By @SiliconANGLE
Publication Date: 2025-11-12 21:40:00
Enterprises are moving beyond traditional virtualization and toward platforms that deliver greater flexibility while maintaining control. The payoff — and the challenge — is a new era of modern data management.
Blue Cross Blue Shield of Alabama’s Victor Williams and Portworx by Pure Storage’s Venkat Ramakrishnan talk with theCUBE about Kubernetes for data management.
As organizations reassess their virtualization strategies amid industry shifts like the Broadcom-VMware acquisition, many are making pivotal choices about their data management future. Kubernetes is often favored for its speed, and nonprofits are leading the charge with Container Storage Interface adoption, according to Victor Williams (pictured, left), infrastructure engineering consultant at Blue Cross Blue Shield of Alabama.
“As you know, this Kubernetes stuff moves fast and not every vendor is up to the task,” Williams said. “[Red Hat] provided us with the Portworx CSI, and it has basically revolutionized and made our time to market — our container journey — that much better.”
Williams and Venkat Ramakrishnan (right), vice president and general manager at Portworx by Pure Storage Inc., spoke with theCUBE’s Rob Strechay at the KubeCon + CloudNativeCon NA event, during an exclusive broadcast on theCUBE, SiliconANGLE Media’s livestreaming studio. They discussed how companies are accelerating their shift from traditional virtualization to cloud-native architectures and the…
