MOUNTAIN VIEW, Calif.,
Feb. 16, 2021 /PRNewswire/ -- Today
Pure Storage (NYSE: PSTG), the IT pioneer that delivers storage
as-a-service in a multi-cloud world, announced enhancements to its
unified storage portfolio, extending its enterprise storage market
leadership by expanding into new markets and verticals. The updates
to the flagship Purity software for FlashBlade and FlashArray
accelerate Windows applications, deliver ransomware protection
across file, block and native cloud-based apps, and make hybrid
storage for both departmental and data center workloads obsolete
with a third generation FlashArray//C all-QLC platform.
The latest updates, delivered through Pure's Evergreen
subscription model, further the company's vision for a Modern Data
Experience™. The key enhancements are:
Comprehensive File Portfolio Redefines Performance and
Simplicity Across Ever-Broadening Use Cases
- Today's news extends FlashBlade's industry leadership with new
native SMB support. This provides simplicity and multi-dimensional
performance for very high throughput and IOPS with low latency to
support multiple workloads simultaneously, files of any size, and
sequential or random I/O access. Customers can accelerate Windows
applications with a rich set of existing data services, including
Replication, File System Rollback, and SafeMode™
Snapshots for rapid ransomware recovery. Validated solutions
include healthcare PACS applications and SQL Server Backup at
speeds higher than 1TB/min for SQL farms that demand fast backup
and recovery.
- FlashBlade's new Cross-Protocol File Security design allows
access control interoperability between SMB and NFS users while
preserving access control lists for both in addition to complying
with federal security mandates.
- FlashArray's scale-up architecture balances performance and
capacity, delivering operational file services for VDI, file
server consolidation, user home directories, and file sharing. File
capabilities in FlashArray enhance the value of inherent features
such as deduplication and compression.
Comprehensive Ransomware Protection and Security across File,
Block, and Cloud-Based Apps
- FlashBlade and FlashArray are now both strengthened by SafeMode
snapshots, delivering a complete portfolio of protection tools to
ensure data is always safe and recoverable in seconds. Immutable
snapshots and Policy-based Retention protect companies against the
risk of lost revenues, ransom payments, and brand damage associated
with ransomware attacks.
- FlashBlade, the industry-defining Unified Fast File and Object
(UFFO) platform, provides enhanced object security with S3 simple
user policies, enabling access control at the user level. Granular,
user-level performance monitoring meets a critical requirement for
real-time visibility into the most active users and unified
APIs/SDK improves the automation experience across FlashBlade,
FlashArray, and Pure1® with unified REST APIs and Python
SDK.
Improved Disaster Recovery with ActiveCluster over Fibre
Channel: ActiveCluster™ delivers stretch clustering solutions
for critical applications over any fabric. ActiveCluster is
integrated with Pure1 Cloud Mediator, which removes the need to
manage a cumbersome third-site witness and enables a third recovery
site to be added anywhere in the world.
Breakthrough Tier 1 Application Performance: As the first
to market with NVMe over Fabrics, Pure continues to accelerate its
market leadership as it delivers an all-NVMe architecture for
Flash, Direct Memory Modules, replication, and now support for both
NVMe over Fibre Channel and Ethernet. Support for NVMe can
reduce application latency by up to 50% by reducing latencies to
hundreds of microseconds.
Third-Generation of FlashArray//C Makes Hybrid Storage
Obsolete: The new releases of FlashArray//C40 and
FlashArray//C60 demonstrate Pure's rapid pace of innovation and
extend a flash leadership story that is still unmatched in the
industry. While other vendors struggle to bring QLC to market,
FlashArray//C can now replace legacy disks in deployments of all
sizes, ranging from departmental to data center consolidation.
"Pure is named a leader in the recent Gartner Magic Quadrant for
Primary Storage Arrays and positioned highest and farthest in both
vectors because we are chipping away at the complexity baked
into legacy storage that is simply not designed for the digital
age. Our vision for a Modern Data Experience empowers organizations
to innovate by providing a dynamic, cloud-based storage experience
that is flexible, on-demand, and delivered as code." --
Ajay Singh, Chief Product Officer,
Pure Storage
Long-Standing Pure Portfolio Customer: Royal Bank of
Canada
"Pure is always one step ahead of the market and the latest
updates to the Purity software across FlashBlade and FlashArray
show that we've made the right choice for our business. With Pure,
we have been able to achieve 100% uptime in our environment, which
is critical to our banking operations." -- Antonio Puccio, Director of SAN Storage, Royal
Bank of Canada
Only Pure's subscription services come ready with all-inclusive
licensing, allowing customers to adopt new innovations without
disruption, downtime, or the requirement to re-buy capacity. As
part of the Evergreen Storage subscription model, these new
features require no additional licenses or support costs and ensure
zero added complexity.
Today Pure also announced file replication capabilities on
FlashArray with Komprise.
Availability:
The new features in Purity for FlashArray are available
immediately and in Q1 for Purity for FlashBlade.
More information on today's news:
- Partner Quote Sheet
- Blog: Accelerating the Global Move to Digital Business
- Blog: Leap Forward with Purity//FA 6.1
- Blog: The Neapolitan Ice Cream of File and Object Storage
- Technical Brief: Top 10 Reasons for UFFO
About Pure Storage
Pure Storage (NYSE: PSTG) gives technologists their time back.
Pure delivers a modern data experience that empowers organizations
to run their operations as a true, automated, storage as-a-service
model seamlessly across multiple clouds. One of the fastest-growing
enterprise IT companies in history, Pure helps customers put data
to use while reducing the complexity and expense of managing the
infrastructure behind it. And with a certified customer
satisfaction score in the top one percent of B2B companies, Pure's
ever-expanding list of customers are among the happiest in
the world. For more information, visit www.purestorage.com.
Analyst Recognition: Pure Storage has been named a
Leader in the 2020 Gartner Magic Quadrant for Primary Storage
Arrays.
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