Portworx Boosts Cloud-Native Data Security and Disaster Recovery

Portworx Enterprise 2.1 adds new capabilities to its cloud-native Kubernetes data management platform, improving resilience and security. Portworx announced the latest edition of its namesake cloud-native storage and data management platform on March 20, providing users with new security and disaster recovery capabilities. Portworx Enterprise 2.1 integrates a new feature the company has dubbed PX-Security, which provides granular role-based access controls that go beyond what are natively available in the open-source Kubernetes cloud-native container orchestration system. Data backup is being enhanced with the new PX-DR disaster recovery feature that provides low latency resiliency for critical data recovery. Kubernetes alone can't meet all of an enterprise's application needs," Murli Thirumale, co-founder and CEO of Portworx, told eWEEK. "There are needs around security monitoring, and particularly data storage and data management that are needed to really allow adoption of containers and Kubernetes orchestration across a wide set of application platforms.