The Kubernetes orchestration standard was designed to make cloud-native application deployment faster, easier and more flexible.

Given its current place as a de-facto enterprise standard, the industry is at an inflection point given Kubernetes’ usefulness to data centers and even the multicloud.

“If you’re building or running your infrastructure or app now, and if you’re not running it with Kubernetes, you’re doing something wrong,” said Venkat Ramakrishnan (pictured, right), vice president of engineering and products, Cloud-Native Business Unit, at Pure Storage Inc. “You need to reevaluate your strategy because there’s enough tooling and orchestration built around Kubernetes and the ecosystem is so healthy and vibrant, with so many tooling choices available.”

Ramakrishnan and Jelle Wolthuizen (left), product manager of managed container services at DXC Technology Co., spoke with theCUBE industry analysts Savannah Peterson and Rob Strechay at the KubeCon + CloudNativeCon Europe event, during an exclusive broadcast on theCUBE, SiliconANGLE Media’s livestreaming studio. They discussed the partnership between DXC and Portworx. (* Disclosure below.)

What both companies hope to achieve together

Large enterprises and government agencies with legacy or sensitive workloads aren’t known for early-adopting tools like Kubernetes. And for DXC customers, in particular, implementing such critical containerization demands requires gap-free infrastructure integration and ensuring continued support, according to Wolthuizen.

“Where we come in is to build and get them using Kubernetes at scale and reliably, with enterprise-grade solutions to run their business-critical applications on,” he said. “I always say we do the difficult stuff, because it’s more than just spinning up a Kubernetes instance.”

Portworx, a Pure Storage company, has maintained a long-standing strategic partnership with DXC to extend solutions to new customers — particularly in the EU. This tie-in has helped both companies grow their end-user offerings together.

“We’ve had some very successful installs with very large European companies with DXC,” Ramakrishnan explained. “We have a long history of partnering and maturing the products together and making it work for our customers, and this continued through the Pure acquisition.”

One of DXC’s clients operating in Germany’s banking sector is a prime example. Its legacy container platform was upgraded to OpenShift and integrated with Portworx for continuity and disaster recovery.

“We implemented [Portworx] to provide a constant synchronization of the stateful application’s state towards the disaster recovery side but also of the state of the container platform itself,” Wolthuizen said. “This is synchronized in milliseconds.”

Here’s the complete video interview, part of SiliconANGLE’s and theCUBE’s coverage of the KubeCon + CloudNativeCon Europe event:

(* Disclosure: Portworx by Pure Storage Inc. sponsored this segment of theCUBE. Neither Portworx nor other sponsors have editorial control over content on theCUBE or SiliconANGLE.)

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