Pure Storage & Red Hat boost modern virtualisation with Portworx

Pure Storage and Red Hat have announced a joint optimization for Portworx by Pure Storage on Red Hat OpenShift. This aims to streamline integration and provide enterprises with a smooth transition towards modern virtualization. As a result of this collaboration, businesses can accelerate their time to market and experience a consistent and flexible data experience from a unified platform for deploying, scaling and managing their applications.

According to recent research, four out of five data management stakeholders are looking to modernize or migrate their existing virtual machine (VM) workloads to cloud-native institutions, with 79% citing operational simplicity as the main reason. However, multiple platforms supporting both VMs and containers can be both cumbersome and exorbitantly costly—particularly when VM-based applications require re-architecting for compatibility with modern frameworks. This can hinder development, operational complexity and obstruct visibility of data.

The optimization and co-development of Portworx by Pure Storage and Red Hat OpenShift can resolve these complications. By supporting both containers and VMs, this collaboration allows customers to standardize end-to-end application modernization at scale. Enterprises can now run traditional virtualized applications alongside modern containerized applications, streamlining operations, reducing costs, and shedding light on the entire application development process.

Murli Thirumale, GM of Portworx by Pure Storage, commented on the collaboration saying, "This new integration allows enterprises to build a modern virtualization stack, achieving the benefits of Kubernetes without re-architecting VMs. Our collaboration with Red Hat accelerates not only application development and deployment but also extends enterprise reliability and operational flexibility across hybrid cloud environments."

Further benefits of this optimization include accelerated time to market due to improved operational efficiency, simplified and more consistent development and management, and the flexibility to deploy VMs and containers in any digital environment. As per estimations, such an integration could result in a remarkable 63% cost reduction, encompassing expenses related to infrastructure, licenses and subscriptions when compared with alternate options.

Mike Barrett, vice president and general manager, Hybrid Platforms, Red Hat emphasised this by saying, "By integrating VMs and containers within a unified framework, we offer enterprises flexibility and efficiency in infrastructure deployment, storage management and the overall application lifecycle. Our partnership with Portworx empowers customers to standardize their IT environments whilst rapidly progressing towards modern virtualization."

This evolutionary step in virtualization is leading many organisations to revise their IT infrastructures and application structures, particularly those dependent on VMs. As Archana Venkatraman, Research Director, Cloud Data Management, IDC, stated, "The integration of Portworx and Red Hat OpenShift equips enterprises with the tools needed for the seamless integration of containers and VMs on a single infrastructure, driving efficiency, agility, and significant cost savings."