SHARE Doubling down on the assets it purchased with the acquisition of Portworx Inc. last fall, Pure Storage Inc. today is enabling code-directed storage and data management along with unified visibility and support using the Kubernetes orchestrator for the portable operating platforms called containers. The new features, which are being introduced at the company’s Accelerate 2021 virtual conference starting this week, enable customers to manage storage using Kubernetes on bare-metal server infrastructure, and even on some competitive storage platforms. Pure Storage is best known for its range of flash memory-based hardware and software products, which are a fixture in many data centers and increasingly in the cloud. With the Portworx acquisition, Pure Storage established a new cloud unit that aims to offer a suite of storage services that can be deployed anywhere using Kubernetes.