Pure Storage Expands Evergreen Storage Service

Pure Storage, Inc. announced the expansion of its Evergreen Storage Service (ES2) to provide customers with a unified subscription model across hybrid environments.

This allows organizations to leverage company’s storage-as-a-service model on-premises, hosted and in the cloud, without the need to manage multiple subscriptions or purchase separate or overlapping capacity.

Additionally, Pure announced ES2 for backup data, architected to modernize data protection environments with a flash-to-flash-to cloud architecture. Pure’s ES2 provides storage as-a-service for block, file, object, and backup data.

Organizations must be able to leverage all of the infrastructure tools at their disposal to differentiate in competitive, data-driven market. For many, this means aligning application workloads with the most effective cloud infrastructure and the ability to glean value from data regardless of where that data lives. Further enabling mobility between on-premises, co-located or hosted, and public cloud environments, an unified ES2 subscription allows customers to simply move all or any portion of their pay-per-use block storage capacity between environments without adjustments to their contract.

“The move to the cloud requires a level of flexibility that traditional vendors aren’t ready to provide, and Pure is focused on leading the market with an approach that doesn’t lock IT investment in capital expenditures that only serve on-premises architectures,” said Robson Grieve, CMO, Pure. “Now, Pure customers can stop purchasing CAPEX immediately with an on-premises ES2 subscription and gain the flexibility of true OPEX, pay-per-use consumption. Then, over time – with a concrete plan and strategy – organizations can move portions of that subscription to the cloud safely and easily, without any additional cost from Pure.“

Pure’s unified hybrid cloud storage as-a-service makes moves to the cloud easier, faster, and less risky by providing an integrated set of tools and APIs under a common subscription model that helps customers deploy storage with more flexibility, less complexity and less cost. This allows customers to begin their hybrid journey anywhere on the spectrum and move their data in any direction without additional resources.

Additionally, it gives users the power to deploy cloud infrastructure to reduce cost and increase agility, as well as test new configurations before full deployment by moving data without the hassle of new contracts or subscriptions.

“For Pure customers, this offering completes the hybrid cloud picture. With Cloud Block Store, Pure is bringing enterprise functionality to the public cloud. With ES2 on-premises, Pure brought the public cloud experience to traditional storage. Now, unification of the subscription model completes the picture for Pure customers today and tomorrow,” said Eric Burgener, research VP for enterprise infrastructure, IDC Corp. “Offerings like this one deliver a seamless hybrid cloud environment, with a common cloud experience, across all locations.“

ES2 subscribers will soon be able to leverage this unified approach with Pure Cloud Block Store (CBS) an industrial-strength block storage that runs on AWS. Designed to enable mission-critical applications to run in the cloud, it is currently in limited beta and will be available in the second half of 2019. To-date, beta customers have leveraged it across a range of industries – from retail and finance to clinical medicine – to handle a variety of workloads.

Mid America Clinical Laboratories, LLC (MACL) is the largest independent clinical laboratory in Indiana, with more than 30 patient service centers located across the state. It is using CBS to establish a more strategic DR strategy for the cloud.

“CBS simplifies our journey to the cloud. Our goal is to use the cloud as a DR target to reduce our physical footprint without any change in end-user experience for our patients and clinicians,” said Mark Ballard, CIO, MACL. “CBS allows us to easily replicate data from our on-premises to the cloud with Pure’s built-in asynchronous replication technology and simplifies our overall DR strategy with an easy-to-use, cost-optimized solution.“

Pure Adds Data Protection to Storage-as-a-Service Portfolio
Pure’s Evergreen Storage Service (ES2) for modern data protection harnesses the combined power of Pure FlashBlade and Pure ObjectEngine to modernize data protection beyond the disk-to-disk-to-tape approach historically offered with purpose-built backup appliance-based architectures (PBBAs).

Pure’s storage as-a-service solution, which complements third party backup products, combines compelling backup performance and storage efficiency with predictable recovery performance compared to traditional PBBAs. With ES2 for data protection organizations can save money through flexible infrastructure and cloud economics, and maximize data reuse by eliminating the backup data silos that legacy D2D2T approaches create.

Pure1 VM Analytics – Free Trial
Pure Storage also introduced Pure1 VM Analytics, a cloud-based full stack performance analytics tool to help IT storage admins identify the root cause of performance issues. It is available for free trial, with no Pure hardware required.

Customers with large, complex IT infrastructure across thousands of VMs and arrays often encounter application performance issues due to lack of visibility across the stack. With Pure1 VM Analytics, customers have the benefit of visibility across their storage and VMs through a single pane of glass to more quickly identify and address performance bottlenecks.

Organizations that experience storage latency issues with competitive offerings can leverage a free trial of VM Analytics from Pure to gain visibility across VMs, hosts, volumes, data stores and storage, identify bottlenecks with a graphical map of the entire infrastructure, and filter problematic VMs or arrays. VM Analytics supports hybrid cloud infrastructure, which allows customers to use storage and VMs in a private or public cloud.

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