Increase Deployment Frequency and Application Resilience with Portworx
Modern applications are managed at scale using Kubernetes. But traditional storage infrastructure can limit the speed, agility, and portability that made you choose Kubernetes in the first place. This limitation becomes even more pronounced as AI agents start to manage infrastructure, increasing the velocity of change.
Portworx provides Kubernetes data management capabilities to help you build, automate, and protect modern application data at scale. Portworx integrates with your internal development platforms/environments and delivers:
- Developer self-service Kubernetes storage and data management via native APIs
- Application-aware data protection for mission-critical resilience
- Automated Day-2 operations – including scaling and rightsizing – across any cloud or infrastructure to reduce costs and simplify operations
Developer Self-service
Give developers instant access to storage and data management operations via Kubernetes APIs, removing tickets, and infrastructure bottlenecks
Application-aware Data Protection
Combine data replication, container-granular backup and Zero RPO disaster recovery to ensure mission-critical resilience and data availability
Automated Day-2 Operations
Automate Day-2 scaling and management across any infrastructure for VMs and containers to eliminate manual operational silos and reduce TCO
Container and Kubernetes Adoption Insights
95 %
Global orgs will be running containerized apps in production by 2029*
95 %
New AI deployments will use Kubernetes by 2028+
88 %
Companies say their Kubernetes TCO has grown over the past 12 months **
* A CTO’s Guide to Containers and Kubernetes: Top 10 FAQs,Gartner G00804257
+ May, 2025 Gartner® Magic Quadrant™ for Container Management
** 2025 State of Production Kubernetes, Spectro Cloud
How Portworx Enhances Modern Application Development
How to automate storage and data management for developers?
Portworx automates storage and data management through a Kubernetes-native, self-service platform that removes manual tasks and enables application-centric operations.
It integrates directly with Kubernetes to automate provisioning, protection, and scaling in your development platform or environment.
Key capabilities:
- Self-service provisioning: Developers instantly request storage via Kubernetes APIs.
- Policy-driven automation: Handles scaling, replication, backups, and DR automatically.
- Application-aware management: Aligns storage with application needs for performance and reliability.
- Auto-scaling: Adjusts capacity dynamically to optimize resources.
- Integrated protection: Built-in backups and recovery without extra tools.
Result: faster deployments, reduced DevOps friction, and greater developer productivity.
How to protect data and enable Zero-RPO for mission-critical applications?
Portworx protects data in Kubernetes through built-in, application-aware data protection and disaster recovery.
It integrates natively with Kubernetes to automate backup, replication, and failover in your development platform or environment.
Key capabilities:
- Automated backups: Application-consistent backups and snapshots with policy-based scheduling.
- Disaster recovery: Synchronous and asynchronous replication, including Zero RPO for critical applications.
- Granular recovery: Restore entire applications or individual components quickly.
- Security & isolation: Encryption, RBAC, and multi-tenancy controls protect data access.
- Cross-cluster mobility: Seamlessly migrate and recover data across clusters and clouds.
Result: resilient, secure applications with rapid recovery and minimal risk of data loss.
How to automate Day-2 data operations in Kubernetes?
Portworx streamlines and simplifies Day-2 data operations through policy-driven, Kubernetes-native automation that manages data throughout the application lifecycle.
It eliminates manual tasks by embedding data operations directly into your development platform or environment.
Key capabilities:
- Automated scaling: Dynamically expands storage and adjusts resources as workloads grow.
- Self-healing operations: Automatically handles failover, rescheduling, and data recovery.
- Policy-based management: Defines rules for backups, replication, and performance.
- Seamless upgrades: Non-disruptive updates for storage and data services.
- Capacity optimization: Monitors and reclaims storage to prevent overprovisioning.
Result: simplified operations, reduced overhead, and reliable performance at scale.
How does Portworx deliver lower infrastructure TCO?
Portworx delivers lower infrastructure TCO by maximizing resource efficiency and consolidating data services into a single platform.
It reduces costs by eliminating overprovisioning and simplifying operations across environments.
Key capabilities:
- Resource efficiency: Auto-scaling and thin provisioning optimize storage utilization.
- Tool consolidation: Combines storage, backup, and DR, reducing licensing costs.
- Run anywhere: Uses existing infrastructure across cloud and on-prem.
- Operational savings: Automation reduces manual effort and support overhead.
- VMware cost reduction: Enables alternatives to expensive legacy virtualization stacks.
Result: lower infrastructure, licensing, and operational costs with better utilization at scale.
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Customer Stories
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Fiserv
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NVIDIA
"The impacts of the business are clearly reliable software deployments,where we're deploying more features…this allows developers to get towards multiple deployments perhaps per month, per week."
John Durko, Director of IT, Product Architect, Container Services at Fiserv
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“Development teams don’t need to think about what’s under the covers. Once it’s up and running we need availability…we have zero-down time maintenance, Portworx allows us to shift workloads to different nodes without any impact on our users.”
Brian Monroe, Senior Software Engineer, NVIDIA
Read the Case StudyModern Applications Need More Than Just a CSI Driver
Standard CSI drivers often fall short for modern application platforms because they lack the intelligence needed for dynamic, distributed scheduling. They create “CSI sprawl,” complicating multi-cloud migrations and Day 2 operations. Portworx overcomes these limits by providing a unified, Kubernetes-native storage fabric that automates data protection and mobility.
Modernize OpenShift with Portworx
Portworx extends Red Hat OpenShift with enterprise-grade storage and data services to support applications, virtual machines, and AI workloads in production. With Portworx, customers running on OpenShift can automate operations, protect critical data, and unify data management across on-premises, hybrid, and cloud environments
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Frequently Asked Questions
Q: How does Portworx automate storage and data management for developers?
Portworx automates storage and data management by providing a Kubernetes-native, self-service platform that eliminates manual infrastructure tasks.
Developers can instantly provision and manage storage using Kubernetes APIs, while Portworx automates scaling, data placement, backups, and recovery through policy-driven workflows.
Result: faster deployments, less operational overhead, and no dependency on infrastructure teams.
Q: How does Portworx ensure Zero RPO for mission-critical apps?
Portworx ensures Zero RPO (RPO=0) through synchronous replication across nodes, racks, or availability zones.
Data is written simultaneously to multiple replicas, so if a failure occurs, applications rapidly fail over with no data loss. This Kubernetes-native approach delivers continuous availability and meets strict SLAs for mission-critical workloads.
Q: How does Portworx automate Day-2 operations?
Portworx automates Day-2 operations by using policy-driven workflows for ongoing data management.
It handles tasks like scaling, backups, failover, upgrades, and capacity management automatically within Kubernetes. This eliminates manual intervention, reduces operational overhead, and ensures consistent, reliable performance for stateful applications in production.
Q: How does Portworx deliver lower infrastructure TCO?
Portworx lowers infrastructure TCO by maximizing resource efficiency and reducing tool sprawl.
It reduces overprovisioning through auto-scaling, consolidates storage, backup, and DR into one platform, and runs on existing infrastructure. This cuts licensing, operational overhead, and hardware costs while improving utilization across Kubernetes environments.