Pure Storage Simplifies OpenStack Deployments

Pure Storage, Inc. expanded support for OpenStack and new solution offerings to simplify OpenStack deployments.

As part of the company’s ongoing mission to innovate and improve the speed and efficiency of OpenStack deployments, the company has developed solution offerings with other companies, including Cisco Systems, Inc. and Breqwatr, Inc. These solutions ensure customers seeking to deploy cloud services no longer have to choose between future cloud deployments and infrastructure. In fact, customers can deploy OpenStack and be operational almost immediately.

To reduce the management complexity associated with OpenStack environments, Pure Storage and Cisco provide a managed OpenStack solution as part of Cisco Metacloud services. It is a predictable, highly-available cloud platform for infrastructure-as-a-service and application-as-a-service offerings. Based on OpenStack, Metacloud with Pure Storage scales to thousands of application instances and integrates with existing tools via APIs.

“As our relationship with Cisco grows, so does the trust Pure Storage customers place in our ability to deliver innovative solutions like Metacloud that provide reliable high performance infrastructure and improve operational efficiency,” said Matt Kixmoeller, VP of product, Pure. “By reducing the complexity involved in deploying and operating private cloud environments, Pure’s comprehensive support of OpenStack ensures large and mid-size organizations across a wide range of industries can operate faster, smarter and more cost-effectively.“

For customers seeking a pre-installed OpenStack environment delivered as a pre-integrated appliance, Pure has also partnered with Breqwatr to provide block storage as part of the Breqwatr Cloud System. It brings the power of all-flash block storage to a turnkey infrastructure-as-a-service solution that helps reduce the costs, complexities and risk associated with OpenStack private clouds.

Pure is helping to reduce the complexity of OpenStack deployments and transform it into a production environment ready solution.

Additional customer-focused benefits include:

• Choice of deployment and consumption models: Customers can choose from a range of OpenStack deployment models including appliance models, managed services offerings, and pre-deployment.
• Keep Operations In-house: The Pure/Cisco collaboration allows organizations to keep services in-house, avoid the high cost of public cloud, and maintain security and control over operations.
• Advanced Storage Features: Pure’s replication and snapshot features are integrated with OpenStack and available at no additional cost. These features provide both flexibility and insurance by delivering BC and remote data protection services.
• Service Reliability: Pure FlashArray//m has an average of 99.9999% availability on deployed systems. This industry availability metric, which includes all planned and unplanned downtime, results in an average of 32s. of storage downtime per year. With Pure, OpenStack services remain online and performant, even through upgrades, maintenance, and failure scenarios.
  

Pure exhibited at the OpenStack Summit in Barcelona, Spain on October 25-28..

The firm is a member of the OpenStack Foundation, and Pure’s employees contribute to the OpenStack project, including membership on the Cinder core committee.