Case Study: New Context achieves secure, scalable migration to containers and persistent storage with Portworx

New Context Securely Moves Enterprises Over to Containers and Microservices with Portworx

New Context, a lean security consulting firm that helps enterprises move to containers and microservices, faced the common enterprise challenge of running stateful services and databases on container platforms without refactoring applications. Container orchestration (DC/OS/Marathon) offered automation for stateless workloads but limited support for persistent storage; existing solutions like REX-Ray were fragile, imposed one-task limits, required manual volume provisioning, and created failover and scaling problems. To address this, New Context turned to Portworx, using Portworx Enterprise for cloud-native storage and data management.

Portworx integrated with Mesosphere DC/OS to deliver a persistent, scalable storage layer that supports in-line volume specification, shared volumes, and faster failover without waiting for EBS dismounts. By eliminating manual volume requests, removing one-task constraints, and enabling volumes to be mounted across tasks, Portworx allowed New Context’s clients to run databases and other stateful services in containers without extensive rewrites, improving automation, availability, and operational agility—outcomes that kept New Context’s enterprise customers satisfied.

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Danny Purcell

Senior DevOps Engineer