Pure Storage (PSTG) Expands Collaboration With Microsoft
Pure Storage PSTG recently announced that it had expanded its collaboration with Microsoft. This expansion will enable the integration of PSTG’s storage capabilities to Microsoft Azure services (through Azure's new Premium SSD v2) and introduced them to Azure VMware Solution (AVS) in Preview.
Businesses are facing challenges to migrate their VMware environments (which require block-based storage) to cloud mostly due to varying storage layer management and scale-on-demand for compute and storage relative to data growth. The integration of Pure Cloud Block Store with AVS addresses these particular issues, noted PSTG.
PSTG further added that Pure Cloud Block Store for AVS is now in preview in 16 Azure regions globally. The integration will aid clients to lower costs. Businesses can achieve a high data reduction ratio on VMware workloads in Azure by leveraging Pure Storage's compression and “deduplication” technology.
Users can easily migrate their applications to the cloud environment without any trade-offs in capabilities. Pure Storage capabilities on Azure will also allow to scale storage and compute based on requirements of the organization, noted PSTG. Businesses will be able to implement better tracking, management, deployment and execute steady multi-cloud governance for their data by utilziing the same data management platform for both cloud and on-premises environment.
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Further, clients will gain access to data protection capabilities in Purity such as near-zero RPO ActiveDR, zero-RPO ActiveCluster, and Purity CloudSnap to maintain high levels of protection at all times and at the right place.
Further, Pure Storage boasts high availability and cloud replication capabilities. These functionalities help in enabling disaster recovery targets on AVS which can be configured with nominal compute and storage.
The collaboration with Microsoft will bode well as cloud adoption is gaining tremendous momentum. According to a Gartner report, worldwide public cloud spending is expected to increase 20.7% to $591.8 billion in 2023 compared with $490.3 billion in 2022.
At present, Pure Storage carries a Zacks Rank #2 (Buy). Shares have gained 26% compared with the sub industry’s growth of 26.1%.
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