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Everpure + Ford Motor Company

Increasing Developer Velocity with Portworx at Ford Motor Company

When Ford wanted to increase developer productivity and simplify storage management for cloud-native applications, Portworx by Everpure won hands down.

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Accelerate Core Applications Enable Multicloud
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Automotive
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Global

One of the world's leading vehicle manufacturers, Ford Motor Company accelerates innovation using software-driven business models. Ford underpins its stateful data running on Kubernetes with high-performance storage, data protection, and disaster recovery. Using Portworx by Everpure as the cornerstone of its application development stack, Ford consistently simplifies persistent storage for cloud-native applications, reducing the cognitive load on developers so they can innovate faster.

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Challenges

Ford Motor Company needed persistent storage management in its Kubernetes environment to ensure the business continuity of its stateful cloud native applications. This put a burden on developers that impeded productivity, forcing them to spend extra cycles coding for storage operations. To meet the demand for faster innovation, the company needed to accelerate developer velocity while maintaining strict quality and cost control.

“At the end of the day, what we are talking about is enablement of developers and velocity of delivering services at a particular price point and at a particular quality. . . There's hardly anything we can do in Kubernetes without having persistent storage and that is what has brought us together with Portworx.”

Satish Puranam

Technical Lead & Manager - Cloud, Ford Motor Company

Results

With Portworx, developers can focus on building value in the Kubernetes environment without worrying about storage. Portworx takes care of managing persistent storage, supporting business continuity and accelerating time-to-value while protecting Ford’s reputation for quality. Portworx modernizes the application stack, improving developer experience and increasing productivity.

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