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Portworx announced the availability of PX-Enterprise 1.4, the most significant new release to-date of its solution for running stateful containers in production.

Updates in 1.4 include 3DSnap, an application consistent snapshot solution for complex Kubernetes applications, as well as a brand new graphical user interface (GUI) for PX-Enterprise optimized for multi-cloud environments. These new capabilities enable customers to store and protect containerized applications, including their mission critical data from a single platform.

"As enterprises transition to the cloud and DevOps, they are accelerating their container initiatives and expanding them to include mission critical data services. Since our first release of PX-Enterprise, we are seeing orders of magnitude increases in both scale and complexity of applications being run in containers. Our customers now require a scalable cloud native storage platform that simplifies their IT infrastructure and operations, protects against cybersecurity threats and future-proofs their infrastructure for a multi-cloud world," said Murli Thirumale, co-founder and CEO of Portworx. "With PX-Enterprise 1.4, we continue to lead with industry-first container data management, backup and security capabilities. Portworx allows enterprises to deploy agile, cost-effective containerized applications that quickly deliver innovative services to their customers at scale."

The latest version of PX-Enterprise adds seven features that enable cloud native storage and management for containerized applications:

- 3DSnap: 3DSnap is the industry's first application consistent backup and restore snapshotting capability that permits enterprises to group volumes together for backup. This enables backup and recovery for complex applications through application consistent snapshots of Kubernetes stateful sets, directly from the Kubernetes command line.

- New PX-Enterprise user interface: An updated version of PX-Enterprise's GUI provides a fast, responsive way to manage multi-cloud container clusters, including a timeline of snapshots for backup and recovery management.

- Kubernetes Per Volume Secrets: Per Volume Secrets enable enterprises to encrypt individual Kubernetes volumes with different keys, a requirement for many multi-tenant environments.

- DC/OS Vault Support: PX-Enterprise 1.4 also adds support for Mesosphere DC/OS Vault so customers can store encryption keys in the Vault service built-in to DC/OS instead of spinning up a separate service.

- Google Cloud Auto Scaling Support for GKE (Google Kubernetes Engine): PX-Enterprise 1.4 enables fully automated management of Google Cloud disks by keeping track of which disks are attached to which GCP instance and automatically attaching them as the GKE cluster scales up.

- CSI Tech Preview: PX-Enterprise 1.4 will have Container Storage Interface (CSI) driver as tech preview so customers can deploy their applications with Kubernetes 1.10 with volume provisioning through CSI.

- License Transfer Functionality: With PX-Enterprise 1.4, customers can transfer a cluster license from one cluster to another cluster of the same size and capability so they can safely decommission an older cluster and migrate the workloads to a newer cluster.

PX-Enterprise 1.4 is now available in preview and will be generally available on May 14