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New Purity enhances file supports and ransomware protection for FlashBlade and FlashArray
Pure Storage (NYSE: PSTG), the IT pioneer that delivers storage as-a-service in a multi-cloud world, announced enhancements to its unified storage portfolio, extending its enterprise storage market leadership by expanding into new markets and verticals. The updates to the flagship Purity software for FlashBlade and FlashArray accelerate Windows applications, deliver ransomware protection across file, block and native cloud-based apps. Pure has also introduced the third generation enterprise-grade QLC flash storage array FlashArray//C to provide enterprises with cost-effective high-capacity solutions and powerful functions.
The latest updates, delivered through Pure’s Evergreen subscription model, further the company’s vision for a Modern Data Experience™. The four key enhancements are:
Today’s news extends FlashBlade’s industry leadership with new native SMB support. This provides simplicity and multi-dimensional performance for very high throughput and IOPS with low latency to support multiple workloads simultaneously, files of any size, and sequential or random I/O access. Customers can accelerate Windows applications with a rich set of existing data services, including Replication, File System Rollback, and SafeMode™ Snapshots for rapid ransomware recovery. Validated solutions include healthcare PACS applications and SQL Server Backup at speeds higher than 1TB/min for SQL farms that demand fast backup and recovery, further strengthening FlashBlade’s industry leadership.
FlashBlade’s new Cross-Protocol File Security design allows access control interoperability between SMB and NFS users while preserving access control lists for both in addition to complying with federal security mandates.
FlashArray’s scale-up architecture balances performance and capacity, delivering operational file services for VDI, file server consolidation, user home directories, and file sharing. File capabilities in FlashArray enhance the value of inherent features such as deduplication and compression.
FlashBlade and FlashArray are now both strengthened by SafeMode snapshots, delivering a complete portfolio of protection tools to ensure data is always safe and recoverable in seconds. Immutable snapshots and Policy-based Retention protect companies against the risk of lost revenues, ransom payments, and brand damage associated with ransomware attacks.
FlashBlade, the industry-defining Unified Fast File and Object (UFFO) platform, provides enhanced object security with S3 simple user policies, enabling access control at the user level. Granular, user-level performance monitoring meets a critical requirement for real-time visibility into the most active users and unified APIs/SDK improves the automation experience across FlashBlade, FlashArray, and Pure1® with unified REST APIs and Python SDK.
ActiveCluster™ delivers stretch clustering solutions for critical applications over any fabric to realize zero RPO and zero RTO. ActiveCluster is integrated with Pure1 Cloud Mediator, which removes the need to manage a cumbersome third-site witness and enables a third recovery site to be added anywhere in the world.
As the first to market with NVMe over Fabrics, Pure continues to accelerate its market leadership as it delivers an all-NVMe architecture for Flash, Direct Memory Modules, replication, and now support for both NVMe over Fibre Channel and Ethernet. Support for NVMe can reduce application latency by up to 50% by reducing latencies to hundreds of microseconds.
Pure continues to set benchmarks in the flash domain with unmatched speeds. Following the new releases of FlashArray//C40 and FlashArray//C60, Pure has launched the all-QLC FlashArray//C with industry-leading speeds. FlashArray//C can replace legacy disks and eliminates hybrid storage arrays of similar capacity on the market to support everything from departments to data center consolidation and meet the needs of environments and deployments of any scale.
According to Ajay Singh, Chief Product Officer, Pure Storage: “Pure is named a leader in the recent Gartner Magic Quadrant for Primary Storage Arrays and positioned highest and farthest in both vectors because we are chipping away at the complexity baked into legacy storage that is simply not designed for the digital age. Our vision for a Modern Data Experience empowers organisations to innovate by providing a dynamic, cloud-based storage experience that is flexible, on-demand, and delivered as code.
According to Antonio Puccio, Director of SAN Storage, Royal Bank of Canada, and long-term Pure customer: “Pure is always one step ahead of the market and the latest updates to the Purity software across FlashBlade and FlashArray show that we’ve made the right choice for our business. With Pure, we have been able to achieve 100% uptime in our environment, which is critical to our operations.
Only Pure’s Evergreen™ subscription services come ready with all-inclusive licencing, allowing customers to adopt new innovations without disruption, downtime, or the requirement to re-buy capacity. As part of the Evergreen™ Storage subscription model, these new features require no additional licenses or support costs and ensure zero added complexity. The new features in Purity for FlashArray are available immediately and in 2021Q1 for Purity for FlashBlade.
