Portworx Backup is a comprehensive data protection solution designed specifically for Kubernetes environments, ensuring the security and availability of persistent data across on-premises and cloud infrastructures. With an intuitive point-and-click interface, it offers centralized management of backup and restore operations, robust data security features—including role-based access control , ransomware protection, and encryption—and supports both in-transit and at-rest data security. Additionally, Portworx Backup provides a unified platform to manage backups for containers and virtual machines running on containers, facilitating seamless data protection and recovery processes. Key Features and Functionality: - Application-Aware and Granular Backup and Restore: Ensures full protection by capturing all application data, configurations, and objects, allowing for container-granular restores. - Centralized Data Protection and Migration: Offers enterprise-level control with centralized backup management across hybrid and multi-cloud environments, providing actionable dashboards for backup and restore health, and facilitating easy application migrations. - Enterprise-Grade Data Security: Implements sophisticated RBAC, delete protection, immutability for ransomware defense, and supports the 3-2-1 backup rule to ensure data availability and integrity. - Self-Service Interface: Empowers developers with a user-friendly platform to set backup policies, perform restores, and manage data protection tasks independently. Primary Value and Problem Solved: Portworx Backup addresses the critical need for reliable and efficient data protection in Kubernetes environments. By providing application-aware, granular backup and restore capabilities, it ensures that organizations can recover applications swiftly and accurately, minimizing downtime and data loss. Its centralized management and robust security features offer enterprises the confidence that their data is protected against threats, including ransomware, and that they can maintain business continuity across diverse and complex infrastructures.