Update brings new tools for stateful apps running on Kubernetes and a Portworx survey reveals data mobility and data protection as the biggest challenges when managing stateful apps.
Application and data protection
Portworx by Pure Storage, a Kubernetes Data Services Platform, has announced the release of PX-Backup 2.1, its application and data protection platform for modern applications. The new release provides a range of tools for stateful apps running on Kubernetes. Portworx also released new survey data assessing end user perspectives on running stateful applications on Kubernetes.
The latest enhancements to PX-Backup include:
- PX-Backup delivers application portability between any cloud or on-premises data centre. Users can now back up Kubernetes applications running in one cloud or data centre and restore them in any other.
- PX-Backup can now offload backups from CSI snapshots to object storage. Enterprises running Kubernetes apps on Portworx PX-Store, any CSI compliant storage service, or cloud-based storage can now use PX-Backup to maintain three copies of data (production, snapshots, backup copy) across both disk and object storage. This provides flexibility to store data offsite (in any cloud), fulfilling the requirements of a 3-2-1 based backup program.
- In addition to existing capabilities to backup block-based workloads, enterprises can now backup and recover applications running on read-write-many (RWX) persistent volumes provisioned as file shares from FlashBlade, Portworx proxy volumes, or any NFS server.
- PX-Backup users can now leverage both the role-based access controls and encryption services offered in Portworx PX-Secure, gaining an added layer of security support for their modern applications and the ability to reduce management overhead.
End user survey
In an end user survey of 500 IT professionals, over half of respondents cited increasing agility (58%) and increasing resilience (52%) as the biggest drivers behind their team’s decision to build and deploy stateful applications on Kubernetes. Key survey findings include:
Respondents agreed that running stateful apps on Kubernetes allows them to develop (54%) and scale (55%) their apps faster, while allowing developers to be more efficient (55%).
Backup and restore (55%), data mobility and capacity management (49%), and high availability (48%) were identified as the most critical requirements for stateful apps running on Kubernetes.
Data Mobility (29%) is the requirement IT professionals most often struggle to achieve when running stateful apps on Kubernetes, data protection (46%) is the biggest operational challenge.
A majority (87%) of respondents expect the percentage of stateful workloads to increase over the next 12 months, while 9% expect it to stay the same, and only 4% expect it to decrease.
“The latest survey findings underscore the urgency of securing mission-critical Kubernetes applications with a comprehensive data protection and compliance strategy. With the latest PX-Backup enhancements, we’re excited to offer global customers a vendor-agnostic solution to truly manage and secure their modern, yet distributed, Kubernetes infrastructure,” said Murli Thirumale, VP and GM, Cloud Native Business Unit, Pure Storage.
PX-Backup 2.1 will be available in November 2021.
