{"id":35701,"date":"2022-05-18T06:45:00","date_gmt":"2022-05-18T06:45:00","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/cloudnewshub.com\/archives\/35701"},"modified":"2022-05-18T06:45:00","modified_gmt":"2022-05-18T06:45:00","slug":"portworx-adds-anti-ransomware-to-px-backup-for-kubernetes","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/cloudnewshub.com\/?p=35701","title":{"rendered":"Portworx adds anti-ransomware to PX-Backup for Kubernetes"},"content":{"rendered":"
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Pure Storage will add anti-ransomware object locking<\/a> in its Portworx PX-Backup product while the Portworx Data Services database-as-a-service offering and PX-backup-as-a-service will now be generally available, according to announcements from Pure at the KubeCon event in Spain.<\/p>\n

Portworx is Pure Storage\u2019s container storage<\/a> and data protection platform. There were also some additions to the main product, Portworx Enterprise.<\/p>\n

PX-Backup 2.2 has added object locking, which can be on any object storage, on-premise or in the cloud and including non-Pure Storage products. This is aimed at recovery from ransomware attacks<\/a>, where customers can restore to existing copies of their data that have been placed beyond reach of bad actors by locking them.<\/p>\n

Portworx will add SafeMode immutable snapshot<\/a> functionality to PX-Backup in Q4 of 2022. SafeMode already exists as an immutable snapshot feature in Pure\u2019s Purity<\/a> operating system.<\/p>\n

PX-Backup was originally launched in 2019 at Kubecon, to address pain points in addition to the core storage-related functionality tackled by Portworx as a data management tool for Kubernetes.<\/p>\n

Meanwhile, a couple of products previously on limited programmes have gone to general availability. These include Portworx Data Services, which brings the ability to run and manage a range of databases in Kubernetes.<\/p>\n

\u201cIt\u2019s a single-click curated set of databases and Portworx can manage deployment from day one to day three,\u201d said Venkat Ramankrishnan<\/a>, vice-president for product engineering with Portworx. \u201cMost platform admins don\u2019t have wide skills in databases and vice versa with database admins and Kubernetes. It is aimed at filling these gaps in skills.\u201d<\/p>\n

Pure claims Portworx Data Services is the first Kubernetes database-as-a-service platform. It comes amid an identifiable trend among storage vendors to add database services to their cloud and container-oriented offerings, such as that enabled by Pure\u2019s partnership with Snowflake<\/a> and NetApp\u2019s offer<\/a> of database, messaging and workflow tools with Spot.<\/p>\n

Data services \u2013 it includes databases, event handling and messaging platforms \u2013 supported include Cassandra, Kafka, PostgreSQL, RabbitMQ, Redis and Zookeeper, with more to come. The service is billed via consumption-based pricing.<\/p>\n

PX backup as-a service has also gone to general availability. It supports backup and restore of any Kubernetes services including Amazon EKS, Red Hat OpenShift, Google Kubernetes Engine, VMware Tanzu and Microsoft Azure Kubernetes Service. For now, however, auto detection of Kubernetes nodes and clusters is only available in AWS EKS.<\/p>\n

Customers don\u2019t need to be Pure Storage or Portworx customers to use PX backup as a service and it can be trialled for free on a small-scale basis. The service allows customers to point the software at any Kubernetes cluster and configure jobs, with backup targets possible on any container storage initiative-enabled storage.<\/p>\n

Role-based access in Portworx backup has been enhanced with added levels of privilege for different users.<\/p>\n

Finally, the main Portworx Enterprise product has been given the ability to control IOPS and bandwidth according to user and applications profile; 5G\/edge and IPv6 deployment; unified \u2013 file, block and object \u2013 storage overlays, and high-performance storage with PX-Fast.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"

Pure Storage will add anti-ransomware object locking in its Portworx PX-Backup product while the Portworx Data Services database-as-a-service offering and PX-backup-as-a-service will now be generally available, according to announcements from Pure at the KubeCon event in Spain. Portworx is Pure Storage\u2019s container storage and data protection platform. There were also some additions to the main […]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":35702,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[533],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-35701","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","hentry","category-it"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/cloudnewshub.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/35701","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/cloudnewshub.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/cloudnewshub.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/cloudnewshub.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/users\/1"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/cloudnewshub.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcomments&post=35701"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/cloudnewshub.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/35701\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/cloudnewshub.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/media\/35702"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/cloudnewshub.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fmedia&parent=35701"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/cloudnewshub.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcategories&post=35701"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/cloudnewshub.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Ftags&post=35701"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}