Pure Storage delivers native, unified block and file experience for flash storage

Pure Storage, which delivers advanced data storage technology and services, has announced the general availability of File Services for FlashArray, a storage service enabling organisations to access native block and file services from a single, global pool of storage resources. 

"This release will delight our customers in Asia Pacific & Japan and will convince new customers to seriously consider Pure as an option. This feature will help simplify the storage management for many organisations particularly those who have to manage a multitude of virtual machines. And most of our existing customers will be able to benefit with just a simple, non-disruptive, upgrade to the latest version of the Purity operating system," stated Pratyush Khare, VP, Systems Engineering, Asia Pacific & Japan.

According to the company, legacy multiprotocol block and file storage solutions have been around for decades, but have failed to deliver the flexibility and efficiency that unified arrays promised. Initially built for either a block or file use case, new protocols were bolted-on, significantly increasing management complexity with scale. Pure Storage rethought the unified storage experience and delivers a modern architecture where block and file are both native, first-class services instead.

“The legacy unified storage market has been held back by the inflexibility and cost of decades-old architectures. It’s time for a new way: We’re excited to introduce the first truly unified block and file storage platform, built from the ground up for modern simplicity and the ability to evolve with customers,” noted Shawn Hansen, VP & GM, FlashArray, Pure Storage.

A flexible global pool of storage resources eliminates the need for pre-planning storage growth, and a unified policy management system dramatically cuts administration time. Pure’s unified storage architecture enables customers to benefit from native block and file services where file, block, and virtual machines (VMs) are supported directly. Leveraging this type of platform reduces management time and improves total cost of ownership improvement over three years, according to analyst firm Enterprise Strategy Group (ESG).

"Through customer interviews, product walkthroughs and based on our broad view of the storage industry, we have found that Unified all-flash block and file storage from Pure Storage reduces complexity to manage block and file workloads by 62%, with a 58% lower total cost of ownership,” said Aviv Kaufmann, Practice Director and Principal Economic Validation Analyst, ESG. 

With the FlashArray Unified Block and File Platform, customers get:

Global storage pools

Pure Storage now delivers a flexible global storage pool that eliminates the complexity associated with data growth on legacy unified arrays. Before, administrators needed to pre-plan every storage update and request. Now, they can simply use what they need, across block and file, with non-disruptive expansion on the fly and unlimited file system sizes. 

Unified policy management

Pure Storage eliminates the multilayered management required by legacy storage platforms, giving administrators precise management of the specific storage service they want to deploy and control. By unifying policy management, all operations can be learned quickly and applied to everything, both block and file. 

VM-aware storage capabilities

VM-Aware Storage is an industry-first way to give deeper visibility for the virtual machine. The granular visibility and management Pure now brings to file is also available to VMs with VM-aware Storage. Administrators can natively manage VMs on FlashArray, including VM-level statistics, snapshots, quotas, and policies. 

Broad support for common use cases

Pure Storage supports all common use cases, including VMware and network file system (NFS) data stores, user directories and profiles, content repositories, data protection, and backup. 

“As data grows, organisations that rely on that data to conduct operations are constantly innovating to get more from that data while reducing cost of management. Reducing management points simplifies storage operations while increasing the value of the investment. But the true value comes when block and file storage resources are unified on a native platform without compromising one service for the other.

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