MOUNTAIN VIEW, Calif.,
March 3, 2021 /PRNewswire/
-- Today Pure Storage® (NYSE: PSTG), the IT pioneer
that delivers storage as a service in a multi-cloud world, and
Equinix, Inc. (Nasdaq: EQIX), the world's digital
infrastructure company™, announced Pure Storage on Equinix Metal, a
Bare Metal as a Service storage offering that delivers a unified,
connected platform for any stage of an organization's cloud
journey.
Enterprises are increasingly moving out of their own data
centers to reduce management complexity and staff burden, and to
increase the agility and efficiency of their IT environments. 57%
of enterprises today have a strategic vision for hybrid
IT1 with less of their data processed in their own data
centers or the cloud. Regardless of where their data lives,
enterprises still need control over their environment and the
flexibility to react to business changes without having to manage
everything on their own.
Pure Storage on Equinix Metal provides an environment in which
physical, dedicated, single tenant servers and high-performance
storage can be provisioned to customers with cloud-like ease and
speed. The solution can eliminate upfront CAPEX investment for
hardware and ongoing stack management by embedding storage and
simple, on-demand procurement of network, storage and compute, with
hosting, deployment, and support of all physical aspects via one
vendor, under one contract. The solution can also lower operational
costs and risks, and allows for more flexible, scalable, as a
service delivery of IT infrastructure, empowering organizations to
only pay for what they use, when they want to use it.
"Enterprises want full control over their environment, but they
don't want to operate their own data centers or be forced to fit
into traditional cloud models - they want a cloud model that fits
their business. By partnering with Equinix, we are eliminating
management complexity and delivering the flexibility and controls
that put organizations in charge of what their technology platforms
can do for them." -- Jack Hogan, VP
of Technology Strategy, Pure Storage
Equinix Metal is an automated, interconnected and secure bare
metal service that applies a developer and API-first mindset to
foundational infrastructure and provides a fully automated way for
digital businesses to access the value of Platform
Equinix® via its leading collection of DevOps and
open-source integrations. The new managed appliance as a service
capability on Equinix Metal, which Equinix introduced today as part
of a series of Equinix Metal product enhancements, is designed to
support a range of solutions including Pure Storage, the first
storage as a service offering announced on Equinix Metal.
"Digital leaders increasingly require proximity to hardware,
software, clouds and networks to create advantage, and Equinix
offers a unique range of places, partners and possibilities to
enable them. Our customers have been asking for a solution that
combines interconnected bare metal with Pure's world-class storage
and the flexibility of an as a Service model. Today we are excited
to announce Pure as our first Storage as a Service partner on
Equinix Metal, available across our 18 global metros." –
Zac Smith, Managing Director,
Equinix Metal.
Pure Storage on Equinix Metal allows businesses to consume
interconnected infrastructure with the control of physical hardware
and the low overhead and developer experience of the cloud, helping
them move faster in today's competitive environment. The new
service supports a full range of use cases, including legacy
on-premises applications, high-volume data-driven applications, and
cloud-native and next-generation applications. Solutions enabled
include:
- Hybrid cloud and Data Recovery as a Service for virtual
environments: Customers can extend, protect, or migrate on
premises, self-managed virtual machine (VM) environments to a
hosted environment powered by FlashArray™, with flexibility and
options for a multi-cloud VM-based environment or a full VM-based
cloud.
- High-performance, near-edge cloud storage: By combining
the FlashBlade® unified fast file and object platform
with Equinix Metal, diverse unstructured data workloads can be
consolidated onto a highly scalable platform with multi-dimensional
performance.
- Hybrid and edge cloud native container storage: With
Portworx®by Pure Storage, customers can amplify their
hybrid- and multi-cloud strategy by deploying a full Kubernetes
environment capable of running mission-critical applications on a
Bare Metal, interconnected platform that is much faster than the
public cloud. Portworx, the leading Kubernetes Storage Platform
according to GigaOm Research, enables customers to deploy, secure,
run, and protect their mission-critical data services as they would
in traditional data centers, but with the full automation and
flexibility provided by Kubernetes.
"The world of data is growing exponentially and should persist
and exist wherever customers need to access it, especially at the
edge. We're now beginning to see a new paradigm in which developers
have the ability to build and deploy infrastructure at software
speeds, and stand up environments anywhere in the world, with the
compute and storage resources they need right at their fingertips."
– Mark Bowker, Senior Analyst,
Enterprise Strategy Group
Pure Storage on Equinix Metal is available in 18 global Equinix
Metal metros. To learn more, visit:
- PureStorage.com/BareMetal
- Metal.Equinix.com
- ESG – Interconnection Amplifies the value of Bare Metal
Deployments
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.
About Equinix
Equinix® (Nasdaq: EQIX)
is the world's digital infrastructure company, enabling digital
leaders to harness a trusted platform to bring together and
interconnect the foundational infrastructure that powers their
success. Equinix enables today's businesses to access all the right
places, partners and possibilities they need to accelerate
advantage. With Equinix, they can scale with agility, speed the
launch of digital services, deliver world-class experiences and
multiply their value.
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Forward-Looking Statements
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contains forward-looking statements that involve risks and
uncertainties. Actual results may differ materially from
expectations discussed in such forward-looking statements. Factors
that might cause such differences include, but are not limited to,
the challenges of acquiring, operating and constructing IBX data
centers and developing, deploying and delivering Equinix products
and solutions, unanticipated costs or difficulties relating to the
integration of companies we have acquired or will acquire into
Equinix; a failure to receive significant revenues from customers
in recently built out or acquired data centers; a failure to
complete any financing arrangements contemplated from time to time;
competition from existing and new competitors; the ability to
generate sufficient cash flow or otherwise obtain funds to repay
new or outstanding indebtedness; the loss or decline in business
from our key customers; risks related to our taxation as a REIT;
and other risks described from time to time in Equinix filings with
the Securities and Exchange Commission. In particular, see recent
Equinix quarterly and annual reports filed with the Securities and
Exchange Commission, copies of which are available upon request
from Equinix. Equinix does not assume any obligation to update the
forward-looking information contained in this press release.
1 451research Voice of the
Enterprise: Cloud, Hosting and Managed Services, Organizational
Dynamics survey,Q2 2020
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