latest from Red Hat
executives, customers and partners:
- The cloud is hybrid. So is AI. — Tuesday, May 7, 8-10
a.m. MDT (YouTube, LinkedIn)
- Optimizing IT for the AI era. — Wednesday, May 8,
8:30-9:30 a.m. MDT (YouTube, LinkedIn)
Hear more from Pure Storage at Red Hat Summit:
- Unlocking the value of Kubernetes Data with Portworx and Red
Hat OpenShift – Tuesday, May 7, 11:45 a.m. MDT
- Embracing Modern Virtualization: Insights from Portworx and Red
Hat OpenShift – Thursday, May 9, 10:50 a.m. MDT
Supporting Quotes
Mike Barrett, vice president and general manager, Hybrid
Platforms, Red Hat
“Portworx offers enterprise-class storage capabilities such as
high availability, performance, backup and disaster recovery for
both VMs and containers running in Red Hat OpenShift. Together, we
are providing a powerful solution for enterprises seeking to
modernize their application development without the complexities of
managing disparate development platforms. By more seamlessly
integrating VMs and containers within a unified framework, we offer
enterprises flexibility and efficiency in infrastructure
deployment, storage management, and the overall application
lifecycle. Our collaboration with Portworx empowers customers to
standardize their IT environments while accelerating their journey
towards modern virtualization.”
Murli Thirumale, general manager, Portworx by Pure Storage
“Enabling integration for Portworx on Red Hat OpenShift
represents a pivotal advancement in modern IT infrastructure
representing the modern storage and compute building blocks,
respectively. By combining the Portworx platform’s robust data
management capabilities with the agility and scalability of Red Hat
OpenShift, enterprises gain the foundation for building a modern
virtualization stack, achieving the benefits of Kubernetes without
rearchitecting VMs. Our collaboration with Red Hat not only
accelerates application development and deployment but helps drive
enterprise reliability and operational flexibility across complex,
hybrid cloud environments.”
Archana Venkatraman, Research Director, Cloud Data Management,
IDC
“The virtualization landscape is undergoing rapid
transformation, prompting organizations to reevaluate their IT
infrastructures and application architectures, particularly those
heavily reliant on VMs. Many are now accelerating the modernization
of monolithic applications into cloud-native or microservices-based
architectures. The integration of Portworx and Red Hat OpenShift
arms enterprises with the tools they need to seamlessly integrate
containers and VMs on a unified infrastructure while driving
efficiency, agility, and significant cost savings.”
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About Pure Storage
Pure Storage (NYSE: PSTG) delivers the industry’s best platform
to store, manage, and protect the world’s data. With a cloud
experience across a unified storage operating environment, Pure
empowers every organization with the agility to meet evolving data
requirements at speed and scale, while reducing total cost of
ownership. Pure believes it can make a meaningful impact in
reducing data center emissions worldwide by providing a storage
platform that enables customers to significantly reduce their
carbon and energy footprint. Pure is proud to be a customer-first
organization, as evidenced by the highest Net Promoter Score in the
industry. For more information, visit www.purestorage.com.
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1Survey conducted by Dimensional Research, commissioned by Pure
Storage, in April 2024 of more than 500 qualified participants. All
participants were directly responsible (hands-on or management) for
data services in a Kubernetes environment at a company with more
than 500 employees.
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Kaylin Deutscher, Pure Storage pr@purestorage.com
Jessie Beach, Red Hat press@redhat.com