Pure Fusion by Pure Storage: Self-Service, Autonomous Storage-as-Code Platform Built for Limitless Scale

Pure Storage, Inc. announced Pure Fusion, a self-service, autonomous storage platform that marries enterprise storage with the agility and scalability of the cloud.

Pure Fusion architecture
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it delivers a SaaS management plane that pools storage arrays into availability zones and automates previously complex tasks such as workload placement, workload mobility, and fleet rebalancing. It also includes an API framework that enables both storage teams and end users to operate in an on-demand, storage-as-code model that integrates with the developer tools they use today.

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Today’s IT leaders want the scale and ease-of-use of the public cloud from their own infrastructure, but legacy storage is mired in fundamentally complex architectures, making it impossible to automate at scale. Enterprise storage must evolve to deliver a cloud-operating model that gives organizations the flexibility, agility, and speed they want, no matter where their data ultimately resides.

Pure Fusion intelligent workload management
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Pure Fusion delivers an infinite scale-out storage model that unifies arrays and optimizes storage pools on the fly, bringing the simplicity of the cloud operating model anywhere with on-demand consumption and back-end provisioning. End-users will be able to consume volumes, file systems, and advanced data services like replication without waiting for back-end manual work, making hardware truly invisible. Pure Fusion will allow organizations to scale, integrating first with FlashArray//X, FlashArray//C, and Pure Cloud Block Store, with future integrations planned with FlashBlade and Portworx. It, coupled with the company’s portfolio, will take performance, density, and data availability to new levels.

“Customers want a new agile storage experience that is fully automated, self-service, and pay-as-you-go. Pure Fusion breaks down the traditional barriers of enterprise storage to deliver true storage-as-code and much faster time to innovation.” said Ajay Singh, chief product officer.

“Many organizations today want everything: accelerated application development without sacrificing performance, availability, and security. Today’s announcement of Pure Fusion aligns exactly with that need and simply put, they have created something that the new generation of IT wants.” said Scott Sinclair, senior analyst, Enterprise Strategy Group

Pure Fusion near infinite scale-out
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Key features and benefits of Fusion include:

Infinite scale-out: Modernize storage clustering with new cloud-like availability zones to achieve nearly unlimited scale-out.
Cloud self-service: Enable end-users to rapidly consume volumes, file systems, and advanced data services like replication without waiting for back-end manual work.
Intelligent workload management: Optimize storage pools by assigning and rebalancing workloads on the fly as conditions change – without hands-on management.
Enhanced reliability: Ensure global availability and superior fault tolerance without impacting performance.
Automation through our Storage-as-Code model: Provision and deploy customer storage volumes faster, from the most common tools developers use today like Terraform and Ansible, with an API-first interface.