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A Step-by-Step Guide to Deploying DeepSeek R1 with Portworx
Contents Why Portworx for LLMs on Kubernetes Step-by-step guide to deploying DeepSeek with Portworx In this article, we’ll explain why LLMs like DeepSeek R1 are often deployed and scaled on Kubernetes, and why you should deploy LLMs with Portworx for Kubernetes storage. We’ll also include a step-by-step tutorial to deploying DeepSeek R1 on your Kubernetes cluster using vLLM as an inference engine and Portworx for storage management.
5 Game-Changing Trends for 2025: How Kubernetes Platforms are Leading the Way
Kubernetes celebrated its 10th anniversary this year, and it is truly inspiring to see how far the technology has come. From its inception as an open source project from Google to its evolution as the de-facto container orchestration platform on the market today, Kubernetes has seen leaps and bounds in its adoption to handling mission-critical applications in organizations of all sizes, from startups to Fortune 500 companies.
Defining Low Data Loss, Downtime Tolerances in Kubernetes
More than ever, customers both want and expect a seamless experience. They expect a frictionless experience where their applications are highly performant and always available. This is no simple feat, especially with the rise of Kubernetes applications not only just becoming the norm, but becoming the orchestrator of choice to run mission-critical applications.
Introducing Portworx Backup 2.8: Enhanced Control for Enterprise Kubernetes Backups
Managing Kubernetes backups in large organizations can be complex, especially as the scale of clusters and users grows. Portworx Backup 2.8 introduces two new features—Super Admin Role and Cluster Sharing—designed to provide enterprise backup teams with enhanced control, visibility, and security. Let’s dive into these features and the benefits they bring to your backup operations. Super Admin Role The super admin role joins the roster of role-based access control within Portworx Backup.
From T-Mobile to Portworx: A Platform Engineer’s Journey
I had the privilege of contributing to T-Mobile’s digital transformation after I rejoined in 2016. My part was bringing container platform systems to the enterprise—starting with Cloud Foundry and a couple of years later, Kubernetes. Now, I get to take that same technological excellence and bring it to the future of container storage at Portworx by Pure Storage. T-Mobile’s Cloud Native Journey T-Mobile started their cloud native journey with the incredible success of their Cloud Foundry platform.
Execs Invest in Platform Engineering: Here's Why
Development teams are more agile than ever, developing and deploying new applications at the speed required to be competitive in increasingly more saturated markets. One of the ways developers have become more agile is through adopting cloud native technologies like containers and Kubernetes, which offer a lightweight and dynamic infrastructure for faster application development. Although containers are known for being fast and efficient, they are also not simple to manage.
Pure Storage Announces Support for Next-generation VMware vSphere Virtual Volumes
At Explore this week, Pure Storage is excited to share that it will support the next generation of VMware vSphere Virtual Volumes (vVols) when it becomes generally available, which is currently planned to be part of VMware Cloud Foundation 9.
Enterprises to Double Cloud Native Usage by 2029
This year, Kubernetes celebrates its 10th anniversary. What began in 2014 as an open source project at Google has become the gold standard for container orchestration. Organizations across industries are not only adopting Kubernetes, but they are prioritizing their containerized workloads. Gartner®, Inc.
Execs Invest in Platform Engineering: Here's Why
Development teams are more agile than ever, developing and deploying new applications at the speed required to be competitive in increasingly more saturated markets. One of the ways developers have become more agile is through adopting cloud native technologies like containers and Kubernetes, which offer a lightweight and dynamic infrastructure for faster application development. Although containers are known for being fast and efficient, they are also not simple to manage.
Why a Data-resilient Architecture Is Critical for Recovery
Summary Ransomware attacks aren’t the only type of outage event IT teams need to be prepared for, unfortunately. Pure Storage SafeMode Snapshots can help IT teams recover operating systems and data in a timely manner. Ransomware attacks are not the only outage event IT teams need to be prepared for. Having a data resilient architecture is critical to enable Rapid Restore capabilities regardless of the reason for the outage.
Best Practices for Optimizing Kubernetes Storage
Kubernetes has become the de-facto container orchestration tool and continues to dominate the container orchestration landscape. Kubernetes storage is a complex but essential part of any stateful application and ensures data persistence across clusters. Understanding the best practices of Kubernetes storage can positively affect your deployment strategies. This article is a companion to our Kubernetes persistent volume tutorial.
Cloud Native Use to Double by 2029
This year, Kubernetes celebrates its 10th anniversary. What began in 2014 as an open source project at Google has become the gold standard for container orchestration. Organizations across industries are not only adopting Kubernetes, but they are prioritizing their containerized workloads.
Portworx Protects Hundreds of Volumes on Kubernetes for Telecommunications Companies
No matter what your industry, providing an excellent customer experience is a requirement. In fact, PwC reports that one in three consumers will walk away from a brand they love after one bad experience 1. A good customer experience is frictionless and personable, with some of the most important aspects being speed and convenience. Telecommunications companies are no exception. In fact, they are held to more rigorous standards than most.
Take Your Azure VMware Migration Home with a 20% Discount on Pure Storage
Summary Migrating VMware workloads to the cloud can bring many benefits. Pure Block Cloud Store dramatically improves TCO when moving to Azure VMware Solution. Migrating VMware workloads to the cloud can bring many benefits. Pure Block Cloud Store dramatically improves TCO when moving to Azure VMware Solution. In light of VMware’s recent changes under Broadcom, many of you may be reevaluating your VMware workloads and looking for ways to stabilize, evolve, and future-proof your infrastructure.
4 Signs You're Outgrowing Velero
You may have looked into an open-source backup solution like Velero while testing a Kubernetes project on a smaller scale. Velero may have been a suitable solution while the project remained within your team, but if the project is moving into production or broadening in scope, you may discover Velero has several limitations that make it difficult to scale with.
Sign up for the Kubernetes Data Workshop at Kubecon Amsterdam!
The Data Workshop on Kubernetes brought to you by Portworx by Pure Storage is back for another year! We will be live at Kubecon Amsterdam on April 18th from 9am to 5pm with a full day of workshopping with Portworx. In this one-day workshop, you will be led through a number of labs that highlight how to enhance your Kubernetes application deployments with Kubernetes-native container storage, data management, data protection, and even database services.
How Portworx automates data protection on thousands of Kubernetes clusters for a major credit card services company
One of Portworx Backup’s key customers is in the financial services industry, specifically a large credit card services company. Like any company committed to providing excellent customer service, they chose to modernize their business by adopting Kubernetes. They use Kubernetes to modernize their credit card processing experience, so their customers can make transactions faster.
Ensuring application consistency for highly available Kubernetes applications
As usage and adoption for containerized apps grow, so does the importance of properly protecting containerized workloads. Data protection remains a critical part of data management. Organizations need to ensure that their containerized applications running on Kubernetes are highly available, fully backed up, and secure from outages or ransomware threats.
Announcing Portworx Backup 2.3 for simpler backup management and flexible licensing
Portworx Backup 2.3 is now widely available! With the latest release, users can enjoy more ease of use options with backup sharing, as well as more pricing options across the product. These improvements make for easier, more collaborative use of Portworx Backup and pricing flexibility to meet your organization’s unique needs. RBAC Backup sharing Managing all the backups within teams is no simple task.
Fast and Simple Data Protection with Portworx Backup-as-a-Service
We are thrilled to announce the general availability of Portworx Backup-as-a-Service (BaaS)! This brand-new launch makes Day 0 and Day 2 operations simpler than ever with a managed control plane to speed up implementation of Kubernetes data recovery objectives, all while making backup fast, easy, and secure. What is Portworx Backup-as-a-Service? Kubernetes are built to scale.
Guarantee Kubernetes Ransomware Protection with PX-Backup 2.2
In a 2022 ESG survey, over one-third of organizations reported being hit with a ransomware attack at least once a month over the past year, with two-thirds paying out ransoms to get back their data—even though payments do not always guarantee regained data access1. Therefore, it is increasingly important that organizations implement strong defenses to protect against ransomware attacks, especially since victims are frequently revisited by cyber criminals.
What is true disaster recovery for Kubernetes?
Backup is an essential part of Kubernetes data protection management. You need to ensure that your data is properly backed up with a container-granular, app-aware solution, so you’re fully protecting your entire application. Even if something unexpected happens, like your data is corrupted or you’re hit by a ransomware attack, you can trust that a quick restore will completely bring back your applications. Disaster recovery is another key element of Kubernetes data protection.
Announcing General Availability for PX-Backup 2.1.1
January 28, 2022 We are pleased to announce the general availability of the PX-Backup 2.1.1 release. Anyone looking for a fast, easy, and secure way to safeguard their Kubernetes applications can start using PX-Backup 2.1.1 today. Data protection is a key element of managing mission-critical stateful applications for Kubernetes in production.
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