Customers Using Pure1 Cloud-Based Management Platform

Pure Storage, Inc. announced significant customer momentum for its Pure1, an AI-driven, cloud-based infrastructure management and support platform.

It gives customers better visibility and self-driving storage in any environment. Organizations spend less time managing infrastructure and more time on innovation.

“Other storage platforms force customers to engage in time-consuming management tasks, and we know our customers want to focus on what’s really important – improving their business and end-user experience,” said Dan Decasper, GM of Pure1, Pure. “The Pure1 platform delivers autonomous management of storage in traditional or hybrid architectures – right from a single cloud console.“

Powered by Pure1 Meta AI engine, this solution helps customers optimize and automate infrastructure, and serves customers with a variety of tools, including predictive support, AI-driven management, and full-stack analytics across multi-cloud environments.

Pure1 helps create cohesive management and support processes to enable easy, fast communication between customers, partners, and Pure staff with 24/7 support. To reduce cost, it helps customers integrate applications in virtualization and cloud computing environments and replaces dedicated storage management servers at each site where arrays are located.

Self-Driving
Automation is the future of modern infrastructure. Pure1 is an AI-driven infrastructure management tool built to be self-driving so customers can meet business goals without consuming limited resources. It helps proactively identify potential issues to solve problems before they occur, which saves customers time.

Through analysis of historical data, Pure1 scans for known issues in an array and support tickets are automatically generated to notify the customer so that potential issues can be resolved before they cause problems. The self-driving nature of Pure1 also gives customers insight into performance and capacity growth, helps predict upgrade improvements, and optimizes resource utilization.

Since 1988, NTT DATA, Inc. has played a role in establishing and IT infrastructure. Headquartered in Tokyo, Japan, with business operations in more than 50 countries and regions, it provides a variety of professional services such as consulting, system development, business IT outsourcing and more. The firm uses Pure1 to plan for performance and capacity growth and to solve problems before they happen.

“NTT DATA has benefited tremendously from the Pure1 support platform,” said Yuji Chigita, senior manager, digital business solution division, NTT DATA. “Pure1 is able to proactively identify issues based on our past activity, alert our team if a problem is detected, and resolve it before it occurs. Self-driving storage puts us at ease knowing that any issues will be proactively resolved. Pure1’s AI-driven management also allows us to run simulations so that we can gauge when and if our arrays will become low on capacity.”

Full Stack
Too often, VM admins spend more time identifying issues than it takes to actually solve the problem. Pure1 VM Analytics gives customers a view into the performance of their infrastructure and reduces the time needed to identify and fix infrastructure performance problems across storage and VMs, which allows customers to focus on service delivery rather than blind troubleshooting.

Navis, a part of Cargotec Corporation, is transforming the way goods are delivered across oceanic supply chain. It provides software for more than 60% of the world’s major ports. Its flagship product, the N4 Terminal OS, is used to automate equipment operations at port, track the movement of cargo, and manage multiple terminals through a single solution. Pure1 VMAnalytics helps Navis reduce time to resolution by identifying where a problem has happened.

“The Navis N4 Terminal OS software is able to control the movement of a shipping container from the time it enters a port until it is dispatched on a ship, truck or train. After a ship leaves port we can track a ship and individual containers for more efficient offloading at their destination,” said Jim Wild, manager, R&D infrastructure operations – IT, Navis. “With Pure VMAnalytics we are able to introduce new releases or enhanced versions of our N4 product into the marketplace through performance tuning and consolidation of storage pools. The Pure devices have tripled the number of daily compiles and software builds over what we were able to complete on the previous vendor’s devices.“

Multi-cloud
When data are stored in both the public cloud and on-prem it can be difficult to manage. With the combination of Pure’s upcoming cloud block store on AWS and traditional flash array on-premises, customers can embrace hybrid cloud architectures for their data. This hybrid architecture requires consistent visibility and management of data wherever it is stored, and Pure1 provides a view of all snapshots using snapshot catalog, whether the target is flash array, flash blade, cloud block store, or a third-party NFS or S3 target. Purity CloudSnap maximizes the cloud’s potential for backup storage with data transfer to and from the cloud.

Royal Bank of Canada is one of Canada’s largest banks, and a North America diversified financial services company. It provides personal and commercial banking, wealth management, insurance, investor services, and capital markets products and services.

“We are excited to see what Pure1’s manageability of cloud platforms like Cloud Block Store and CloudSnap new multi-cloud capability will offer,” said Antonio Puccio, director of SAN storage, Royal Bank of Canada. “With cloud-based platforms like Pure1, it is easier for organizations to manage their storage infrastructure across hybrid cloud environments withut having to invest in multiple vendors and tools.“

Analyst Recognition:
Gartner July 2018 Magic Quadrant for Solid-State Arrays
IDC MarketScape for All-Flash Arrays