Modern apps are the key to competitiveness, but traditional storage can’t keep up — especially when cloud-native solutions are becoming increasingly important.

Pure Storage Inc. acquired Portworx at the end of 2020 to help solve this problem, because it’s clear that cloud-native will continue to expand, according to Murli Thirumale (pictured), vice president and general manager of the Cloud Native Business Unit of Portworx.

“Cloud-native is exploding; containers are exploding,” Thirumale said. “It’s kind of a well-known fact that 85% of the enterprise organizations around the world are pretty much going to be deploying containers, if not already, in the next couple of years.”

Thirumale spoke with theCUBE industry analyst John Furrier during last year’s AWS Summit San Francisco event about the explosion of cloud-native platforms and how Portworx by Pure Storage is coming up with new storage solutions. (* Disclosure below.)

Cloud-native data services for modern apps

Portworx by Pure Storage provides Kubernetes data services with the performance, data protection and security that modern apps require in an automated, multicloud world, Thirumale pointed out. Portworx has also helped create the first database-as-a-service platform for Kubernetes, and this platform provides a fully integrated solution for persistent storage, security, data protection and automated capacity management for Kubernetes apps.

This is all crucial because of the contrast between a maturing cloud-native landscape and the people who are still trying to play catch up with the skillsets to manage a complex environment, Thirumale added.

“[You talk about] security … ransomware, disaster recovery backup,” said Thirumale. “That’s the kind of stuff that Portworx and Pure Storage have been focused on solving, and that’s been how we’ve made our mark in the industry. We’ve helped people really get to production on some of these different points.”

Portworx by Pure Storage also has a strategic alliance with Amazon Web Services Inc., and they announced last year that Portworx Backup-as-a-Service is offered on AWS’ Elastic Kubernetes Service.

“We’re … running on AWS, as a service integrated with AWS,” Thirumale concluded. “If you have a containerized set of applications you’re deploying, we automatically provide the ability for that to be backed up scaled and to be very container granular, very app-specific.”

Here’s the complete video interview, part of SiliconANGLE’s and theCUBE’s coverage of the AWS Summit San Francisco event:

(* Disclosure: TheCUBE is a paid media partner for the AWS Summit San Francisco event. Neither Amazon Web Services Inc., the sponsor for theCUBE’s event coverage, nor other sponsors have editorial control over content on theCUBE or SiliconANGLE.)

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