Google Kubernetes Engine (GKE) makes deploying Kubernetes clusters simple, but running stateful, data-heavy applications at scale introduces new challenges.
While GCP Persistent Disks offer a solid foundation, they impose several operational and architectural limits:
- Performance and capacity are tied to fixed disk sizes and types
- Cross-zone replication and regional protection increase complexity and cost
- Snapshots lack full app-consistency for production workloads
- Scaling requires manual resizing and reconfiguration
- Over-provisioning drives inefficient storage consumption
As enterprises adopt GKE for databases, analytics, and other critical services, these limitations slow cloud-native adoption and inflate infrastructure costs.
Solution
Portworx gives GKE a smarter, more flexible data layer. By virtualizing Google Cloud storage into a single, software-defined pool, Portworx delivers elastic capacity, automated scaling, and built-in data protection—without the operational overhead of managing disks manually.
With Portworx on GCP, you can:
- Aggregate and manage storage across zones, regions, or hybrid clouds
- Use thin provisioning to dynamically allocate capacity as applications grow
- Scale performance automatically based on workload demand
- Replicate data across zones for continuous availability
- Automate app-consistent backups and restores
- Enforce encryption and access policies at the container level
The result: predictable performance, lower costs, and a unified storage experience across every GKE cluster.
Common use cases:
Global enterprises running critical applications on GKE rely on Portworx to optimize storage, simplify protection, and accelerate modernization.
- Migrate databases and workloads from on-prem or VMware to GKE
- Protect cloud-native applications with built-in DR and backup
- Enable multi-region replication and hybrid mobility
- Recover instantly from outages or ransomware incidents
- Consolidate Kubernetes data management across teams and clusters
Portworx gives GKE users the flexibility of the cloud with the reliability of enterprise storage
