Pure Storage Extends VMware Integration with New Solutions to Accelerate Private Clouds

Pure Storage Extends
VMware Integration with New Solutions to Accelerate Private Clouds

Pure Delivers Support
for VMware vSphere Metro Storage Cluster, vSphere Virtual Volumes, and a new Validated
Design – Certified Partner Architecture

MOUNTAIN VIEW, Calif.
— January 30, 2018 — Pure Storage (NYSE: PSTG), the market’s leading
independent all-flash data platform vendor, announced the company’s extended
collaboration with VMware to enable mutual customers with the performance,
simplicity and resiliency needed for their cloud environments. The support for VMware
vSphere® Metro Storage Cluster, vSphere
Virtual Volumes™ and the VMware Validated Design™ provides more options for mutual customers
to help them effortlessly achieve always-on operations, increased per-VM
control, and ease of deployment of their private cloud.

“We are excited to
have Pure Storage, a leader in all-flash systems, in our Certified Partner
Architecture program. Together we can help our mutual customers accelerate IT
modernization with integrations for better manageability, availability and a
software-defined data center approach to the private cloud. All powered by a high-performance
storage solution to run and consolidate key mission-critical applications,”
said John Gilmartin, Vice President and General Manager, Integrated Systems
Business Unit, VMware. “Through these efforts, organizations can realize
simplicity and reliability in an agile and validated architecture.”

Attain Always-On Operations with
Stretch Cluster

Pure’s all-inclusive
software, Purity 5.0, now includes support for ActiveCluster, an active/active synchronous
replication and multi-site stretch cluster solution, that easily delivers zero
RPO and zero RTO across racks, data centers or metro regions at no extra cost.
Adding ActiveCluster to a FlashArray configuration is achieved with a
non-disruptive software update. Support with vSphere Metro Storage Cluster ensures an end-to-end highly available virtualized
environment to support Tier 1, mission-critical applications. To date, conventional
synchronous replication and stretch cluster solutions have been complex and
costly, with setups ranging from days to weeks and involving hundreds of pages
of manuals. Additionally, the license fees, external gateways, and the frequent
need for outside professional services added to the pain and expense. With
ActiveCluster, these obstacles have been eliminated with only four steps to
complete set up, one new command and no customer owned 3rd site mediator
required to deliver true business continuity.

Achieve Effortless Control Per-VM

Pure also now offers
support for VMware vSphere® Virtual Volumes™ 2.0. Customers virtualized on VMware can now get per-VM
granular mapping to the FlashArray, which helps assure per-VM service level
agreements, simplifies per-VM management and gains per-VM portability. In
addition to enabling compliance, VMware vSphere Virtual Volumes on FlashArray
utilizes storage policy-based management to automate provisioning of VMs and
align application requirements to available FlashArray data services including
highly efficient snapshots and replication. This streamlines operations and
empowers the VMware administrators to gain more control with less dependency on
the storage team.

Deploy a Private Cloud with Confidence

Pure achieved
certification of its VMware Validated Design for Software Defined Data Center in the VMware Certified
Partner Architecture program. Pure and VMware jointly tested and validated an
architecture that enables mutual customers to build a scalable SDDC that automates
IT and empowers developers with self-service infrastructure, so that IT can
accelerate the delivery of essential applications on a private cloud. The
VMware Validated Design certified for Pure consists of VMware vSphere, NSX™, vRealize® and Pure FlashArray.

These solutions are
all supported by a proven all-flash platform from Pure Storage that delivers
industry-leading data reduction, encryption for all data, consistent sub-ms
latency, 99.9999% availability, non-disruptive upgrades, predictive analytics
and an Evergreen Storage ownership model.

“We are extremely
excited about the results of our collaboration efforts with VMware over the
years. Our Pure Storage on VMware SDDC reference architecture, along with
support for Virtual Volumes and vSphere Metro Storage Cluster offers customers
access to a simple, all-flash storage platform that delivers reliability,
simplicity, efficiency and access to continuous innovation,” said Rajiev
Rajavasireddy, VP of Solutions, Pure Storage. “Our partnership with VMware
allows us to combine best of breed technologies to deliver a worry-free
comprehensive private cloud.”

Visit Pure Storage ActiveCluster and for VMware vSphere Virtual Volumes to learn more about these solutions
with VMware.

About Pure Storage

Pure Storage (NYSE:
PSTG) helps customers build a better world with data. The Pure Storage Data
Platform, powered by all-flash storage, offers a simpler, more effective, and
more flexible solution for cloud infrastructure and data-rich applications like
artificial intelligence, machine learning and big data analytics. With
Satmetrix-certified NPS performance in the top 1% of B2B companies, Pure has an
ever-expanding range of customers who are some of the happiest in the world.

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