Pure Storage Cloud Data Services Suite of Cloud Offerings Running on AWS

Pure Storage, Inc. announced its Cloud Data Services, a suite of cloud offerings that run on Amazon Web Services (AWS).

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With these products, customers can invest in a single storage architecture that unifies application deployments on-premises and on the cloud to flexibly turn data into value virtually anywhere.

Enterprise application mobility, coupled with emerging technologies like AI, machine learning (ML) and deep analytics, has increased the strategic importance of infrastructure exponentially.

Applications of all types – traditional and emerging – demand flexible, location-independent data accessibility, and this has had a profound impact on infrastructure. Organizations need real-time access to any and all data, which requires applications to move freely between on-premises and the cloud. Historically, a lack of purpose-designed, strategic integrations between on-premises storage and the cloud have been a primary inhibitor of application mobility.

“Today, there exists a cloud divide – the cloud is not purpose-built for enterprise applications, and enterprise infrastructure isn’t as user-friendly as the cloud,” said Charles Giancarlo, chairman and CEO, Pure Storage. “Customers should be able to make infrastructure choices based on what’s best for their environment, not constrained by what the technology can do or where it lives. Today’s announcement extends Pure’s data centric architecture to the cloud, allowing our customers to build hybrid applications that provide true mobility and freedom.“

Customer demand clearly indicates that a unified hybrid cloud architecture is the best model to bring agility to the enterprise. Today, organizations are too often forced to choose between on-premises or cloud, while the best pathway to innovation and operational effectiveness comes from a hybrid strategy – an architecture that provides access to all clouds.

Nothing is more important for hybrid than the right data strategy, as data is key to development and application mobility. The company unifies cloud and delivers a common set of data services across on-premises and cloud, enabling consistent storage capabilities, APIs, and resiliency so that applications can be built once and run everywhere.

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Storage Cloud Data Services are set of capabilities designed
to run company’s software on AWS.
They include:

• Cloud Block Store for AWS. Industrial-strength block storage that runs on AWS. Designed to enable mission-critical applications to run in the cloud, Cloud Block Store enables hybrid mobility and adds storage services to webscale applications.

• CloudSnap for AWS. Cloud-based data protection, built into the firm’s FlashArray. CloudSnap allows FlashArray snapshots to be sent to Amazon Simple Storage Service (Amazon S3), which enables cost-effective protection in the cloud along with flexible recovery both on-premises or in the cloud.

• StorReduce. Cloud-native deduplication technology, designed to enable fast, simple, cost-effective cloud backup to AWS S3 storage, in conjunction with on-premises flash for fast recovery.

These Storage Cloud Data Services allow customers to embrace a hybrid cloud architecture. Customers can migrate applications to the cloud, build and run hybrid across on-premises and cloud, use the cloud for backup and data protection, and develop more sophisticated webscale applications which leverage storage capabilities like snapshots and multi-zone replication.

In addition, the company’s recent acquisition of StorReduce, Inc., an object storage deduplication engine, enables organizations to replace purpose-built backup appliances with flash for fast recovery, and tape with Amazon S3 object storage for offsite data retention. This backup architecture – flash-to-flash-to-cloud – modernizes backup and recovery processes using flash, the public cloud, and allows for flexible re-use of backup data with different AWS services.

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“Pure has built upon the reliable base of AWS storage offerings to create value-add features and help enterprise applications to work across on-premises and AWS.” said Sabina Joseph, head, global partnerships and alliances, digital innovation, storage, HPC solutions, AWS. “Pure Storage is delivering a unified hybrid cloud experience, providing consistent APIs and automation for developers, and offering uniquely differentiated backup and data protection solutions on AWS through StorReduce and CloudSnap.“

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The company helps customers in three ways to deliver on its cloud vision:

• Help customers build clouds. Organizations can build private clouds on premises or in hosted environments to deliver storage-as-a-service with the performance, availability and ease of use customers expect from the firm.

• Enable applications to run hybrid anywhere. Not only can customers run applications in on-prem or hosted environments, they can also run on Pure within AWS. A single storage platform can deliver consistent storage services, resiliency and APIs across on-premises and cloud, which allows applications to be built once and run virtually anywhere.

• Deliver data protection everywhere. Customers have the flexibility to choose reliable backup, recovery and retention options for their specific needs by replacing legacy tape and disk with performance flash and cost-effective cloud storage.

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The company’s customer Causeway Capital Management LLC‘s mission is to provide clients with risk-adjusted returns while maintaining a culture of responsibility and accountability. Data is the lifeblood of modern organizations, and Pure’s integrations with multiple clouds allow Causeway Capital to innovate with data, unconstrained.

“Hybrid applications give us the advantage of best-in-class capabilities delivered by the cloud,” said Pete Petersen, CTO and CISO, Causeway Capital. “Today’s landscape is competitive. We can’t afford to limit our innovation to on-premises or the cloud. Now, our application developers can develop to a single storage API, leverage a storage platform that provides rich resiliency services and count on Pure for guidance and reliability.“

“Strategic, user-friendly collaborations with the cloud are critical to the future of business,” said Frank Gens, SVP and chief analyst, IDC. “With these new cloud-native products, Pure Storage has given its customers the power of and, not or — the ability to leverage innovation across the cloud. Now, customers can build the right data architecture for the future of their business by allowing for hybrid cloud agility that puts data at the heart of IT strategy.“

Availability:

• Cloud Block Store is in limited public beta. Customers can sign up here. availability is planned mid-2019.

• CloudSnap is available.

• StorReduce is entering limited public beta. Customers can sign up here. availability is planned for the 1H19.

Resources:
Learn more about how the company can help organizations unify application deployments on-premises and in the cloud to flexibly turn data into value anywhere and everywhere. Join the virtual launch event on November 19, featuring 45 minutes of industry-changing insight.
Blog: A New Chapter: Pure Unifies Cloud
Blog: Introducing Cloud Block Store for AWS
Blog: Flash-to-Flash-to-Cloud – Why Tape is Dead

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2018.08.22 | Press Release