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Pure Storage Integrates VMs and Containers via KubeVirt

Pure Storage Japan announced that its data management platform for container environments, Portworx, will now support virtual machines (VMs). This feature will be implemented in the new version, Portworx Enterprise 3.3, which will be available in May 2025, and was announced at KubeCon + CloudNativeCon Europe 2025, held in London in April 2025. Venkat Ramakrishnan, vice president and general manager of Portworx products at Pure Storage, USA, said that the background to this is that "user companies are under pressure to migrate to new destinations due to the acquisition of VMware by Broadcom, which has led to rising license costs." In the transition from VMware, there has also been a shift to other hypervisors such as Nutanix, but it is said that there is also a growing trend to take…