Pure Storage has announced its external block storage for Microsoft’s Azure VMware Solution that lowers total cost of ownership for VMware workloads in Azure.
Pure Cloud Block Store provides enterprises with storage-intensive VMware workloads the flexibility to align their Azure VMware Solution compute needs with their storage capacity needs. This alignment is expected to optimise their cloud expenditure.
As enterprises accelerate their cloud adoption, many are looking to migrate all or parts of their VMware environments to the cloud. A significant portion of these environments consume block-based storage.
However, these enterprises often face challenges due to inconsistent storage layer management compared to their on-premises deployment. There is also a growing need to scale compute and storage independently to keep pace with data growth.
Microsoft’s Azure VMware Solution lets enterprises move or extend VMware-based workloads from on-premises data centres to Azure. However, migrating some existing storage-intensive VMware workloads can be cost-prohibitive.
Pure Storage’s solution bridges this gap by allowing enterprises to optimise their storage footprint and expenditure on Azure VMware Solution, thereby facilitating VMware migrations to Azure.
“Pure Storage and Microsoft co-engineered automated integrations to ensure storage is correctly provisioned to a customer’s Azure VMware Solution environment, ensuring consistent management without any additional tuning,” said Nathan Hall (top), Vice President of Asia Pacific & Japan at Pure Storage.
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