Support for OpenStack Foundation Extended by Pure Storage

Pure Storage, Inc. expanded support for the OpenStack Foundation with a completed OpenStack reference architecture and Mirantis, Inc.‘ Unlocked certification.

Delivering on its pledge to actively participate in the development of the OpenStack codebase, the company will expand its OpenStack Foundation membership and ongoing code contribution. As each new release of OpenStack is developed, the firm adds new features and functionalities. For the latest release, Mitaka, the company supports the new block storage replication feature in Cinder, updated SSL support and an auto-eradication option.

“Pure’s expanded capabilities around OpenStack demonstrate the sophistication and continued evolution of our solutions,” said Matt Kixmoeller, VP, product, Pure Storage. “The growth of our partner ecosystem and increased technical depth have allowed Pure to partner with the OpenStack community to deliver high-value solutions to our customers by making the benefits of cloud attainable.“

Mirantis Unlocked certification validates Pure Storage plug-ins to be integrated directly into the fuel deployment tool, giving users the ability to seamlessly configure Pure as a backend block storage provider during deployment, with no additional deployment after the fact. The company’s arrays can be up and ready to provide block storage as soon as OpenStack is deployed.

“The new Pure Storage plug-in is ideal for customers with high-performance applications. It simplifies deployment of Pure Storage arrays in Mirantis OpenStack, unlocking high storage bandwidth and guaranteed IO/s with OpenStack,” said Boris Renski, CMO and co-founder, Mirantis.

With OpenStack, the company helps reduce the complexity of building a private cloud on open source, allowing customers to benefit from faster deployment of cloud services and increased efficiency. OpenStack architecture also lowers cost of cloud deployments and cost of delivering differeniated cloud services.

“Pure Storage as the central storage solution for our i2 OpenStack project allows development teams to spec, size and allocate storage as they see fit under the controls of our pipeline tooling,” said Richard Haigh, global head, reliability and operations, Paddy Power Betfair. “Put simply, the choice was about performance – Pure is easy to manage, has great in-line de-duplication and compression and offers a dense rack footprint.“

The company has published two whitepapers on OpenStack architecture, available on the Pure1 Community (registration required):