Pure Storage introduces External Block Storage for Azure VMware Solution
Pure Storage announced the first generally available external block storage for Microsoft’s Azure VMware Solution to improve total cost of ownership (TCO) for VMware workloads in Azure. For customers with storage-intensive VMware workloads, Pure Cloud Block Store provides the flexibility to match their Azure VMware Solution compute needs with their storage capacity needs – optimizing their spend in the cloud.
Microsoft’s Azure VMware Solution allows customers to move or extend VMware-based workloads from on-premises data centers to Azure. Yet, some existing storage-intensive VMware workloads can be cost prohibitive to move.
Pure Storage’s solution helps bridge this gap, allowing customers to optimize their storage footprint and spend on Azure VMware Solution, unblocking VMware migrations to Azure, and bringing the on-premises VMware experience that customers have relied on for decades to the public cloud.
Pure Cloud Block Store for Azure VMware Solution provides customers with the following benefits:
Better Efficiency and Cost Optimization in the Cloud: Pure Cloud Block Store decouples storage and compute resources, allowing customers to scale storage capacity independently of compute nodes. Pure Storage also brings sophisticated data reduction with deduplication, compression, and pattern removal to the cloud. That, along with thin provisioning, ensures efficient, optimized storage.
One Pure Storage customer, a leading US-based beverage manufacturer, projects they will optimize their costs by 50% with Pure Cloud Block Store for Azure VMware Solution. And it will enable them to deploy a complete disaster recovery solution for their on-premises VMware workloads.
Unblocking VMware Migrations to Azure VMware Solution: With the ability to decouple storage and compute resources, customers can move VMware workloads to Azure VMware Solution that may have been cost-prohibitive to migrate in the past. This allows them to take advantage of the benefits of Azure VMware Solution, without overextending costs.
Another Pure Strorage customer is planning to use Pure Cloud Block Store for Azure VMware Solution to move VMware workloads with over 500TiB of storage to Azure. They chose this joint solution because it will accelerate their migration plans while effectively managing costs. They estimate approximately 50% savings once these workloads are migrated.
Enabling Hybrid Deployments and Data Mobility: Customers can realize true data mobility and create a hybrid VMware deployment when they use Pure Storage both on premises and on Azure. Pure Storage customers can leverage their Evergreen//One subscription to relocate capacity from on-premises FlashArray systems to Pure Cloud Block Store in Azure as needed.
A national healthcare organization chose Pure Cloud Block Store for Azure VMware Solution for disaster recovery. Being an existing Pure Storage customer, they knew they would get the same features from using FlashArray on premises. Using Pure Cloud Block Store for Azure VMware Solution will allow them to replicate the data while reducing the necessary number of compute nodes until needed for a disaster recovery event. This solution will provide them truly on-demand, scalable disaster recovery.
“Pure Cloud Block Store for Azure VMware Solution is a tangible result from the expanded partnership between Pure Storage and Microsoft. Pure Storage and Microsoft co-engineered automated integrations to ensure storage is correctly provisioned to a customer’s Azure VMware Solution environment, ensuring consistent management without any additional tuning. We are excited to bring this solution to our customers in the region,” said Nathan Hall, Vice President, Asia Pacific & Japan, Pure Storage.
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