MOUNTAIN VIEW, Calif.,
May 4, 2021 /PRNewswire/
-- Portworx® by Pure Storage® (NYSE:
PSTG), the most complete Kubernetes Data Services Platform, today
released findings from its annual Kubernetes Adoption
Survey1. The survey assesses the mass adoption and
evolution of Kubernetes usage among enterprise users in the last 12
months, in addition to the impact of the pandemic on IT users'
attitudes towards their jobs. Supported by an overwhelming response
from IT users, the findings suggest that despite budget cuts,
enterprises are rapidly turning to Kubernetes to drive faster
business results and, overall, reported happier, well-paid IT
employees.
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For over a year, the pandemic has challenged businesses
everywhere to experiment and innovate their offerings to cater to
evolving customer demands for convenience and simplicity, as well
as supporting employees in the new world of remote work. In the
midst of it all, Kubernetes has played a critical role. The latest
annual survey commissioned by Portworx found that 68 percent of IT
professionals said they increased their usage of Kubernetes as a
result of the pandemic, primarily to accelerate their deployment of
new applications and increase their use of automation - both of
which are critical to meeting customers and employees where they
are today. What's more, despite added working pressures, most IT
professionals (52 percent) enjoyed their jobs more than they did
before, with those most familiar with Kubernetes tending to earn
higher salaries.
Key highlights from the annual Kubernetes Adoption Survey
include:
- The Role of Kubernetes is Expanding: Enterprises are
increasingly leveraging Kubernetes to develop and test artificial
intelligence models, and to manage and automate storage, network,
and compute infrastructure. Nearly 90 percent of IT professionals
expect Kubernetes to play a larger role in the management of their
infrastructure over the next 2-3 years.
- Speed of Deployment is King: Amid the pandemic,
businesses had to quickly adapt to a fast-changing world by rolling
out new apps to better serve customers, building algorithms to
reorganize disrupted supply chains, and more. Almost 75 percent of
IT professionals confirmed the top benefit of adopting Kubernetes
is the ability to deploy new apps more quickly, followed by
supporting program areas that need to evolve (48 percent),
supporting changes in business strategy (45 percent), and helping
increase revenue or profits (44 percent).
- Kubernetes is a Cost-Saver: 2020 created financial
uncertainty for many businesses, and minimizing wasted expenditure
became a priority. Almost half (46 percent) of respondents said
they increased their use of Kubernetes last year to help reduce IT
costs. Of those, 27 percent expected to reduce IT costs by 31
percent or more.
- Kubernetes Knowledge Impacts Salary: IT staff who are
the most familiar with Kubernetes tend to earn higher salaries than
those who are less familiar. Sixty-four percent who were "very
knowledgeable" about their company's Kubernetes use reported their
annual gross income at between $100,000 and $250,000, versus 59 percent who said they were
"knowledgeable" and 50 percent who were "somewhat
knowledgeable."
"Kubernetes adoption is continuing to grow as an essential
strategy to capitalize on modern data and applications. With
its easy scalability, portability, and fast iteration cycle, the
technology is the most effective way to enable rapid developments
and innovation." -- Murli Thirumale,
VP, GM Cloud Native Business Unit, Pure Storage.
For more insights on the current state of Kubernetes and what
the future holds for the technology, download the full Portworx by
Pure Storage 2021 Kubernetes Adoption Survey Report here.
About Pure Storage
Pure Storage (NYSE: PSTG) gives
technologists their time back. Pure delivers a modern data
experience that empowers organizations to run their operations as a
true, automated, storage as-a-service model seamlessly across
multiple clouds. One of the fastest-growing enterprise IT companies
in history, Pure helps customers put data to use while reducing the
complexity and expense of managing the infrastructure behind it.
And with a certified customer satisfaction score in the top one
percent of B2B companies, Pure's ever-expanding list of customers
are among the happiest in the world. For more information,
visit www.purestorage.com.
About Portworx by Pure Storage
Portworx, acquired by
Pure Storage in October 2020, is the
container storage company enterprises rely on to manage mission
critical data services in containers. By enabling data
availability, data security, backup and disaster recovery for
Kubernetes-based applications running on-prem or across clouds,
Portworx has helped dozens of Global 2000 companies such as
Carrefour, Comcast, GE Digital, Lufthansa, T-Mobile, and SAIC run
containerized data services in production. Portworx partners with
Amazon, Google, IBM, VMware, and other leading enterprise software
companies to accelerate container adoption. For more information,
visit portworx.com or follow @portwx.
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1 Conducted online by Market Cube on
behalf of Portworx by Pure Storage, this survey was fielded among
500 respondents with significant knowledge of their company's
Kubernetes usage, working full-time in IT roles at companies with
at least 500 employees.
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