Pure Storage will add anti-ransomware object locking in its Portworx PX-Backup product whereas the Portworx Knowledge Companies database-as-a-service providing and PX-backup-as-a-service will now be usually out there, in accordance with bulletins from Pure on the KubeCon occasion in Spain.
Portworx is Pure Storage’s container storage and information safety platform. There have been additionally some additions to the principle product, Portworx Enterprise.
PX-Backup 2.2 has added object locking, which might be on any object storage, on-premise or within the cloud and together with non-Pure Storage merchandise. That is geared toward recovery from ransomware attacks, the place prospects can restore to current copies of their information which were positioned past attain of unhealthy actors by locking them.
Portworx will add SafeMode immutable snapshot performance to PX-Backup in This fall of 2022. SafeMode already exists as an immutable snapshot function in Pure’s Purity working system.
PX-Backup was initially launched in 2019 at Kubecon, to deal with ache factors along with the core storage-related performance tackled by Portworx as an information administration software for Kubernetes.
In the meantime, a few merchandise beforehand on restricted programmes have gone to basic availability. These embody Portworx Knowledge Companies, which brings the flexibility to run and handle a variety of databases in Kubernetes.
“It’s a single-click curated set of databases and Portworx can handle deployment from day one to day three,” mentioned Venkat Ramankrishnan, vice-president for product engineering with Portworx. “Most platform admins don’t have large abilities in databases and vice versa with database admins and Kubernetes. It’s geared toward filling these gaps in abilities.”
Pure claims Portworx Knowledge Companies is the primary Kubernetes database-as-a-service platform. It comes amid an identifiable development amongst storage distributors so as to add database companies to their cloud and container-oriented choices, akin to that enabled by Pure’s partnership with Snowflake and NetApp’s offer of database, messaging and workflow instruments with Spot.
Knowledge companies – it contains databases, occasion dealing with and messaging platforms – supported embody Cassandra, Kafka, PostgreSQL, RabbitMQ, Redis and Zookeeper, with extra to return. The service is billed through consumption-based pricing.
PX backup as-a service has additionally gone to basic availability. It helps backup and restore of any Kubernetes companies together with Amazon EKS, Crimson Hat OpenShift, Google Kubernetes Engine, VMware Tanzu and Microsoft Azure Kubernetes Service. For now, nonetheless, auto detection of Kubernetes nodes and clusters is barely out there in AWS EKS.
Clients don’t have to be Pure Storage or Portworx prospects to make use of PX backup as a service and it may be trialled at no cost on a small-scale foundation. The service permits prospects to level the software program at any Kubernetes cluster and configure jobs, with backup targets potential on any container storage initiative-enabled storage.
Function-based entry in Portworx backup has been enhanced with added ranges of privilege for various customers.
Lastly, the principle Portworx Enterprise product has been given the flexibility to manage IOPS and bandwidth in accordance with consumer and functions profile; 5G/edge and IPv6 deployment; unified – file, block and object – storage overlays, and high-performance storage with PX-Quick.
