Everpure has expanded its Portworx platform with new capabilities for Red Hat OpenShift users, enabling organisations to manage storage, data protection, and disaster recovery for AI workloads, containers, and virtual machines directly within the OpenShift console.

The update, announced on 12 May 2026, addresses a persistent challenge for enterprises modernising their infrastructure: managing separate platforms for virtual machines and containers as AI and edge workloads scale. The new capabilities aim to simplify Kubernetes operations across cloud, edge, and on-premises environments from a single interface.

What’s new in Portworx for OpenShift

Three capabilities form the core of the release. Portworx Plugin 2.2 for Red Hat OpenShift brings storage and data management into the OpenShift console, with integrated Red Hat Advanced Cluster Management support, giving teams a unified view to monitor and orchestrate disaster recovery for VMs and containers across sites without complex command-line tooling.

Portworx for Edge extends enterprise-grade data management to two-to-five node Kubernetes clusters running at the edge, providing automated data protection and encryption to keep data local and compliant. The third component is AI-ready infrastructure support, with the new capabilities designed to deliver consistent, automated data services across environments at the scale and speed required by modern AI workloads.

“Enterprises shouldn’t have to juggle separate platforms for VMs and containers as they scale existing applications and emerging workloads like AI and edge,” said Greg Muscarella, General Manager, Portworx. “Portworx and Red Hat simplify this challenge by enabling enterprises to manage Portworx storage and disaster recovery capabilities from within the OpenShift UI.”

OpenShift as AI infrastructure backbone

Red Hat’s position is that OpenShift serves as a unified hybrid platform capable of managing any workload across any environment. The integration of Portworx’s data management — covering storage, protection, and disaster recovery — directly into the OpenShift console is intended to help customers accelerate infrastructure modernisation and run AI, containers, and VMs at scale without switching between tools.

“By bringing Portworx’s comprehensive data management directly into the Red Hat OpenShift console, we are providing a unified experience for customers to accelerate their infrastructure modernization and confidently run AI, containers, and VMs at scale,” said Steve Gordon, Senior Director, Product Management, Hybrid Cloud Platforms, Red Hat.

The new capabilities — including Portworx Enterprise 3.6, Portworx Plugin 2.2 for Red Hat OpenShift, and Portworx Backup 2.11 — are available now.