Pure Storage Protect//DraaS Solution and Scalable AI-Powered Management Capabilities

Pure Storage, Inc. announced critical new data resilience offerings, including the introduction of Pure Protect//DRaaS, a DraaS solution, new energy efficiency guarantees for its Evergreen portfolio, and scalable AI-powered storage services via its Pure1 management platform to global enterprises.

With the introduction of consumption-based DR via Pure Protect, a data resilience scoring system via Pure1, and updates to Evergreen subscriptions that include a new Paid Power and Rack commitment, the company enables enterprises to adopt a complete, end-to-end storage strategy that assures data resilience, reduces labor costs, accelerates sustainability initiatives, and delivers unrivaled TCO benefits.

Industry significance:
The rate of devastating ransomware attacks and the increasing frequency of natural disasters are upending business continuity more often each day. While many organizations recognize the importance of a DR plan, current DR solutions on the market are complex, expensive, and disruptive. Likewise, the current energy crisis, new environmental regulations, and ethical imperatives to improve corporate sustainability have led companies to set ambitious net-zero goals, but reckoning with the typical data center’s power demands has remained challenging. And with digitization at scale and data proliferation and fragmentation, end-to-end operations management further aggravates the skill and budget shortages for IT.

Today’s introduction of Pure Protect //DRaaS and updates to the firm’s Evergreen portfolio address these critical industry pain points, and also set new milestones for customer-centricity with compelling guarantees.

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Highlights:

• Assured data resilience: The firm enables enterprises everywhere to maximize data protection with a complete, multi-layered data resilience strategy built from the ground up. With intrinsic data protection built into its Evergreen architecture via ActiveDR, ActiveCluster, and SafeMode Snapshot capabilities, the company has now expanded data resilience with new trusted operations capabilities and a new DR service:
  • Pure Protect //DRaaS, a consumption-based DRaaS solution, reduces complexity, cost, recovery time, and business disruption in the wake of disasters and cyber disruptions. Organizations now have clean environments with multiple restore points to recover clean copies of their on-premises vSphere data, to native AWS EC2, no matter what underlying storage infrastructure it is, while ensuring data centers remain isolated for investigation.
  • Data Resilience Score, within the Pure1 Data Protection Assessment, underscores the firm’s trusted operations by providing better transparency in the adoption of Pure Storage and data protection and backup partner technologies, while offering the ability to assess entire fleet configurations against leading practices.
  • Zero Data Loss Guarantee, across the Evergreen portfolio, provides peace of mind that customers data will not be lost due to the firm’s hardware or software issues. In the rare case of any data corruption, the company assures data protection with advanced data recovery services for any hardware or software product-related incidents, at no cost.

• Enhanced service experience, everywhere: With the firm’s AI-powered asset and lifecycle management services and policy-based automation, customers can achieve operational excellence, anywhere and on any scale.
  • Asset management and genealogy: Allows customers and the company to jointly optimize labor costs to run and operate storage. Customers get transparency to manage Evergreen assets, contracts, subscriptions, and lifecycle, and get visibility into capacity, energy, and rack space usage. Customers can also view how each asset or subscription has evolved over time, including software updates, ramps, expansions, and renewals, and gain insight into upcoming lifecycle events such as EOL, upgrades, or contract expiration.
  • Subscription lifecycle operations: Customers benefit from a subscription viewer to understand when subscriptions require attention and renewal, predictive tracking of capacity utilization with actionable alerts to optimize reserve commit vs on-demand consumption, and new SLA indicators to track how well the company is meeting performance and efficiency SLAs. Customers can plan for future demand, trigger in-app workflows to request quotes, or use the new Pure1 Marketplace for a simplified subscription shopping experience. Partners can take advantage of these capabilities via APIs and early notifications of lifecycle events (EOL, renewal) to deliver seamless procurement experiences to joint customers.
  • Policy-driven upgrades take the guesswork out of choosing the right Purity release and simplify fleet management. They help customers strike the right balance between frequent upgrades and maintaining a secure and supported storage environment based on their organization’s goals.
  • Pure1 Mobile App enables customers to get insights and alerts even on the go as well as manage cases and get the latest information and news from Pure anywhere in the world.
• Guaranteed energy efficiency while saving money: With the Paid Power and Rack Space commitment in the enterprise SaaS market, and energy, density, and upgrade guarantees, the company is committed to providing the most sustainable storage solutions in the industry, and is also determined to make being green easier and more affordable for global customers.

“Enterprises are challenged by an evolving business landscape – innovation is up, but so are data security threats, energy sources are expanding, but climate change must be addressed, and labor participation is at an all-time high, yet budgets are tightening and talent is harder to find. The introduction of Pure Protect //DRaaS, unique Pure1 capabilities for subscription lifecycle operations, and an industry-first sustainability commitment underscore Pure’s pledge to deliver the most secure, smart, and energy-efficient storage services required by modern businesses,” said Prakash Darji, VP and GM, digital experience business unit, Pure Storage

“Asset tracking and subscription management have long been challenges for any enterprise organization, creating bottlenecks, driving unexpected costs, and hindering productivity of our staff. The latest AI-powered asset management capabilities within Pure1 have enabled us to both improve consumption of our existing subscriptions, while transparently tracking SLAs, and effectively and accurately manage our storage infrastructure – from capacity utilization to renewals – from a single management platform,” said Josh Holst, VP, cloud services, Involta.

Resources:
Pure Protect//DraaS DS
Simplified Disaster Recovery with Pure Protect //DraaS (PDF)
Blog: The Future Is Now, and It Secures Your Data and Budget    
Blog: Introducing Pure Protect//Disaster Recovery as a Service (DRaaS)     
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