Pure Storage has announced new capabilities in its platform, including the industry’s first generative AI copilot for storage.
This leverages data insights from tens of thousands of Pure Storage customers to guide storage teams through every step of investigating complex performance and management issues and staying ahead of security incidents.
At its flagship event, Pure Accelerate 2024, held in Las Vegas, Pure Storage also Pure Fusion
, which unifies arrays and optimises storage pools on the fly across structured and unstructured data, on-premises, and in the cloud.
Now fully embedded into the Purity operating environment designed to continually get better over time via non-disruptive upgrades, the next generation Pure Fusion will be available across the entire Pure Storage platform to all global customers.
“Pure is redefining enterprise storage with a single, unified data storage platform that can address virtually all enterprise storage needs including the most pressing challenges and opportunities IT leaders face today, like AI and cyber resilience. The Pure Storage platform delivers unparalleled consistency, resilience, and SLA-guaranteed data storage services, reducing costs and uncertainty in an increasingly complex business landscape.” – Charles Giancarlo, chairman and CEO, Pure Storage, said.
Also announced at Pure//Accelerate were new capabilities that advance Pure Storage’s existing cyber resiliency offerings, which include SafeMode for ransomware recovery:
- Enhanced Cyber Recovery and Resilience SLA: Building on the first-of-its-kind ransomware recovery SLA, Evergreen//One
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is expanding its coverage to include disaster recovery scenarios as well. This new and improved Cyber Recovery and Resilience SLA delivers a customized recovery plan, ships clean service infrastructure within a defined SLA, provides onsite installation, and supplies additional professional services for data transfer.
In addition, Pure Storage will collaborate with organizations to build and maintain a comprehensive cybersecurity strategy. Ongoing quarterly reviews are included to ensure best practices adherence, ongoing risk assessments, and operational security remediation. Organizations can rest assured knowing if an unforeseen disruptive event occurs, Pure Storage will help rapidly restore normal operations, guaranteed. - New Security Assessment: The new assessment provides deep visibility into fleet-level security risks and offers actionable recommendations to maximize cyber resilience. Based on aggregated intelligence across 10,000+ environments, the Security Assessment presents numerical scores from 0 to 5 to benchmark the security posture of the entire storage fleet.
It also delivers best practices to align with NIST 2.0 standards, advance regulatory compliance, remediate potential security anomalies, and rapidly restore operations if a security-related event occurs. Additionally, the new AI co-pilot leverages the security assessment to provide Chief Information Security Officers (CISOs) with the visibility into benchmarking their security posture against other Pure Storage customers. - New AI-Powered Anomaly Detection Enhancement: Discover threats such as ransomware attacks, unusual activity, malicious behavior, and Denial of Service attacks via performance anomalies. This expands on previously available ransomware detection based on data reduction anomalies. The expanded detection is built on multiple machine learning models running to identify unusual anomalous behavior.
The models analyze customer environments with historical data for anomalous patterns based on heuristics of performance as well as user context on how storage is used. Leveraging this capability, customers can identify the last known good snapshot copy to mitigate operational impact by quickly identifying recovery point targets to restore data, reducing risk and guesswork.
Pure Storage was among the first enterprise storage vendors to work with NVIDIA to achieve NVIDIA DGX BasePOD certification and NVIDIA OVX validation. Building upon this pioneering collaboration for AI-ready infrastructure, Pure expects to be a certified storage solution for NVIDIA DGX SuperPOD by the end of 2024.
