SUSE and Portworx by Pure Storage showcase “the future of tech” at LEAP in Riyadh

Blog by Shady Khattab, CEMEA Enterprise Container Platform Sales Manager, SUSE

I’m thrilled to be at LEAP in Riyadh next week. This incredible congress is at the pulse of latest technology trends and solutions, gathering more than 215.000 visitors and offers the ideal platform for customers to connect with their peers in leading technology companies. Together with our partner Pure Storage, we will showcase our joint solutions—SUSE Rancher Prime and Portworx by Pure Storage—highlighting the strength of our close collaboration. By joining forces, we help enterprises tackle the challenges of modernizing their infrastructure. Our joint solutions support customers with their storage and data challenges when running containers at scale.

This partnership between SUSE and Portworx by Pure Storage is a perfect match, grounded in our shared commitment to openness and flexibility in the world of open-source products. Both companies embrace the principles of choice and transparency, which are fundamental to delivering superior value to our customers.

With our 100% open-source solutions, customers enjoy a clear TCO advantage, backed by recent studies, such as those from Harvard Business School, which analyzed thousands of organizations and highlighted the tangible benefits of open-source adoption. Openness enables our customers to retain full control, offering the freedom to choose other vendors without being locked into proprietary ecosystems.

Moreover, with SUSE Rancher Prime and Portworx by Pure Storage, customers can confidently run the Kubernetes of their choice, empowering them to build and manage hybrid and multi-cloud environments. This ensures a consistent and centralized management experience for Kubernetes clusters—no matter where they are deployed, providing unparalleled flexibility and scalability.

Running Enterprise Workloads on Containers at Scale with Trust

Portworx offers a holistic container data management platform, in simpler terms it provides software defined storage for Kubernetes, including data protection. Thus Portworx helps customers automate, protect and unify their modern applications at enterprise scale.

While SUSE Rancher Prime, a Leader in Gartner’s Magic Quadrant for container management, delivers the infrastructure to securely deploy, run, and manage modern workloads anywhere, with centralized authentication, access control, observability, and built-in security across the entire stack. Portworx by Pure Storage  adds a container data management platform to optimize SUSE Rancher Prime performance at scale.

With SUSE Rancher Prime as the container platform and Portworx by Pure Storage as the container data management platform, customer teams see operational efficiency and improved performance across the application lifecycle when running containers at scale. Customers benefit from enterprise-grade business continuity for their SUSE Rancher workloads through high availability and up to zero RPO disaster recovery. The unified storage in Portworx helps developer teams to be more productive. Thus  SUSE Rancher and Portworx by Pure Storage enable enterprises to build on hybrid and multi-cloud environments, providing consistent and centralized management of Kubernetes clusters no matter where they’re located.

Want to know more? We are looking forward to meeting you in Riyadh next week at LEAP. You can find us at booth number Hall 3 Stand D30  at the Riyadh Exhibition and Convention Centre, Malham – Riyadh  at LEAP from February 9 – 12, 2025.

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SUSE Rancher Prime and Portworx by Pure Storage

Learn how SUSE and Portworx by Pure Storage are simplifying containerization and data management for modern enterprises. Running enterprise workloads on containers doesn’t have to be complex. SUSE and Portworx by Pure Storage have joined forces to deliver a comprehensive approach to containerization and data management that ensures security, scalability, and simplicity.

Join our webinar to discover:

• Proven practices for managing Kubernetes clusters efficiently
• How to safeguard data in dynamic, containerized environments
• Seamless workload integration across hybrid and multi-cloud setups

This session is designed for IT leaders looking to modernize their infrastructure without compromising reliability.

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