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."