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Why Modern Virtualization?

While cloud-native development continues to grow, many enterprises still rely on a number of virtual machine or VM-based applications or on databases that must live on top of VMs. Today, these companies are having to spend significant money to maintain both their virtual machine infrastructure alongside their Kubernetes infrastructure.

Red Hat OpenShift Virtualization (OSV), based on the KubeVirt project, addresses this challenge by providing VM infrastructure within Kubernetes clusters. This means that organizations can easily run applications in VMs alongside applications in containers, taking advantage of a common user experience and allowing enterprises to rehost, refactor, redeploy or rebuild applications if and when they are ready as part of their app modernization efforts.

Customer Challenges with Traditional Virtualization

Unsustainable Cost Model

Changes to licensing and operating costs for traditional virtualization have dramatically increased the cost of maintaining a traditional app development platform

Investment Risk

Risk of decline in product support, engineering, and partner resources has introduced significant systemic risk to legacy app development

Lack of App Innovation

Significant technical debt and lack of interoperability between traditional and modern app development has slowed the innovation engine

Storage & Data Management: VMware vs. Portworx

Benefit VMware Capability Portworx Capability
Data Availability Shared Storage or vSAN FTT Portworx Storage Cluster
Async Disaster Recovery VMware Site Recovery Manager Portworx AsyncDR
Sync Disaster Recovery VMware Metro Storage Cluster Portworx SyncDR
Encryption Security Abstraction / Volume Encryption Portworx Encryption
Data Protection VM-aware Backups (Partner) Container Aware Portworx Backup
Storage Performance SIOC Portworx Application I/O Control (Per PV or StorageClass)
Data Portability Storage vMotion Portworx Migrate
Capacity Management Thin Provisioning Thin Provisioning / AutoPilot

Portworx Solution

storage self service
Automate
Accelerate Time To Revenue with Storage Automation for VMs and Containers:

  • Accelerate app deployment with automated, self-service storage that enable teams to run and scale VMs and containers running on Red Hat OpenShift
  • Enable customers to modernize their Windows-based apps by providing a platform that supports both SQL Server and .NET containers on Linux
  • Allow developers to streamline application delivery across the platform including integration of VMs into development pipelines
build once port anywhere
Protect
Mitigate enterprise risk with flexible, secure, data platform for VMs and Containers

  • Streamline management of application storage and data across any on-premises, public cloud, or hybrid and multicloud location
  • Improve operational consistency with with a single storage management framework across the organization for VMs and containers
  • Reduce license and personnel costs through leveraging a single control plane that can support the full application development lifecycle
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Unify
Streamline Operations with a Unified Storage & App Platform for VMs and Containers

  • Streamline management of application storage and data across any on-premises, public cloud, or hybrid and multicloud location
  • Improve operational consistency with with a single storage management framework across the organization for VMs and containers
  • Reduce license and personnel costs through leveraging a single control plane that can support the full application development lifecycle
A large financial services company transitioned away from their traditional virtualization stack, consolidating both their VM and containerized applications on Red Hat OpenShift with Portworx by Pure Storage providing persistent storage and data services.

Large financial services customer

$1.5M

$1.5M / year in VM license savings
Zero downtime
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