Pure Storage is negotiating to buy Portworx, the container storage software startup, for $350m-$400m, according to Bloomberg. Neither company is talking.
By acquiring Portworx, Pure would obtain one of the leading container storage storage suppliers and improve its ability to supply storage to enterprises who have adopted Kubernetes.
Last month Blocks and Files asked Pure international CTO Alex McMullan about the company’s intentions towards Portworx. “We’re always looking to explore ways of growing our business,” he replied, “but right now I can’t confirm anything specific.”
Portworx supplies container storage software, which includes backup and restore features. The company was founded in 2015 by CEO Murli Thirumale and CTO Gou Rao, who previously set up deduplication startup Ocarina and sold it to Dell in 2010.
To date, Portworx has bagged $55.5m in three funding rounds, including $27m last year. There are around 100 employees. Sales grew 500 per cent from an undisclosed number in 2016 to 2017 and 100 per cent from 2018 to 2019. The company claims its Q2 2020 performance was a record.
All-flash array vendor Pure supplies on-premises FlashArray block, file and object storage and has a Cloud Block Store offering for public clouds. Pure has supported container storage since 2018 with the Pure Storage Orchestrator (PSO). This receives storage provisioning requests and responds in real time, setting up paths between containers and the back-end Pure arrays.
In April, Pure teamed up with Kasten to integrate its storage arrays with Kasten’s containerised app backup.
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