Pure Storage announced Pure
Storage Cloud for Microsoft Azure VMware Solution (AVS), a new fully
managed block storage-as-a-service (STaaS) offering available for AVS.
This new solution, soon to be in preview, will be offered as an Azure
Native integration.
The Azure Native Integrations Pure Storage service provides customers
with a seamless management and deployment experience across both the
Azure Portal and their Pure Storage environment, with the ability to use
services against their existing Microsoft Azure Consumption Commitments
(MACC). The first service that will be made available is a fully
managed service for AVS to remove storage infrastructure barriers for
enterprise customers migrating VMware workloads to the cloud.
Industry Significance:
Enterprises migrating their on-premises VMware environments to AVS
can face challenges due to storage costs and complexity. Today, there is
no data storage option in the cloud that perfectly mirrors existing
on-premises setups, and organizations risk refactoring their
infrastructure to make the transition. Storage-intensive workloads call
for a storage architecture that can scale storage independently from
compute nodes to employ those resources most effectively. Enterprises
benefit from options to scale compute and storage separately to avoid
paying for excess compute and storage.
Pure Storage Cloud for AVS supports seamless migrations, optimizes
costs, and simplifies management by decoupling storage and compute. Pure
Storage's fully-managed service provides an external storage option for
enterprises to migrate storage volumes and VMs, providing the same
block storage experience to power cloud VMware environments that Pure
Storage customers rely on today with on-premises enterprise-grade
storage.
News Highlights:
With the Pure Storage Cloud for Azure VMware Solution, enterprise
customers can now seamlessly migrate scaled VMware workloads to AVS.
Benefits include:
- Seamless Migration of VMware Workloads to the Cloud: Enterprises
can migrate storage-heavy, on-premises VMware workloads to the Azure
cloud. This service is the first to bring support for VMware vSphere®
Storage APIs for Array Integration (VAAI) and VMware vSphere Virtual
Volumes (vVols) to Azure VMware Solution to enable communication between
VMware vSphere hosts and storage devices while relying on the same
protocols across on-premises and cloud storage. Data can live where it's
needed most while optimizing for performance, availability, and cost.
- Improved Cost Efficiencies to Drive Innovation: Enterprises
can now optimize and streamline cloud storage to realize savings that
can be reallocated to innovation to grow their business. The Pure
Storage platform enables customers to manage cloud storage costs and
decrease TCO for AVS with a premium storage service that eliminates
unnecessary compute resources, while gaining budget predictability. In
fact, customers can save up to 40% on their Azure VMware Solution costs
when using Pure Storage Cloud for Azure VMware Solution.
- Enterprise-Grade Data Resilience: Organizations gain
enterprise-class security and data protection in the cloud, far
exceeding the basic security features available today. With Pure Storage
Cloud for AVS, data protection comes built-in with industry-leading
Pure Storage SafeModeTM Snapshots. As a result, if an organization
experiences data loss in their AVS environment, Pure Storage platform
enables systems to be back up-and-running in minutes instead of hours or
days without losing data.
- Reduced Storage Complexity: With a fully-managed storage
service that decouples compute and storage, the Pure Storage platform
helps customers reduce complexity and eliminate the overhead of managing
their storage. Leveraging the Pure Storage platform on-premises and in
the cloud, organizations create a seamless hybrid data plane and
optimize cost of moving data to meet the changing demands of
applications. IT teams can centrally manage their storage, monitor
usage, and take control of their infrastructure without the operational
headaches of siloed data.