Pure Storage and Equinix Collaborate

Pure Storage, Inc. and Equinix, Inc. announced Pure Storage on Equinix Metal, a Bare Metal as-a-Service storage offering that delivers an unified, connected platform for any stage of an organization’s cloud journey.

Pure Storage And Equinix Collaborate

Enterprises are increasingly moving out of their own data centers to reduce management complexity and staff burden, and to increase the agility and efficiency of their IT environments. 57% of enterprises have a strategic vision for hybrid IT¹ with less of their data processed in their own data centers or the cloud. Regardless of where their data lives, enterprises still need control over their environment and the flexibility to react to business changes without having to manage everything on their own.

Pure Storage on Equinix Metal provides an environment in which physical, dedicated, single tenant servers and storage can be provisioned to customers with cloud-like ease and speed. The solution can eliminate upfront Capex investment for hardware and ongoing stack management by embedding storage and simple, on-demand procurement of network, storage and compute, with hosting, deployment, and support of all physical aspects via one vendor, under one contract. The solution can also lower operational costs and risks, and allows for more flexible, scalable, as a service delivery of IT infrastructure, empowering organizations to only pay for what they use, when they want to use it.

“Enterprises want full control over their environment, but they don’t want to operate their own data centers or be forced to fit into traditional cloud models – they want a cloud model that fits their business. By partnering with Equinix, we are eliminating management complexity and delivering the flexibility and controls that put organizations in charge of what their technology platforms can do for them,” said Jack Hogan, VP of technology strategy, Pure.

Equinix Metal is an automated, interconnected and secure bare metal service that applies a developer and API-first mindset to foundational infrastructure and provides a fully automated way for digital businesses to access the value of Platform Equinix via its collection of DevOps and open-source integrations. The new managed appliance as a service capability on Equinix Metal, which Equinix introduced as part of a series of Equinix Metal product enhancements, is designed to support solutions including Pure Storage, the first storage-as-a-service offering announced on Equinix Metal.

“Digital leaders increasingly require proximity to hardware, software, clouds and networks to create advantage, and Equinix offers a unique range of places, partners and possibilities to enable them. Our customers have been asking for a solution that combines interconnected bare metal with Pure’s world-class storage and the flexibility of an as-a-service model. Today we are excited to announce Pure as our first storage-as-a- service partner on Equinix Metal, available across our 18 global metros,” said Zac Smith, MD, Equinix Metal.

Pure on Equinix Metal allows businesses to consume interconnected infrastructure with the control of physical hardware and the low overhead and developer experience of the cloud, helping them move faster in competitive environment. The service supports a range of use cases, including legacy on-premises applications, high-volume data-driven applications, and cloud-native and next-gen applications.

Solutions enabled include:

Hybrid cloud and Data Recovery-as-a-Service for virtual environments: Customers can extend, protect, or migrate on premises, self-managed VM environments to a hosted environment powered by FlashArray, with flexibility and options for a multi-cloud VM-based environment or a full VM-based cloud.
Performance, near-edge cloud storage: By combining the FlashBlade unified fast file and object platform with Equinix Metal, diverse unstructured data workloads can be consolidated onto a scalable platform with multi-dimensional performance.
Hybrid and edge cloud native container storage: With Portworx by Pure Storage, customers can amplify their hybrid- and multi-cloud strategy by deploying a full Kubernetes environment capable of running mission-critical applications on a Bare Metal, interconnected platform that is much faster than the public cloud. Portworx, the Kubernetes storage platform according to GigaOm Research, enables customers to deploy, secure, run, and protect their mission-critical data services as they would in traditional data centers, but with the automation and flexibility provided by Kubernetes.

“The world of data is growing exponentially and should persist and exist wherever customers need to access it, especially at the edge. We’re now beginning to see a new paradigm in which developers have the ability to build and deploy infrastructure at software speeds, and stand up environments anywhere in the world, with the compute and storage resources they need right at their fingertips,” commented Mark Bowker, senior analyst, The Enterprise Strategy Group, Inc.

Pure Storage on Equinix Metal is available in 18 global Equinix Metal metros.

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¹ 451research Voice of the Enterprise: Cloud, Hosting and Managed Services, Organizational Dynamics survey, 2Q20