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Pure Storage brings hyperscale
architecture to the enterprise
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Pure delivers NVMe-oF RoCE with DirectFlash Fabric to
help enterprises unify cloud.
P
ure Storage has announced it has
added powerful new DirectFlash Fabric
capability for end-to-end NVMe and
NVMe-oF support in Purity 5.2, the software-
defined engine of its FlashArray//X products.
The new capability further extends Pure’s
moves to empower customers to approach
hybrid cloud with a new level of unified
infrastructure – to run apps anywhere and
protect data everywhere.
DirectFlash Fabric enables customers to
improve performance of enterprise mission
critical applications as well as new web-scale
applications that traditionally have relied on
direct attached storage.
With this announcement, Pure becomes the
first mainstream enterprise storage provider
to widely support NVMe-oF RoCE, which
enables enterprises to get flash media closer
to applications for more real-time access and
greater consolidation.
Modern enterprises are challenged to deliver
innovations and services that can keep up
with a constantly fast-moving society – with
no downtime allowed. According to Google,
53% of mobile users will leave a site that
takes over three seconds to load.
Applications must be available and
accessible at all times. To provide a
consistently amazing user experience,
enterprises must cost-efficiently support
widespread deployment of applications that
span clouds, break free of silos and drive the
benefits of an innovation platform, both in
the cloud and on-premises.
“The future is delivering applications and
services at the speed of thought,” said
Chadd Kenney, Vice President of Product
and Solutions, Pure Storage. “To do this,
applications can no longer live within barriers,
they must interact, intercommunicate and
share datasets in real-time. Architectures
must converge and break down the barriers
that exist today. DirectFlash Fabric is a key
component for helping enterprises unify SAN,
DAS and cloud.”
DirectFlash Fabric delivers massive
optimisation between storage controllers
and hosts over fast networking and makes
Ethernet a first-class citizen in the data
centre for storage.
Chadd Kenney, Vice President of Product
and Solutions, Pure Storage
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Other solutions today may not have full
enterprise features enabled or may utilise
NVMe over Fabrics with Fibre Channel
rather than RDMA over converged
Ethernet (RoCE), which offers the biggest
potential jump in performance for Ethernet
customers with a 50% latency reduction
compared to iSCSI.
With the new capability, Pure is
extending its DirectFlash technologies
to Non-Volatile Memory Express (NVMe)
over Fabrics to enable increased efficiencies
across the network, in particular with
Red Hat Enterprise Linux and cloud-native,
web-scale applications such as MongoDB,
Cassandra and MariaDB get the benefits
and efficiencies of enterprise grade
shared storage.
FlashArray//X supports end-to-end
NVMe on 25G and 50G Ethernet ports.
Interoperability with NVMe-oF-capable
NICs is available or planned from
Broadcom, Cisco, Marvell and Mellanox.
“As organisations undergo Digital
Transformation and become more
dependent on data and the ability to turn
that data into compelling business insights, it
is also driving a need to transform enterprise
storage infrastructure to deliver better
performance, availability and efficiency,”
said Eric Burgener, Research Vice President,
Infrastructure Systems, Platforms and
Technologies Group, IDC.
“NVMe technology will be at the core of that
shift, and vendors like Pure Storage that can
deliver true enterprise storage capabilities
along with NVMe performance today give
their customers the right infrastructure to
build on for the future.” n
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