Pure Storage Services and Software to Expand Vision of Data Experience

Pure Storage, Inc. unveiled a progression of its vision of modernizing how customers work with data – by modernizing infrastructure, operations, and applications.

Announcements bring infrastructure and applications closer together by enabling cloud-like automation and delivery of storage:

Pure Fusion, a self-service, autonomous storage-as-code platform built for limitless scale, lets customers bring the cloud operating model anywhere and run, operate, and consume traditional storage like a cloud service.
Portworx Data Services, a Database-as-a-Service platform for Kubernetes, lets DevOps engineers deploy a managed, production-grade data service with one click. This gives software developers access to the database applications they need to build on, without needing to become experts.

“Since our founding, Pure has delivered simplicity and reliability at scale – what organizations need more than ever as they increasingly adopt cloud native architectures and modern applications like AI/ML and advanced analytics. Our new software innovations further our goal of making infrastructure invisible to developers, using it as simple as calling an API, and delivering it as a service.” said Charles Giancarlo, chairman and CEO.

The company is meeting the demands of modern business by making data infrastructure fast to deploy, provision, and manage. With Pure, infrastructure is automated, API-driven, and transparent, and application developers are accelerated with access to the integrated and deployment-ready database tools they need.

“IT teams and their consumers have evolved into ‘on demand’ cultures and with the shift to cloud and as-a-Service, speed and agility have become paramount. Storage needs to keep up with end users expectations. This means making the storage itself invisible, allowing users to easily consume services they need and recognize like capacity, copy creation, and recovery,” said Eric Burgener, research VP, enterprise infrastructure practice, IDC

Pure Fusion

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It brings the cloud operating model anywhere with a self-service, autonomous storage environment built for limitless scale that marries the best of enterprise storage with the agility and scalability of the cloud. With on-demand consumption and back-end provisioning, organizations can deliver a scale-out storage model that unifies arrays and optimizes storage pools on the fly. End users will be able to rapidly consume volumes, file systems, and advanced data services like replication without waiting for back-end manual work, making hardware truly invisible. Fusion will allow organizations to scale seamlessly, integrating first with FlashArray//X, FlashArray//C, and Pure Cloud Block Store, with future integrations planned with FlashBlade and Portworx. It, coupled with the firm’s portfolio, will take performance, density, and data availability to new levels.

Portworx Data Services

Portworx Data Services enables DevOps engineers to deploy a managed, production-grade data service on Kubernetes from catalog of options for SQL, NoSQL, search, streaming, and more. It automates day-2 operations, including monitoring, backups, high-availability, DR, migration, auto-scaling, and security. Now, running data services on Kubernetes is simpler than other approaches.

Enhanced automation in Pure1 Management Portal

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New feature innovations in the company’s AI-driven IT operations platform Pure1 Meta deliver a zero tolerance policy for business disruption. Users have the ability to see, in real-time, SLAs 0across their cloud, monitor applications that are being protected against ransomware attacks, and visualize their Portworx container infrastructure from end to end. These enhancements improve data availability and security while fundamentally simplifying IT operations by predicting problems across the infrastructure stack and proactively recommending actions to optimize workloads.