Pure Storage brings premium enterprise storage
features and cost optimization to Microsoft Azure
SANTA
CLARA, Calif., Aug. 22,
2023 /PRNewswire/ -- Pure Storage® (NYSE:
PSTG), an IT pioneer that delivers advanced data storage technology
and services, today announced an expanded, multi-year strategic
product and go-to-market partnership with Microsoft, that brings
Pure Storage's industry leading storage capabilities to native
Microsoft Azure services by leveraging Azure's new Premium SSD v2
and introducing them to Azure VMware Solution (AVS) in
Preview.
News Highlights:
Now in Preview in 16 Azure regions globally, Pure Cloud Block
Store™ for Azure VMware Solution enables customers to:
- Optimize AVS Costs. With Pure Storage's compression and
deduplication technology, organizations can achieve a high data
reduction ratio on VMware workloads in Azure. Combined with Pure
Storage's ability to decouple block storage costs from compute
costs, customers can achieve sizable savings off their baselines
for storage heavy workloads.
- Take Advantage of Evergreen® Innovation in
Azure. Pure Storage will continue to innovate and leverage the
best technology available in Azure. By integrating Azure's latest
storage solution, Premium SSD v2 disk, in partnership with the
Azure Storage team, Pure Storage is helping mutual customers
achieve up to one-third of the infrastructure cost than Pure's
previous platform without sacrificing performance or capabilities.
These savings can now be extended to AVS customers.
- Accelerate and De-Risk Cloud Migrations. Organizations
can migrate their applications to the cloud without any capability
trade-offs, with the ability to scale storage and compute
independently based on need.
- Leverage Pure Storage Safemode® Ransomware Data
Protection: Pure Storage delivers an always-on, policy-driven
snapshot creation and protection mechanism called Safemode which
provides the ability to leverage Pure Storage snapshots to
instantly restore protected data sets. Customers enjoy and rely on
this protection with their on-premises VMware environments with
FlashArray, and can now also leverage this functionality with Azure
VMware Solution and Pure Cloud Block Store.
- Implement Flexible Disaster Recovery: Organizations can
take advantage of data protection capabilities in Purity such as
zero-RPO ActiveCluster, near-zero RPO ActiveDR, and Purity
CloudSnap™ to ensure the right data is protected in the right way,
to the right place, at the right time.
- Right-Sizing Disaster Recovery: Pure Storage's high
availability and cloud replication capabilities enable disaster
recovery targets on AVS that can be configured with minimal compute
and storage that can scale on-demand. This brings additional cost
savings to the customer's Disaster Recovery strategy.
- Simplify and Unify Storage Strategy. By using the same
data management platform both on-premises and in the cloud,
organizations can more easily track, manage, deploy, and provide
consistent multi-cloud governance for their data.
Executive and Customer Insight:
"This expanded partnership between Pure Storage and Microsoft
creates a significant milestone, ushering in a new age of cloud
migration, and ultimately driving faster, more cost effective
adoption of cloud services. Pure Cloud Block Store™ for Azure
VMware Solution is just the beginning. By optimizing performance
and cost at scale, we look forward to unlocking the number of
mission-critical use cases that we can serve in the coming years."
– Ajay Singh, Chief Product
Officer, Pure Storage
"Our commitment to advancing Microsoft Azure VMware Solution,
and the Microsoft Azure platform more broadly, with best-of-breed
partnerships with vendors like Pure Storage underscores our mission
to meet customers where they are today, particularly in a new world
of business where speed, simplicity, and cost efficiency are
critical. We're thrilled to continue working through the next
phases of our partnership to provide a fast path to the cloud with
Pure Storage." – Jurgen Willis,
Vice President, Azure Specialized Workloads and Storage,
Microsoft
"VMware Cloud provides consistent and modern infrastructure for
all applications, across any cloud, with low TCO. We're pleased
that Pure Storage is joining the Azure VMware Solution partner
ecosystem. With Pure Cloud Block Store for Azure VMware Solution,
existing VMware and Pure Storage on-prem customers can now migrate
and modernize to Azure VMware Solution while preserving their
investments in VMware and Pure Storage processes, skills, and
enterprise capabilities." – Narayan
Bharadwaj, Vice President, Cloud Solutions,
VMware
Industry Significance:
Gartner forecasts that in 2023, worldwide public cloud spending
will grow 20.7% to total $591.8
billion, up from $490.3
billion in 20221. As cloud adoption
accelerates, enterprises aspire to migrate all or portions of their
VMware environments - the majority of which consume block-based
storage - to the cloud but are met by challenges of inconsistent
storage layer management in comparison to their on-premises
deployment, and an unmet need to scale compute and storage
independently to match data growth.
The expanded partnership between Pure Storage and Microsoft
eliminates this barrier. By integrating Pure Cloud Block Store with
Azure VMware Solution, organizations gain access to Pure's robust
feature set, as well as the ability to de-risk deployments while
perfectly right-sizing and scaling storage and compute
independently as workload demands change.
Learn More:
- Pure Storage Blog
- Pure Cloud Block Store™ for Azure VMware Solution
About Pure Storage
Pure Storage (NYSE: PSTG) uncomplicates data storage, forever.
Pure delivers a cloud experience that empowers every organization
to get the most from their data while reducing the complexity and
expense of managing the infrastructure behind it. Pure's commitment
to providing true storage as-a-service gives customers the agility
to meet changing data needs at speed and scale, whether they are
deploying traditional workloads, modern applications, containers,
or more. Pure believes it can make a significant impact in reducing
data center emissions worldwide through its environmental
sustainability efforts, including designing products and solutions
that enable customers to reduce their carbon and energy footprint.
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:
Leader in the 2022 Gartner Magic
Quadrant for Primary Storage
Leader in the 2022 Gartner Magic Quadrant for Distributed File
Systems & Object Storage
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1 Gartner. (2022, October 31). Gartner Forecasts Worldwide Public
Cloud End-user spending to reach nearly $600
billion in 2023.
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