EDITOR ’ S COMMENT
WHAT ISSUES ARISE WITH ENTERPRISE STORAGE MANAGEMENT AND WHICH SOLUTIONS DO YOU USE / OFFER TO ADDRESS THESE ISSUES ?
PATRICK SMITH , EMEA FIELD CTO , PURE STORAGE
Enterprise storage infrastructure has traditionally been very complex when it comes to managing growth . Storage administrators often have to search through many data sets to identify demand and project the always-growing needs of their organisations . In most cases , they don ’ t have enough data or they ’ re unable to gain the insights needed to make accurate projections . As a result , their infrastructure plans may be too conservative ( overprovisioning ) or too aggressive ( underprovisioning ), which can result in wasted resources – including money – or expensive downtime .
This is where Pure1 comes in . Pure1 is a cloudbased data management platform . It allows you to manage your IT infrastructure in the cloud and provides predictive intelligence . Pure1 Meta , an Artificial Intelligence and Machine Learning engine built into Pure1 , helps you plan for the future and quickly resolve issues with confidence .
Mobile first
Technology moves quickly . As an infrastructure manager , you never know when an issue will arise and require a trip to the data centre . It ’ s inconvenient and interferes with your personal time . Pure Storage was the first to solve this problem with Pure1 , which provides cloud-based , AI-driven storage management . With Pure1 , you can monitor , analyse and optimise your storage infrastructure effortlessly from anywhere in the world , on any device .
Proactive and predictive
Pure1 offers industry-first and industry-leading proactive support , including continuous monitoring of infrastructure , service level agreements ( SLAs ) and subscriptions , plus proactive issue resolution . The result : You save valuable time and resources . It ’ s all available through the Pure1 mobile app for which you can customise alerts and set up control of remote sessions .
Innovative solutions should be both predictive and proactive to help you solve your storage and business problems . To achieve this requires a layer of intelligence that works with your data , as well as aggregated data from 19,000 + cloud-connected Pure arrays , to create insights and recommendations . Processing more than one trillion data points per day , Pure1 Meta uses AI and ML to help forecast your application and storage infrastructure needs .
Use the Pure1 Workload Planner to simulate new application deployment , hardware upgrades and workload changes . With it , you can scale and optimally place workloads depending on your exact needs . Pure1 also helps you resolve problems more quickly . Its full-stack analytics provide an end-to-end view of capacity and performance for your entire infrastructure stack up to each virtual machine .
Storage as a utility
Pure1 puts information about your storage subscriptions at your fingertips . View what ’ s in use , receive alerts and manage subscriptions , including capacity reservations and expirations . This means you ’ re never blindsided by usage and will know before you hit critical reservation or expiration deadlines .
Cloud-based and API-driven
With Pure1 , you get the ease of use of cloud management in your on-premises storage , plus a cloud-based Software-as-a-Service platform . That means you don ’ t have to install any additional hardware or software on-premises . With an API-first design , you can also easily integrate Pure1 data into your existing tools for automated workflows and reporting .
No matter where you are , you can get alerts and grant Pure Storage access to take care of any issues . Pure1 provides the power of an entire IT team at your fingertips and global visibility from anywhere . And just like that , you can now focus on managing your business while Pure1 manages your storage .
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