Pure
Storage announced the release of a
new Pure Validated Design (PVD) in collaboration with VMware to provide
mutual customers with a complete, full-stack solution for deploying
mission-critical, data rich workloads in production on VMware Tanzu. The
latest PVD provides a comprehensive architecture, including design
considerations and deployment best practices, that customers can use to
enable their stateful applications like databases, search, streaming,
and AI/machine learning apps running on VMware Tanzu to have access to
the critical container-granular storage and data management provided by
Portworx.
Today's
businesses are prioritizing the modernization of core applications and
infrastructure to fuel business agility, and are doing so by adopting
containers and Kubernetes for their applications and leveraging
solutions like VMware Tanzu for their infrastructure.
While
VMware Tanzu allows organizations to use their existing investments in
infrastructure to run enterprise-grade Kubernetes inside their own data
centers, enabling organizations to build, run, and manage modern
applications, Portworx by Pure Storage provides the critical layer of
persistent storage and data management needed to run stateful
applications more securely and effectively, offering features including
replication and higher availability, greater security and encryption,
capacity management, disaster recovery, and data protection.
The
latest PVD highlights the benefits of using Portworx with both Tanzu
Data Services and applications deployed on Tanzu. The four most common
use cases to help administrators deploy and operate a robust Kubernetes
stack include:
- Kubernetes Storage and Data Management for VMware Tanzu: Portworx
Enterprise provides cloud-native storage and data management for VMware
Tanzu, including features like replication and higher availability,
encryption and role based access controls, class of service, automated
capacity management and auto-scaling.
- Data Protection for VMware Tanzu: Portworx PX-Backup provides a Kubernetes backup and restoration solution for applications running on VMware Tanzu.
- Disaster Recovery for VMware Tanzu: To
enable customers to build disaster recovery solutions for their apps
running on VMware Tanzu, PX-DR provides synchronous and asynchronous
replication capabilities to enable that cloud native applications to
have the resiliency needed to meet predefined service-level agreements
(SLAs).
- Tanzu Data Services and Portworx: Portworx
Enterprise, PX-DR, and PX-Backup provide a consistent storage and data
management solution that can be used to enhance operational capabilities
for multiple VMware Tanzu Data Services.
Regardless
of whether an organization chooses to run their VMware Tanzu clusters
on premises or in the public cloud, they can still rely on Portworx to
provide the same set of storage and data services for their Tanzu
applications.
"Organizations
building modern applications need a modern platform and cloud-native
storage that can run anywhere - whether on-premises, in the cloud, or at
the edge. We are pleased to partner closely with Portworx by Pure
Storage on a validated design to provide organizations running
applications on VMware Tanzu with robust Kubernetes-native storage.
Together, we will continue to support our customers through their next
phase of growth and their transformation journeys." -- Ajay Patel, SVP, GM, Modern Applications & Management, VMware.
"We're
excited to be offering organizations a proven architecture to support
and accelerate the adoption of modern applications and Kubernetes. The
value of using both VMware and Portworx seamlessly together will be
paramount in helping organizations achieve business continuity, while
also ensuring that they get the best performance and reliability for
their mission-critical applications deployed on Tanzu." -- Murli Thirumale, VP, GM Cloud Native Business Unit, Pure Storage.