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	GE Digital's Solution to the Stateful/Stateless Problem for Industrial IoT Portworx

GE Digital's Solution to the Stateful/Stateless Problem for Industrial IoT

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Technology Category	Application Infrastructure & Middleware - Database Management & Storage Infrastructure as a Service (IaaS) - Cloud Storage Services
Applicable Industries	Buildings Construction & Infrastructure
Applicable Functions	Quality Assurance
Use Cases	Construction Management Intelligent Packaging
Services	Cloud Planning, Design & Implementation Services Software Design & Engineering Services
Challenge	GE Digital was faced with the challenge of managing storage in the rapidly evolving container technology ecosystem. The company was using Cloud Foundry, which was effective for stateless applications, but they needed a solution that could handle both stateless and stateful applications. They were looking for a solution that could provide a single infrastructure that would allow them to run both stateless and stateful applications. They also needed a solution that would support encryption and snapshotting out of the box, which are crucial for an industrial company. The challenge was to find a solution that would not only meet these requirements but also be cloud-agnostic and provide a uniform experience for their DevOps teams. Read More
About Customer	GE Digital is a division of General Electric (GE) that provides software and advisory services to industrial companies. The company is building Predix, a world-class, highly secure industrial IoT platform in San Ramon, California. Predix is designed to digitize the industrial internet by leveraging GE's industrial wealth knowledge and domain expertise in areas such as aviation, power, transportation, oil and gas, and lighting. The platform is built to be cloud-agnostic and provides a common interface for platform as a service (PaaS), which includes Cloud Foundry and Mesos. GE Digital's end users interact with one or both of these services to consume Predix, regardless of where it is deployed. Read More
Solution	GE Digital partnered with Portworx to solve their stateful needs in Predix, their industrial IoT platform. Portworx provides a cloud-native storage software that is designed for applications deployed via a container orchestrator such as Kubernetes or DC/OS. It provides a storage layer that is purpose-built for modern applications that are service-oriented, packaged as containers, and meant to be run on cloud-native infrastructure in a distributed manner. Portworx provides an abstraction layer that allows applications to programmatically specify the type of storage resources they want, without needing to know the underlying physical infrastructure or public cloud provider. This solution allows GE Digital to provide a platform that is highly available and can run across the world in all other points of presence, including other Cloud Providers and on-premises. Read More Log in to view content
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Technology Category

Application Infrastructure & Middleware - Database Management & Storage

Infrastructure as a Service (IaaS) - Cloud Storage Services

Applicable Industries

Buildings

Construction & Infrastructure

Applicable Functions

Quality Assurance

Use Cases

Construction Management

Intelligent Packaging

Services

Cloud Planning, Design & Implementation Services

Software Design & Engineering Services

Challenge

GE Digital was faced with the challenge of managing storage in the rapidly evolving container technology ecosystem. The company was using Cloud Foundry, which was effective for stateless applications, but they needed a solution that could handle both stateless and stateful applications. They were looking for a solution that could provide a single infrastructure that would allow them to run both stateless and stateful applications. They also needed a solution that would support encryption and snapshotting out of the box, which are crucial for an industrial company. The challenge was to find a solution that would not only meet these requirements but also be cloud-agnostic and provide a uniform experience for their DevOps teams.

About Customer

GE Digital is a division of General Electric (GE) that provides software and advisory services to industrial companies. The company is building Predix, a world-class, highly secure industrial IoT platform in San Ramon, California. Predix is designed to digitize the industrial internet by leveraging GE's industrial wealth knowledge and domain expertise in areas such as aviation, power, transportation, oil and gas, and lighting. The platform is built to be cloud-agnostic and provides a common interface for platform as a service (PaaS), which includes Cloud Foundry and Mesos. GE Digital's end users interact with one or both of these services to consume Predix, regardless of where it is deployed.

Solution

GE Digital partnered with Portworx to solve their stateful needs in Predix, their industrial IoT platform. Portworx provides a cloud-native storage software that is designed for applications deployed via a container orchestrator such as Kubernetes or DC/OS. It provides a storage layer that is purpose-built for modern applications that are service-oriented, packaged as containers, and meant to be run on cloud-native infrastructure in a distributed manner. Portworx provides an abstraction layer that allows applications to programmatically specify the type of storage resources they want, without needing to know the underlying physical infrastructure or public cloud provider. This solution allows GE Digital to provide a platform that is highly available and can run across the world in all other points of presence, including other Cloud Providers and on-premises.

Impact #1	The partnership with Portworx has enabled GE Digital to provide a platform that is highly available and can run across the world in all other points of presence, including other Cloud Providers and on-premises. The solution has also allowed GE Digital to provide a uniform experience for their DevOps teams, regardless of the underlying physical infrastructure or public cloud provider. This has made it easier for their teams to manage their platform as a service and cater to their internal customers. Furthermore, the solution has enabled GE Digital to run multiple types of workloads harmoniously in one cluster, ensuring high availability and durability for business-critical applications.

Impact #1

The partnership with Portworx has enabled GE Digital to provide a platform that is highly available and can run across the world in all other points of presence, including other Cloud Providers and on-premises. The solution has also allowed GE Digital to provide a uniform experience for their DevOps teams, regardless of the underlying physical infrastructure or public cloud provider. This has made it easier for their teams to manage their platform as a service and cater to their internal customers. Furthermore, the solution has enabled GE Digital to run multiple types of workloads harmoniously in one cluster, ensuring high availability and durability for business-critical applications.

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GE Digital's Solution to the Stateful/Stateless Problem for Industrial IoT

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