By MICHAEL CIRCLE
The Data Group News Service
Pure Storage Inc. and Red Hat Inc. announced Tuesday an optimized integration of Pure's Portworx data services platform with Red Hat's OpenShift Kubernetes platform. The integration aims to streamline modern virtualization and provide a seamless path for enterprises to deploy and manage both virtual machines and containerized applications.
Many enterprises have significant investments in traditional VM-based applications, while also adopting cloud-native containerized workloads. Managing and modernizing these hybrid environments across disparate platforms creates complexity and inhibits operational efficiency.
The new joint solution allows organizations to run VM and container-based applications side-by-side on a unified OpenShift platform, with consistent data services from Portworx. It provides self-service deployment options, unified management, flexibility to run on any infrastructure, and cost reduction estimated at 63% compared to alternatives.
"Our collaboration accelerates application development and deployment while driving reliability and flexibility across hybrid cloud environments," said Murli Thirumale, general manager of Portworx.
Red Hat's Mike Barrett, vice president and GM of hybrid platforms, said the partnership "empowers customers to standardize IT environments while accelerating modern virtualization."
IDC's Archana Venkatraman said the integration gives enterprises "tools to seamlessly integrate containers and VMs while driving efficiency, agility and cost savings" as they modernize applications.
Headquartered in Mountain View, California, Pure Storage provides data storage and services. Red Hat, based in Raleigh, North Carolina, is a leading provider of open source solutions.
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