Pure Storage Delivers Critical Cyber Outcomes
“We don’t have storage problems. We have outcome problems.” - Pure customer in a recent cyber briefing No matter what we are buying, what we are buying is a desired outcome. If you buy a car, you are buying some sort of outcome or multiple outcomes. Point A to Point B, comfort, dependability, seat heaters, or if you are like me, a real, live Florida Man, seat coolers! The same is true when solving for cyber outcomes, and often overlooked is a storage foundation to drive cyber resilience. A strong storage foundation improves data security, resilience and recovery. With these characteristics, organizations can recover in hours vs. days. Here are some top cyber resilience outcomes Pure Storage is delivering. Native, Layered Resilience Fast Analytics Rapid Restore Enhanced Visibility We will tackle all of these in this blog space (multi-part post alert!), but let’s start with the native, layered resilience Pure provides customers. Layered Resilience refers to a comprehensive approach to ensuring data protection and recovery through multiple layers of security and redundancy. This architecture is designed to provide robust protection against data loss, corruption, and cyber threats, ensuring business continuity and rapid recovery in the event of a disaster. Why is layered resilience important? Different data needs different protection. My photo collection, while important to me, doesn’t require the same level of protection as critical application data needed to keep the company running. Layered resilience indicates that there needs to be different layers of resilience and recovery. Super critical data needs super critical recovery. We are referring to the applications that are the life-blood of organizations, order processing, patient services or trading applications. These may only account for 5% of your data, but drive 95% of the revenue. Many organizations protect these with high availability which provides excellent resilience against disasters and system outages. But for malicious events, such as ransomware, protection is needed to ensure that recoverable data is available if an attack corrupts or destroys the production data. Scheduled snapshots can protect that data from the time the data is born. Little baby data. Protect the baby! Pure Snapshots are a critical feature, providing efficient, zero-footprint copies of data that can be quickly created and restored, ensuring data protection and business continuity. Pure snapshots are optimized for data reduction, ensuring minimal space consumption. This is achieved through global data reduction technologies that compress and deduplicate data, making snapshots space-efficient. They are designed to be simple and flexible, with zero performance overhead and the ability to create tens of thousands of snapshots instantly. They are also integrated with Pure1 (part of our Enhanced Visibility discussion) for enhanced visibility, management and security, reducing the need for complex orchestration and manual intervention. Snapshots can be used to create new volumes with full capabilities, allowing for mounting, reading, writing, and further snapshotting without dependencies on one another. This flexibility supports various use cases, including point-in-time restores and data recovery. In events that require clean recovery, and secure recovery at that, it would be much more desirable to leverage snapshots for recovery, where you could scan and determine cleanliness and safeness, often in parallel efforts and the reset time for going to an earlier period of time is a matter of seconds rather than days. But not even these amazing local snapshots are enough. What if your local site is rendered unavailable for some reason? Do you have control of your data to be able to recover in that scenario? Replicating those local snapshots to a second site could enable more flexibility in recovery. We have had customers leverage our High Availability solution (ActiveCluster) across sites and then engage snapshots and asynchronous replication to a third site as a part of their recovery plan. Data that requires extended retention and granularity is typically handled by a data control plane application that will stream a backup copy to a repository. This is usually a last line of defense in case of an event, as the recovery time objective is longer when considering a streaming recovery of 50%, 75%, or 100% of a data center. Still, this is a layer of resiliency that a comprehensive plan should account for. And if these repositories are on Pure Storage, these also can be protected by SafeMode methodologies and other security measures such as Object Lock API, Freeze Locked Objects, and WORM compliance. And most importantly, this last line of defense can be supercharged for recovery by the predictable, performant platform Pure provides. Some outcomes of this layer of resilience involves Isolated Recovery Environments to incorporate even security and create those Clean Rooms to isolate recovery to ensure you will not re-introduce the event origin back into production. In these solutions, the speed benefits that Pure provides is critical to making these designs a reality. Of course, the final frontier is the archive layer. This is a part of the plan that usually falls into compliance SLA, where data is required to be maintained for longer periods of time. Still, more and more, there are performance and warm data requirements for even these data sets, where AI and other queries can benefit from even the oldest of data. One never knows what layer of resilience is required for any single event. Having the best possible resilience enables any company to recover, and recover quickly, from an attack. But native resilience is just one of the outcomes we deliver. Come back to read how we are delivering fast analytics outcomes in an environment that seeks to discover anomalies as fast as possible. Exit Question: How resilient is your data today? Jason Walker is a technical strategy director for cyber related areas at Pure Storage and a real, live, Florida Man. No animals or humans were injured in the creation of this post.
FlashCrew London & Glasgow May/June 2025 !!!! Register NOW...
I'd like to invite you to our upcoming FlashCrew Customer User Group in London on May 15th, from midday. Throughout May, we'll be taking our FlashCrew User Group on the road to share ideas, best practices and network on all things Pure over some drinks and food. Plus, as a thank you for your continued support and attendance we will of course have the latest FlashCrew branded gifts for you to take with you! If you can make it, please register at this link below. London 10-11 Carlton House Terrace Thursday 15th May: REGISTER HERE for FLASHCREW LONDON Glasgow Radisson Blu Hotel Thursday 5th June: REGISTER HERE for FLASHCREW GLASGOW These are user group meetings, targeted at a technical audience across Pure's existing customers. Not only will you hear the latest news on the Pure Enterprise Data Cloud, but will also get to network with other like-minded users and exchange ideas and experiences. Agenda: 12:00 - 12:50 Arrival, Lunch and Welcome 13:00 - 14:00 Pure Platform: Features and Roadmap: with demo 14:00 - 14:15 Break 14:15 - 14:45 SQL Databases and Pure 14:45 - 15:15 Voice of the Customer 15:15 - 15:30 Break 15:30 - 16:15 Portworx and the Enterprise Data Cloud 16:15 - 16:45 Modern Virtualisation 16:45 - 17:00 Open Floor Q&A, Raffle, Wrap Up 17:00 - 19:00 Drinks and NetworkingGeneral Availability of Purity//FB 4.5.6
We are excited to announce the general availability of Purity//FB 4.5.6 Purity 4.5.6 Release Highlights Introducing Purity//FB 4.5.6, designed to simplify managing a fleet of systems, optimize geographically distributed workflows, and expand the environments that can deploy FlashBlade. Key highlights include: Fusion for FlashBlade: Support for FlashBlade is available now on Pure Fusion, enabling FlashBlade to create, or join a fleet of arrays, simplifying deployments, scaling, and management of data across both FlashArrays and FlashBlades. Pure Fusion now also delivers a single consistent interface for deploying file and object workloads. Rapid Replicas: The remote fetching and caching capability enables file data to be distributed efficiently and allows collaborative development across multiple Data centers, remote sites or, increasingly, workloads in the cloud. QoS ceiling for File System: Purity//FB adds support for creating custom QoS policies defining ceiling limits for IOPS and bandwidth per filesystem. Storage administrators can leverage QoS ceiling to ensure predictable performance and mitigate resource contention. Legal Hold support for File System: Allows users to apply legal hold on files, folders and sub-folders. Once applied the file/folder can’t be deleted by the user until the legal hold is removed. This capability supports compliance for enterprises in regulated industries by providing mandatory legal hold capabilities for files and folders. 18.6TB QLC DFM Support for S100: provides lower entry-point (130TB raw) for customers to experience the power and goodness of FlashBlade//S and also provides heterogeneous expansion capability on //S100 systems with 18.6TB and 37.5TB DFMs. FlashBlade//S500 with NVIDIA DGX SuperPOD: Purity//FB 4.5.6 introduces the integration of FlashBlade with NVIDIA DGX SuperPOD to provide a high-performance, scalable solution for AI and other high-performance computing applications. Object Secure Token Service: Secure Token Services helps FlashBlade to integrate with Single Sign ON (SSO) architectures (Federated Identity models). It simplifies management of user and group access to FlashBlade resources like buckets and objects. Increased Object Account and Bucket Scale: Scalability in FlashBlade Object storage is enhanced with the latest release. FlashBlade will be able to support up to 30K replication relations and up to 5K remote credentials while setting up replication. Object Active-Active Replication: Beginning with Purity//FB 4.5.6, Active-Active Replication between multi-site writable buckets is now Generally Available. No qualification document or approval for setting up replication is needed. However, active-active replication of classic buckets still requires PM approval. Please contact your Pure Storage Representative for assessment and approval for classic buckets. We recommend using multi-site writable buckets for all scenarios including single site deployments. Capacity Consolidation on FB//S & FB//E: provides support for upgrading smaller capacity DFMs to larger capacity DFMs in FlashBlade//S and FlashBlade//E systems. TLS Policy and Ciphers: TLS Policy allows customers to create and maintain custom TLS policies & Ciphers for FlashBlade network interfaces. TLS policy helps centralize management and controls for all inbound network traffic. The policy helps narrow down attack surface and vulnerability exploitation for transports over the network. Updates to Zero Move Tiering (ZMT): FlashBlade//ZMT system adds support for 1,2,3 and 4 DFM per blade configs in 1S:1E offering. New SKUs offer low starting capacity points for Hot storage class and large Cold archival storage. This indirectly improves TCO for customers with predictable performance and cost efficiency. ABE Support for File System: Access-based Enumeration (ABE) allows administrators to hide objects (files and folders) from users who don’t have permissions (Read or List) on a network shared folder in order to access them. MMC Support for File System: Administrators can now go into Microsoft Management Console (MMC) to list open inaccessible files and choose to close them. The full list of new features and enhancements can be found in the Purity//FB 4.5.6 Release Notes.Accelerate Breakout Replay: Optimizing Unstructured Data with Advanced Workflow Management
Learn how Pure Fusion™, Zero Move Tiering, and Rapid Replicas help manage and scale unstructured data while reducing complexity. Speakers: Amrita Das Hari Kannan https://www.purestorage.com/video/webinars/optimizing-unstructured-data-with-advanced-workflow-management/6375798474112.html
Boston Meetup - July 15, 2025 Trillium - Fort Point
Hey everyone, I want to let you all know we have scheduled a Boston Meetup for July 15, 2025 at Trillium - Fort Point in the seaport. You can view the meetup details at the following link: Join Pure Storage over a Pint at Trillium - Fort Point I hope to see you there!Pure Storage FlashBlade//S 100 Now Veeam Ready. Because Backups Deserve Better
Good news: Pure Storage has expanded our presence in the Veeam Ready database with two brand-new validations! 🎉 In addition to our existing platforms that already have Veeam Ready validations, FlashBlade//S 100 is now officially validated for both Repository and Object with Immutability use cases, solidifying our position as a trusted, high-performance platform for cyber resilience. But what does that actually mean? And why should you care? Let’s break it down. Why Use Object for Backups? Backups used to be simple, you’d write them to tape or a local disk and hope for the best. But today’s environments are more complex, distributed, and under constant threat from ransomware. That’s where object storage steps in. Here’s why object storage is becoming the go-to for modern backup: Scalability: Object storage can handle petabytes of data like a champ. Need more capacity? Just add more objects, no forklift upgrades needed. Simplicity: Flat namespace, no file hierarchies, and built-in metadata = less complexity for your team. Immutability: This is the big one. With S3 Object Lock features, your backups become tamper-proof, which is exactly what you need when ransomware comes knocking. So, if you’re backing up with Veeam Data Platform and you’re not using object storage, it might be time for a rethink. Enter: FlashBlade//S 100 Now, let’s talk about the star of the show: FlashBlade//S 100. This isn’t just any storage system. It’s unified fast file and object storage on an all-flash platform. That means it’s built to handle file workloads and the massive throughput of object-based backup and recovery, all from the same system at the same time. Here’s what sets it apart: 🚀 Performance: All-flash speed coupled with Pure’s ultra-fast object protocol mean backups complete faster and, as those backup datasets grow ever larger, that speed becomes essential for meeting tight recovery time objectives (RTOs). Traditional disk just can’t keep up when seconds count. 🧩 Unified access: File and object protocols on the same box? Yes, please. 🧱 Immutability built in: Ransomware can’t touch what it can’t change. FlashBlade//S supports object lock natively. 🔒 Enterprise security: End-to-end encryption, multi-tenancy, and API-driven operations come standard. 📈 Simple to scale: Whether you’re starting small or scaling up for multi-petabyte archives, FlashBlade’s scale out architecture lets you grow and non-disruptive upgrades from FlashBlade//S100 to FlashBlade//S200 or FlashBlade//S500, ensure continued investment protection and scalability It’s not just storage. It’s a future-ready data platform for backup, recovery, and beyond. So...What Is the Veeam Ready Program? The Veeam Ready Program is a qualification process designed to help Veeam’s technology partners (like us!) prove that their solutions actually work with Veeam Backup & Replication™. Think of it as Veeam’s stamp of approval. A way to separate the real-deal backup solutions from the “trust us, it works” crowd. Pure Storage already had Veeam ready validations but the new FB//S100 is designed for entry-level enterprise use cases. These new validations give customers the confidence that no matter what size their workloads are, whether it’s tens of Terabytes in a remote/branch office or multiple petabytes in the datacentre, Pure and Veeam have a solution that’s already been validated. ✅ Veeam Ready - Repository 🔗View Listing (Veeam Ready - Repository Certification) FlashBlade//S 100 passed Veeam’s tests as a primary backup repository. It’s fast, reliable, and perfect for ingest-heavy workloads, synthetic fulls, and instant recoveries. ✅ Veeam Ready - Object with Immutability 🔗View Listing (Veeam Ready - Object with Immutability Certification) This certifies FlashBlade//S as a Veeam-compatible object target, complete with immutability support. Use it for long-term retention and ensure your data is locked down and protected. Ready to Modernize Your Backups? Whether you’re dealing with backup sprawl, tightening your ransomware defenses, or just tired of slow recoveries, the Veeam + Pure Storage combo is ready for you. ✔️ Veeam Ready ✔️ Flash performance ✔️ Object immutability ✔️ Future-proof architecture What’s not to love? Let’s build something better. For your backups and your business.Glasgow FlashCrew Materials 5th June 2025
Hello All, Please find the presentations from the Glasgow FlashCrew - SDM_Pure Support June2025 Pure Platform - Features and Roadmap Update June2025 Protecting SQL Server Databases with Pure Storage Snapshots From Bottleneck to Breakthrough - A Storage Admin’s Journey to NVMe FlashArray File Services Thanks BrianDefend Against File Data Migrations
Why Attend? Migrations are complex, costly, and disruptive—but they don’t have to be. Learn how to eliminate file data migration headaches with Pure Storage’s unified architecture, automation, and non-disruptive upgrades. Agenda Highlights: Real-world migration pain points Solutions with Pure Storage FlashBlade & FlashArray Komprise SaaS overview How to defend against migrations with Evergreen architecture Customer case study: zero disruption, major savings BONUS: Self-defense & bleeding control training with The Defense Lab Training LLC Drinks, appetizers, and networking at The Federal Galley Prizes to drive collaboration Space is extremely limited. Reserve your spot today for this informative (and fun!) afternoon. Register Here - https://form.jotform.com/251527339799978 We hope to see you there!
