Pure Storage Cloud Block Store on Microsoft Azure Marketplace

Pure Storage, Inc. announced the availability of Pure Cloud Block Store on Microsoft Azure Marketplace.

With a common dataplane across multicloud environments, customers can move to the cloud on their terms, allowing for seamless application portability to the cloud or the ability to complement on-premises workloads with Dev/Test, DR and HA solutions in cloud.

While enterprises increasingly desire cloud attributes including simplicity of management, pay-as-you-go consumption, and non-disruptive upgrades, they know the best way to achieve their goals is to implement a hybrid approach to IT. According to predictions from IDC, by the end of this year, more than 90% of enterprises worldwide will meet their infrastructure needs with a mix of on-premises/dedicated private clouds, several public clouds, and legacy platforms.

“Pure has been delivering the cloud experience from day one. With Pure Cloud Block Store on Azure, we are continuing to bridge the cloud divide, helping customers achieve the reliability, resilience, performance, and operational simplicity they expect from Pure wherever their data lives,” said Dan Kogan, VP, product, FlashArray.

“Pure and Microsoft Azure share the belief that our customers deserve a seamless experience whether their infrastructure is on-premises, hybrid, multicloud, or at the edge. Pure Cloud Block Store on Azure, which is built with unique Azure capabilities including shared disks and Ultra Disk Storage, provides a comprehensive HA and performant solution. We are pleased to welcome Pure Cloud Block Store to the Azure Marketplace to bring increased data mobility and protection to our joint customers.” said Aung Oo, partner director management, Microsoft Azure Storage.

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Pure Cloud Block Store provides data mobility across on-premises and cloud environments with a consistent experience, regardless of where data lives – on premises, cloud, hybrid cloud, or multicloud.

The company works collaboratively with Microsoft Corp. to support joint customers on their cloud journey by addressing their diverse needs, including:

• Common dataplane across environments: Because Pure Cloud Block Store runs the same OS as FlashArray systems, customers are able to get the benefits of an enterprise-grade storage platform including data reduction, built-in snapshots, thin provisioning, and HA, natively in the cloud and with the added benefit of data mobility between clouds. It delivers APIs and automation between on-premises and cloud, enabling developers to build once and deploy across their hybrid cloud.

FlashArray//X

• Resilience and reliability: Pure Cloud Block Store enhances cloud storage reliability by ensuring that applications and data are resilient to single points of failure. Also announced, the Pure Validated Design for SQL Server Business Resilience delivers BC for mission critical SQL Server databases running on premises and enables DR in the cloud by leveraging the Pure Cloud Block Store for Microsoft Azure as a HA target. With SQL Server and the combination of FlashArray//X, FlashArray//C, and Pure Cloud Block Store, customers can achieve high levels of application availability, ensuring BC for their SQL Server workloads.

• Cost efficiency: Cloud-native customers can see cost savings through the company’s reduction capabilities and via reduced management overhead typically associated with cloud-native block storage by eliminating the need to manage IO/s, bandwidth and capacity of individual volumes. Its data efficiency means customers can buy less capacity in the cloud without compromising on enterprise storage features and flexibility.

The firm‘s Subscription Services include the Evergreen program and unified subscription, which delivers on-premises solutions and Cloud Block Store under a single consumption experience. The company‘s unified subscription is an enterprise utility that delivers flexibility for storage consumption.

Resources:
Pure Storage blog
Cloud Block Store on the Pure Storage
Cloud Block Store on Azure Marketplace
Pure Validated Design for Microsoft SQL Server