Portworx provides a cloud‑native data management platform for Kubernetes that delivers container‑aware persistent storage with automated capacity scaling and intelligent placement across on‑premises and public clouds. The platform includes application‑aware backup, immutable snapshots, and disaster‑recovery replication to achieve near‑zero RPO and fast RTO, all managed through a unified control plane and APIs for enterprise IT and platform teams.
Funding
$27M raised to dateRaised to date based on public sources. This may differ from the amount the company actually raised and is based only on what is publicly available on the internet.
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Problem
Enterprises running stateful workloads on Kubernetes face fragmented storage stacks, manual capacity planning, and limited data protection across on‑premises, public, and hybrid clouds. This leads to operational overhead, risk of data loss, and difficulty meeting availability and compliance requirements.
Solution
Portworx delivers a cloud‑native data management platform built specifically for Kubernetes. It provides elastic, container‑aware persistent storage that can be provisioned in seconds and automatically balanced across clusters. Integrated application‑aware backup and restore enable single‑click protection with granular, container‑level granularity and ransomware‑resistant immutability. Disaster‑recovery policies support synchronous and asynchronous replication, delivering near‑zero RPO and fast RTO without custom scripting. A unified control plane and self‑service UI expose APIs for capacity automation, performance tuning, and role‑based access, allowing platform teams to manage data consistently across any Kubernetes distribution or cloud provider.
Target Audience
The platform targets enterprise IT and platform‑engineering teams that run mission‑critical, stateful applications on Kubernetes, including internal developer platform (IDP) providers, DevOps engineers, and database administrators across regulated industries.
Features
- Container‑granular persistent volumes with thin provisioning and intelligent affinity/anti‑affinity placement rules.
- Automated capacity management engine that dynamically scales, balances, and resizes storage pools across hybrid and multi‑cloud environments.
- Application‑aware backup with point‑in‑time snapshots, incremental/differential capture, and single‑click restores for containers and VMs.
- Enterprise‑grade data protection: RBAC, end‑to‑end encryption, immutable snapshots, and ransomware detection (3‑2‑1 backup rule support).
- Disaster‑recovery service offering synchronous replication for zero RPO and asynchronous replication with configurable RPO/RTO policies.
- Native integrations with Red Hat OpenShift, SUSE Rancher, Amazon EKS, Azure AKS, Google GKE, and IBM Cloud via CSI drivers.
- Self‑service developer portal and REST/CLI APIs for on‑demand storage, database‑as‑a‑service, and CI/CD pipeline automation.
- SOC 2 and ISO 27001 compliance, with audit logging and centralized monitoring dashboards.