New features include active disaster recovery, powered by new continuous replication technology and unified block and file-based storage capabilities
Pure Storage (NYSE: PSTG), an IT pioneer delivering data storage as a service to a multi-cloud world, announced Purity 6.0 for FlashArray, the latest release of Pure's flagship software suite. Designed to meet the needs of modern businesses, these new agile data services provide customers with an efficient way to store, secure, manage, access and mobilize data from strategic and personalized consumption models.
Purity 6.0 is intended to be a simplified, unified block and file storage solution designed to help solve infrastructure challenges, including silos and storage sprawl, that are currently impacting businesses across all industries. With a host of new agile data services, Pure has made available two key new features – unified protocol support with Network File System (NFS) and Server Message Block (SMB), plus active disaster recovery with new continuous replication technology . As part of the Evergreen Storage subscription model, these new features come to market with a zero level of complexity, and do not require additional licenses or support costs.
"Flexible consumption models represent the foundation of the modern data experience offered by Pure," explains Prakash Darji, General Manager of FlashArray. “We've had the advantage of being built specifically for the modern era – our solutions are designed for large amounts of data, capable of non-disruptive upgrades, and compatible with the innovations that are always to come, so our customers have state-of-the-art infrastructure . Purity 6.0 represents the next step to deliver this continuous value to our customers through services that can be consumed in the way that best suits their needs, at any time”, completes the executive.
These unified features in FlashArray reduce the hassle and expense of running two incompatible environments. They are designed to simplify operations for businesses that run block storage but still require or use separate network-attached storage. This allows customers to run all workloads in the Purity operating environment, leverage the same data tier, user interface, capacity pool and be able to reduce data volume with Pure.
Likewise, ActiveDR, the new continuous replication feature, helps improve business resiliency while eliminating the cost and complexity of third-party disaster recovery software add-ons. This new active-passive replication technology addresses an important business requirement, protecting critical applications with near-zero recovery point objective (RPO). Customers can now leverage synchronous, active-active, ActiveCluster, snapshot-based asynchronous replication, and continuous replication services on a single Purity platform.
Purity 6.0 brings additional enhancements, features and solutions that customers can adopt immediately, without interruption, and as part of Evergreen's signature innovation strategy. Highlights of this release include:
• Expanded Cloud Backup with CloudSnap for Google Cloud Platform: feature that adds cloud storage destinations to the Google Cloud Platform, where Pure Storage's space-saving snapshots can be replicated for offsite storage and reuse;
• Categorize datasets for easy identification with public volume tags;
• Ensuring data security and access is controlled using RSA two- and multi-factor authentication;
• Effective plan to expand capacity with the click-to-quote of Pure1;
• Protection of critical workloads using ActiveDR with:
– Virtualized workloads with ActiveDR support for VMware Site Recovery Manager;
– Business-critical applications such as: Microsoft SQL, Oracle, SAP and MongoDB
• Protection of unstructured data on Purity's new file services with Veeam and CommVault backup solutions.
"For Pure Storage, the introduction of native file system support in FlashArray will be of benefit to customers," said Eric Burgener, vice president of research at IDC. “Customers can now cost-effectively consolidate multiple file servers onto this unified storage platform and gain all-flash performance, ease-of-use and customer experience differentiation with block-based workloads,” he concludes.
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