Portworx Launches Portworx Enterprise 2.2 to Address Top Challenges for Enterprise Container Adoption

Portworx, the cloud-native storage and data management company modern enterprises trust to manage data in containers, today announced Portworx Enterprise 2.2, an update to its cloud-native storage and data management platform with new features focused on security, data protection, and disaster recovery. With this update, Portworx Enterprise provides a one-command backup and recovery experience for complex applications running on Kubernetes, giving enterprises more control over their mission-critical data. With these new capabilities, Portworx is radically expanding the number of enterprise applications that can run on Kubernetes by solving hard, non-negotiable business requirements like data security and disaster recovery for Portworx's large and growing global customer base, including GE Digital, Lufthansa Systems, HPE and dozens of members of the Fortune Global 2000.According to Portworx and Aqua Security's 2019 Annual Container Adoption Survey, also published today, 87 percent of respondents report running container technologies – a massive increase from 55 percent in 2017 – with 9 in 10 of these enterprises running them in production. However, security, data management, and multi-cloud operations remain leading barriers to enterprise container adoption, with 40 percent of respondents citing data management, and 36 percent citing multi-cloud and cross-data center management among their top three concerns. Additionally, when asked to name their top three storage challenges, respondents most frequently cited data security (56%), concerns about data loss (46%), and planning for DR and business continuity (40%). Portworx Enterprise 2.2 addresses these challenges to give enterprises more control over their mission critical data by making essential capabilities like disaster recovery, business continuity, backups, restores and migrations of containerized apps faster and easier, all while maintaining data security."Digital transformation in the enterprise is being increasingly driven by technologies like containers and Kubernetes, which together enable teams to build better software faster, and to unleash radical innovation. But Kubernetes alone was not designed to handle the mission critical data services at the heart of enterprise applications. Unless Kubernetes can be augmented to satisfy non-negotiable business requirements like data security, data protection, backup and recovery, SLA management and compliance, digital transformation driven by Kubernetes will be incomplete," said Eric Han, VP of Product Management at Portworx. "We're releasing Portworx Enterprise 2.2 to help enterprises solve the toughest challenges for running containerized stateful applications on Kubernetes, allowing them to transform their business and get the most from their container investments."

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Airbyte Racks Up Awards from InfoWorld, BigDATAwire, Built In; Builds Largest and Fastest-Growing User Community

Airbyte | January 30, 2024

Airbyte, creators of the leading open-source data movement infrastructure, today announced a series of accomplishments and awards reinforcing its standing as the largest and fastest-growing data movement community. With a focus on innovation, community engagement, and performance enhancement, Airbyte continues to revolutionize the way data is handled and processed across industries. “Airbyte proudly stands as the front-runner in the data movement landscape with the largest community of more than 5,000 daily users and over 125,000 deployments, with monthly data synchronizations of over 2 petabytes,” said Michel Tricot, co-founder and CEO, Airbyte. “This unparalleled growth is a testament to Airbyte's widespread adoption by users and the trust placed in its capabilities.” The Airbyte community has more than 800 code contributors and 12,000 stars on GitHub. Recently, the company held its second annual virtual conference called move(data), which attracted over 5,000 attendees. Airbyte was named an InfoWorld Technology of the Year Award finalist: Data Management – Integration (in October) for cutting-edge products that are changing how IT organizations work and how companies do business. And, at the start of this year, was named to the Built In 2024 Best Places To Work Award in San Francisco – Best Startups to Work For, recognizing the company's commitment to fostering a positive work environment, remote and flexible work opportunities, and programs for diversity, equity, and inclusion. Today, the company received the BigDATAwire Readers/Editors Choice Award – Big Data and AI Startup, which recognizes companies and products that have made a difference. Other key milestones in 2023 include the following. Availability of more than 350 data connectors, making Airbyte the platform with the most connectors in the industry. The company aims to increase that to 500 high-quality connectors supported by the end of this year. More than 2,000 custom connectors were created with the Airbyte No-Code Connector Builder, which enables data connectors to be made in minutes. Significant performance improvement with database replication speed increased by 10 times to support larger datasets. Added support for five vector databases, in addition to unstructured data sources, as the first company to build a bridge between data movement platforms and artificial intelligence (AI). Looking ahead, Airbyte will introduce data lakehouse destinations, as well as a new Publish feature to push data to API destinations. About Airbyte Airbyte is the open-source data movement infrastructure leader running in the safety of your cloud and syncing data from applications, APIs, and databases to data warehouses, lakes, and other destinations. Airbyte offers four products: Airbyte Open Source, Airbyte Self-Managed, Airbyte Cloud, and Powered by Airbyte. Airbyte was co-founded by Michel Tricot (former director of engineering and head of integrations at Liveramp and RideOS) and John Lafleur (serial entrepreneur of dev tools and B2B). The company is headquartered in San Francisco with a distributed team around the world. To learn more, visit airbyte.com.

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