Written by:Wyatt Carlson
Source URL: https://www.sdxcentral.com/articles/news/portworx-raises-20m-enhance-enterprise-offering/2017/04/
Container storage and data services company Portworx announced today that it has raised $20 million in a Series B led by Sapphire Ventures as well as new investors including GE Ventures. Mayfield and other Series A investors also contributed, bringing the company’s total funding to $28.5 million.
Portworx will use funding to expand on the integrations that it already has with container services like Docker and Kubernetes and to build new ones. It also plans to grow its sales and partner network, said Murli Thirumale, CEO and co-founder at Portworx.
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Portworx solves some of the issues developers are faced with when taking containers into production. Specifically, Portworx saves and stores container data by providing container storage. Typically a container’s data will stand outside of the container, Thirumale said.
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