Pure Enterprise Information Cloud bundles its IP for enterprise outcomes

Pure Storage has launched Enterprise Information Cloud (EDC), which knits collectively a number of present components in its providing to supply enhanced visibility of knowledge storage and easier policy-based management-oriented outcomes for the enterprise.

It has additionally introduced new high-performance flash arrays and the supply this yr of a 300TB (terabyte) Direct FlashModule, together with a solid-state drive (see field).

Additionally added in EDC – and introduced at its Speed up occasion in Las Vegas this week – is the aptitude to construct in utility and workload-specific orchestration that mixes storage, server, networking and utility configuration.

Principally, EDC is a bundling of present Pure Storage architectural components. These are the Purity storage OS, which is widespread to all the corporate’s arrays; Fusion, which permits discovery and administration of storage assets; Pure1, which permits for fleet administration by way of efficiency and detailed administration of assets; and Evergreen, which is the corporate’s consumption buying supply that enables for as-a-service procurement.

However it’s a bundling of present components that leans into the established mainstream of cloud working fashions and builds on widespread architectural and working atmosphere components throughout the Pure Storage vary.

All this combines to supply a cloud-like storage administration atmosphere that Pure intends will enable prospects to implement “declarative, policy-driven administration”, mentioned chief know-how officer Rob Lee (pictured above).

The best way Pure executives introduced EDC is that it gives “higher-level ideas” in storage administration that can enable prospects to concentrate on enterprise outcomes somewhat than managing infrastructure. So, as a substitute of directors having to handle particular person arrays and to provision storage at a really granular degree – configuring volumes on a particular array for particular utility necessities – that will probably be outdated by workload-focused outcomes.

“If we take a look at lots of the challenges we see prospects grappling with as we speak, it boils all the way down to lots of the weather that actually are legacy,” mentioned Lee. “Issues like having to do lots of guide administration, driving inefficiency, having to handle tons of particular person silos that aren’t making maximal use of the assets that you’ve on the bottom.”

He continued: “We’ve received a possibility to take a few of these classes from the buyer world, take among the classes from the general public cloud world, and produce these into the enterprise.”

In different phrases, prospects received’t have to specify storage administration exercise step-by-step, however will enable the system to determine the main points. This, in flip, will enable larger visibility and management over knowledge for the organisation.

“I can remodel how I take into consideration, handle, catalogue my datasets, and take into consideration what knowledge I’ve sitting the place, for what goal, the place it got here from, how it’s secured, what insurance policies are supplied for it, and so forth,” mentioned Lee. “Proper now, with too many knowledge footprints, these are questions that may’t even be answered as a result of folks don’t have a very good deal with on what knowledge is sitting the place.”

EDC will enable IT organisations to supply storage from on-premise and cloud capability. It won’t be able to immediately embody storage capability from third events, though it can speak to different suppliers’ storage provisions through utility workload templates which are one other key a part of the EDC announcement.

Pure has mentioned it can ship 1000’s of orchestrated workflows for particular purposes. These join the Pure atmosphere to third-party purposes, equivalent to Cisco, VMware, ServiceNow and Slack. Pure executives time period these “recipes” that prospects can construct for particular purposes, with wider collections, or “menus”, potential for a number of purposes and workloads. It additionally expects that prospects will write their very own or get them from third events.

Moreover, Pure has partnered with knowledge safety supplier Rubrik, the place the latter’s cyber monitoring functionality triggers Pure snapshots to provide the newest potential snapshot previous to an infection by ransomware or the like.

Final yr, Pure introduced AI Copilot, which allowed prospects to work together with their storage on the fleet degree and ask questions on it in pure language. That went from beta to common availability at this yr’s occasion.

Additionally final yr, Pure launched Pure Defend, which provides catastrophe restoration as a service. Then it provided restoration to the Amazon Net Companies (AWS) cloud. At this yr’s occasion, it introduced that prospects would have the ability to get better VMware environments to a second VMware deployment.