Even if businesses are being pushed heavily into the cloud these days, there are still reasons and scenarios that speak – at least in part – for an on-premises infrastructure and storage environment. The problem, according to Pure Storage, is that conventional storage systems are trapped in extremely complex architectures that make large-scale automation impossible. Of new announcements Pure Storage continues its vision of bringing infrastructure and applications closer together through cloud-like automation and storage delivery.
Pure fusion is a self-service storage platform designed to combine the best of enterprise storage with the flexibility and scalability of the cloud. It also offers a SaaS management plan that groups storage arrays into availability zones and automates previously complex tasks such as workload placement, workload mobility, and fleet balancing.
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In addition, the solution includes a new API framework that allows both storage teams and end users to work in an on-demand storage-as-code model that integrates with the developer tools in use today. To use Pure Fusion, an administrator simply defines a storage class and Pure Fusion automatically optimizes placement, adjusts storage classes, uses new resources and optimizes the entire fleet. Pure Fusion will be available as part of an Early Access Preview in late 2021, and the solution will be generally available in the first half of next year.
They are also moving towards automated dispensing newly featured Portworx Data Services. The idea, according to Pure Storage, is that with one click, DevOps engineers can deploy a managed, production-ready data service on Kubernetes, comprising a comprehensive catalog of options for SQL, NoSQL, search, streaming, and more.
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This means you can now deploy apps while defining storage and infrastructure requirements, explains Markus Grau, Principal Technology Strategist at Pure Storage. This would automate classic day-2 operations, including monitoring, backups, high availability, disaster recovery, migration, autoscaling, security, and lifecycle. According to Grau, the solution is similar to Amazon RDS – just for any infrastructure i.e. on-premises, AWS, IBM or any other cloud provider. The Portworx Data Services Early Access program is now open. According to Pure Storage, general availability is scheduled for early 2022.
Pure Storage has also announced improvements to the Pure1 Management Portal. Users can now view real-time Service Level Agreements (SLAs) in their cloud, monitor applications protected from ransomware attacks by SafeMode snapshots, and visualize their Portworx container infrastructure end-to-end.