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Running Apache Kafka on Kubernetes with Portworx enables you to:
- Gain operational efficiency in managing a scalable Kafka cluster through improved broker failover time and fully automated storage capacity expansion
- Enhance security with encryption-at-rest for Kafka broker data
- Migrate Kafka applications along with data between environments like prod, dev, test, and across cloud providers or data centers
- Gain additional storage savings through deduplication and compression on Pure Storage FlashArray