This document discusses Portworx, a container data services platform that provides data protection, access, performance and security for stateful containers. It can be deployed as a container and fingerprints servers and storage. It pools capacity and provides data services across environments. The document promotes using Portworx Developer for prototyping and evaluating Portworx Enterprise for production with its advanced features and support. It also discusses why Rancher is a good choice to launch containers and infrastructure services quickly on various clouds.

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Data Services for
Containers

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Compute > Single Server
X86 Servers
Network
X86 Servers
Network
X86 Servers
Network
CPU
Memory
CPU
Memory
CPU
Memory
Schedulers
Storage Storage StorageData
Wordpress

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Survey: Tools Are the Top Pain Point for Containers + Storage
Issues with Existing Solutions:
1. Out of band provisioning
2. Reduce flexibility, especially
for hybrid organizations
3. Ineffective automation for
production lifecycle

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The Wrong Way to Provision Storage for Containers
SSD
HDD
volumenginx python mysql
SAN
html5 rest sql
Apps hit a wall going to production Out of band infrastructure provisioning
DevOps IT EBS

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Streamline Provisioning of Data Services to Apps
nginx python mysql
html5 rest sql Data Protection
Data Access
Performance
Secure Volumes
DevOps IT
SSD
HDD
SAN
EBS
Data Services

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Portworx for Containers
Deploys as a container
Fingerprints servers + storage
SSD
HDD
SAN
EBS
S3

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Portworx for Containers
SNA
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WordPress
Deploys as a container
Fingerprints servers + storage
Automated with scheduler to pool capacity
Provides container-level data services across environments
WordPress
FILES
MySQL MySQL

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Data Services for Containers
App Services
Data Protection
 Replication incl. regional
 Snapshot read / writeable
Data Access
 File, Block
 Unified namespace
 Auto expand capacity
Performance
 Prioritize IOPs per container
 Read parallelization
Secure Volumes
 ACL volumes
 Encryption inflight, at rest
All by dropping in a PX container.

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First Call to Action: Use PX-Dev for Your Developer Projects
 Prototyping with data services
 Protection and access features
 Free on up to 3 servers, 1TB
 http://docs.portworx.com

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Second Call to Action: Evaluate PX-Enterprise as You Move to Production
 Global view, 100 server clusters, soon 250+…
 Advanced features: ACL, encryption, multi-zone replication, …
 Enterprise Support
 info@portworx.com

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Data Services for Containers
App Level IT Admin Features Benefit
Data Protection
 Replication incl. regional
 Snapshot read / writeable
 Protect from drive degradation
 Async backup to S3
Higher uptime,
infra automation
Data Access
 File, Block
 Unified namespace
 Auto expand capacity
 Global GUI control
 Capacity plan
 Edit existing capacity
Cloud agnostic,
common IT UX
Performance
 Prioritize IOPs per container
 Read parallelization
 IOPS tiering over SSD / HDD
 Monitoring integration
Greater perf with
existing, lower capEx
Secure Volumes
 ACL volumes
 Encryption inflight, at rest
 Audit access
 BYOK encryption
Data sovereignty
PX-Dev
PX-Enterprise

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Why Rancher: from the Portworx Perspective
 Start to finish
• Launch Containers and Infrastructure services in seconds
• Rich Community + Enterprise Catalog of services
 Deploy anywhere
• Support for top cloud providers like Amazon, Digital Ocean, Packet …
• Broad community of users moving to cloud-native microservices

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Learn More About Portworx
 Visit www.portworx.com for
white papers, analyst reports,
videos
 Download PX-Developer on
GitHub
 Request a demo and free trial of
PX-Enterprise at
info@portworx.com