I like that you have a small dedicated file system that is fast and resilient for containerized workloads. If I containerize a database server, I know that not only is Portworx providing a persistent and resilient storage backend, but it also meets the database's IOPS requirements, in a containerized environment.
It competes with Rancher's Longhorn.
I would like to see a more native mapping to mainframe-type systems. At some point, the older dinosaur mainframes will either be phased out of the industry, or the mainframes will be built to at least modern standards.
Portworx Enterprise has exceptional stability.
The scalability is outstanding.
It's a team of five that deal with anything that's on our Kubernetes environment. I am one of the five, even though I'm a director, I still am an engineer by trade, and I'm certified in all three clouds right now.
It would be our traditional engineers. We just up-skill them to be cloud-ready and cloud-native. They deal with a whole new type of infrastructure.
The initial setup is straightforward and simple. You couldn't have asked for a more ideal situation. It was as simple as entering your host key and receiving your license. You're all set to go from there. It's plug and play, in any Kubernetes environment.
I'm not sure how the licensing was broken out, but I don't think our offering of the Portworx was more than USD $20,000.
We have no issues with the price. They prove their savings. They will talk to you about what you currently have and then they will break out what that cost is. And then they will come back and say, here's what our cost is. They show value in their product.
Portworx. We haven't done anything. We are licensed for Portworx, but we haven't implemented it and incorporated it into our use case scenario. However, we will use Portworx with our Kubernetes cluster. Some of us use Portworx on a personal level, which is their lighter version of Portworx, and it's amazing.
Pure, is an amazing company. That company has kept its word. I have other businesses that I talk to that leverage them, and we all feel the same way. Pure came into the industry and said, I'm going to answer your questions and I'm going to address your complaints. And they did.
I would rate Portworx Enterprise a ten out of ten.
What was included with the the 20k price point? Was it based on nodes in a k8s cluster and that was your yearly price? This price is simply for the management overlay and not necessarily any physical storage devices. Correct?