Additional industry first innovations in the Pure Storage
platform provide financial flexibility through Universal Credits
and a new VM assessment to optimize VMware resources
SANTA
CLARA, Calif. and LONDON, Sept. 24,
2024 /PRNewswire/ -- Pure Storage® (NYSE:PSTG), the
IT pioneer that delivers the world's most advanced data storage
technologies and services, today announced new innovations to the
Pure Storage platform, including Real-time Enterprise File, dynamic
file services that change, adapt and reconfigure in real-time to
meet the fast paced demands of modern applications. Additional new
innovations include a virtual machine (VM) assessment and
industry-first Universal Credits, extending Pure Storage's
as-a-Service (STaaS) leadership.
The Pure Storage platform delivers agility and risk reduction to
organizations with a simple, consistent storage platform and
subscription based services for the broadest set of use cases
across on-premises, public cloud, and hosted environments. With
continuous, non-disruptive upgrades and an industry leading
as-a-service experience, the Pure Storage platform adapts
seamlessly to the evolving needs of modern enterprises.
File Services Reimagined: Real-time Enterprise File
In
today's fast paced business environment, data-intensive
applications demand more than legacy file storage can offer.
Traditional file storage, burdened by outdated, rigid architectures
and multiple layers of protocol and management complexity, is
extremely hard to update and change, making it impossible to meet
the evolving needs of modern workloads like AI, analytics and VDI.
Delivered via the Pure Storage platform, Real-time Enterprise File
is purpose-built to address the limitations of traditional file
storage, enabling customers to respond quickly and manage
application demands in real-time. Organizations using Real-time
Enterprise File deliver better outcomes at a lower total cost of
ownership, while meeting the dynamic demands of the enterprise.
Pure's latest innovations provide:
- Real time agility: Legacy file storage is
inflexible, forcing organizations into pre-configured silos that
can't be used to their maximum capacity nor adjust to dynamic
application requirements. Pure allows customers to adjust in real
time to dynamic business changes with:
- Agility across all storage resources: Real-time
Enterprise File delivers agility to the business through global
storage pools which allow organizations to maximize all of their
storage resources, without the complexity of planning and creating
storage reservations or allocations for each array. In addition,
through Pure Fusion™, fleet-wide operations are automated,
including workload placement and rebalancing of any combination of
arrays across the organization's entire Pure Storage data storage
estate.
- Zero-Move Tiering: With legacy files, if an
application requires access to data with a different performance
profile, it forces IT to do time consuming physical data movement
to the array that meets the performance needs. Real-time Enterprise
File delivers industry-first zero move tiering which enables
IT to deliver the required performance level without the need to
physically move data between tiers.
- Truly non-disruptive: Legacy systems require data
movement, significant pre-planning and end user downtime for every
upgrade and reconfiguration within the system. Only Pure offers
true non-disruptive upgrades (NDU) across its entire platform. This
ensures in-place upgrades for both hardware and software, without
the need for data migration or any data loss, no matter what the
upgrade is.
- Expanded support for cost-sensitive workloads: Now
introducing the new FlashBlade//S100, an AI-ready platform with
GPUDirect support which brings progressive pricing across all price
points and markets. It features a scale-out architecture designed
for entry-level enterprise use cases, including AI, compliance,
content sharing, image repositories, IoT, Edge, and ROBO
applications.
- Simplicity, architected from the ground up: Patchworking
new capabilities into legacy storage architectures creates
significant complexity and time consuming management. For example,
individual workloads need to be configured for QoS. The Pure
Storage platform redefines management simplicity with:
- Cloud-like operations: Through the cloud-like
operations of the Pure Storage platform, Real-time Enterprise File
delivers radical levels of ease to IT. Data can be simply placed,
assigned an SLA enabling storage to expand and auto adjust to data
growth. It also ensures services such as QoS and multiprotocol
configuration are automatically taken care of.
- Natural language for files: Pure Storage continues
to simplify management with AI Copilot for File, an
industry-first natural language model, that further builds on our
lead in innovation by empowering IT generalists, DevOps teams, and
seasoned storage practitioners alike to address file-related issues
and eliminate IT bottlenecks.
- The power of Storage as a Service - brought to file:
Only Pure delivers true storage-as-a-service for file through
Evergreen//One, backed by the industry's highest number of
concurrent SLAs.
Other new future-proof innovations announced in the Pure Storage
platform include:
Optimize Virtualization Operations with the new Virtual Machines
(VM) Assessment
As virtualization environments face
increasing uncertainty and disruption, the Pure Storage platform
offers an industry-first VM Assessment to help IT decision makers
on modernizing their virtualization operations for critical
workloads. Unique to our industry, VM Assessment offers performance
monitoring, enhanced scenario planning, and rightsizing
recommendations through Pure1®. Admins can now start
identifying opportunities to optimize their VM resources, while
gaining deep insights into their utilization and potential
subscription impacts. VM Assessment is available to all customers
free of charge with their Pure1 subscription.
Industry First Universal Credits Delivers Financial
Flexibility
Further extending its leadership in STaaS, Pure
Storage introduces the industry's first Universal Credits, offering
unprecedented flexibility. Universal Credits allow businesses to
purchase a pool of credits and use them across various services
without being locked into specific subscriptions, while providing
predictable billing. Customers can now leverage volume discounts by
purchasing Universal Credits, applying them across various
Evergreen//One™, Pure Cloud Block Store™ and Portworx®
services.
Executive Insight
"Once again Pure is dramatically
raising the bar for a modern data storage platform. For years,
outdated and rigid legacy file storage has done customers a huge
disservice by holding them back and forcing them towards
frequent technology refresh cycles. Through the Pure Storage
platform, Real-time Enterprise File along with the new VM
assessment and Universal Credits empowers our customers to navigate
today's fast-moving, complex business environment with confidence."
— Ajay Singh, Chief Product
Officer, Pure Storage
"Storage modernization is a critical imperative for the
data-driven modern business. A simplified storage environment
easily accessed and managed is a must have for organizations
measured by time to market. Pure Storage's highly differentiated
platform has changed customers' perception of what a modern storage
infrastructure can deliver. The introduction of Real-time
Enterprise File and the extension of its STaaS capabilities further
solidifies Pure's leadership in the market." — Matt Kimball, VP & Principal Analyst, Moor
Insights & Strategy.
Learn More:
- Universal Credits are available now
- FlashBlade//S100, FlashBlade Zero Move Tiering and VM
Assessment will be generally available in FY25 Q4
- Blog: Leave Legacy Behind with the Pure Storage
Platform
About Pure Storage
Pure Storage (NYSE: PSTG) delivers
the industry's most advanced data storage platform to store,
manage, and protect the world's data at any scale. With Pure
Storage, organizations have ultimate simplicity and flexibility,
saving time, money, and energy. From AI to archive, Pure Storage
delivers a cloud experience with one unified Storage as-a-Service
platform across on premises, cloud, and hosted environments. Our
platform is built on our Evergreen® architecture that
evolves with your business – always getting newer and better with
zero planned downtime, guaranteed. Our customers are actively
increasing their capacity and processing power while significantly
reducing their carbon and energy footprint. It's easy to fall in
love with Pure Storage, as evidenced by the highest Net Promoter
Score in the industry. For more information,
visit www.purestorage.com.
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are trademarks or registered trademarks of Pure Storage Inc. in the
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respective owners.
Analyst Recognition:
Leader in the 2024 Gartner Magic
Quadrant for Primary Storage Platforms
Leader in the 2023 Gartner Magic Quadrant for Distributed File
Systems & Object Storage
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