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Portworx's Bookings Double in the First Half of 2019, Customer Count Climbs to 120 with 45 Global 2000 or Government AccountsLOS ALTOS, Calif., Sept. 5, 2019 /PRNewswire/ -- Portworx, the container storage and data management company modern enterprises trust to manage data in containers, today announced record company momentum, doubling bookings in the first half of the year compared to the same period last year with thirteen transactions valued at over $100,000. This rapid growth is a testament to increasing industry demand to solve the hard, non-negotiable business requirements enterprises face while running data services in containers such as multi-cloud operations, disaster recovery and data security. Portworx's growth comes from new customers, as well as expanded relationships with existing Global 2000 and government customers, which now number forty-five. This success in the enterprise showcases production adoption of data services at scale by some of the largest customers in the world. Portworx is also announcing today that Esri, the global market leader in Geographic Information Systems, has selected the Portworx Enterprise Data Platform to power its ArcGIS Analytics for IoT SaaS offering. Digital transformation in the enterprise is increasingly driven by technologies like containers and Kubernetes. Together, these technologies help teams quickly build better software, rapidly innovate and deploy new applications anywhere. However, Kubernetes alone was not designed to deliver core enterprise storage and data management capabilities like data security, data protection, backup and recovery, SLA management, and compliance necessary to run a majority of enterprise applications. Unless Kubernetes can be augmented to meet the requirements of these important applications, enterprise's digital transformation will be incomplete. Portworx addresses these crucial challenges so that enterprises can fully achieve their digital transformation goals. "Portworx's momentum reinforces the fact that companies deploying containers need storage and data orchestration in addition to Kubernetes container orchestration," said Murli Thirumale, CEO and co-founder, Portworx. "Portworx was built to solve the hard data management problems for applications running on Kubernetes and allow rapid and reliable deployment of containerized enterprise applications. Customers and partners are recognizing Portworx leadership and are rapidly deploying the Portworx data platform as an integral part of their enterprise container stack." In the first half of the year, Portworx completed 77 sales transactions, including 13 valued at over $100,000, resulting in a doubling of booking from the first half of 2018 to the first half of 2019. Twenty-seven percent of these transactions were additional license purchases from existing customers such as SAIC, China's largest auto maufacturer, demonstrating the significant growth potential for Portworx's land and expand model as happy customers purchase additional Portworx Enterprise licenses as their Kubernetes environments grow. Portworx also continues to build out the Portworx Enterprise platform in response to the timely needs of their customers. This year, Portworx expanded the capabilities of Portworx Enterprise to become the first container-native storage and data management platform to offer one click data backup and recovery for stateful applications running on Kubernetes, a non-negotiable requirement of critical enterprise applications. Today's news follows more than a year of continued momentum and growth for Portworx, including:
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